Helen Vivien Beresford, Baroness Decies, formerly Helen Vivien Gould was an American socialite and philanthropist. She was one of the two Jay Gould descendants to marry into European aristocracy.
Lady Decies in 1919
Elizabeth Wharton Drexel
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Elizabeth de la Poer Beresford, Baroness Decies was an American author, philanthropist, and Manhattan socialite.
Helen Beresford, Baroness Decies
…Beresford (1915-1992) the 6th Baron Decies She died in February 1931 of jaundice and a heart attack in London. After her death, Lord Decies married Elizabeth Wharton Drexel, the daughter of Joseph William Drexel, on May 25, 1936. He died on 31 January 1944 at age 77…
A 1905 portrait of Drexel by Giovanni Boldini
Drexel and Henry Symes Lehr at their wedding in 1901
Drexel's first husband, John V. Dahlgren, c. 1897
Drexel in 1899