John Graham Hope Horsley de la Poer Beresford, 5th Baron Decies PC, styled The Hon. John Beresford until 1910, was an Anglo-Irish army officer, civil servant, and polo player in the 1900 Summer Olympi
Lord Decies in 1919
Lord Decies and his first wife, Helen, in 1911
Elizabeth Wharton Drexel
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Elizabeth de la Poer Beresford, Baroness Decies was an American author, philanthropist, and Manhattan socialite.
John Beresford, 5th Baron Decies
…Arthur George Marcus Douglas de la Poer Beresford, 6th Baron Decies (1915–1992). Lady Decies died on 3 February 1931, and following her death he married Elizabeth Wharton Drexel, the daughter of Joseph William Drexel, on 25 May 1936. Elizabeth had previously been married to Harry Lehr and John Vinton Dahlgren. Lord Decies filed…
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