Henry Bruce Meux

Sir Henry Bruce Meux, 3rd Baronet (pronounced "Mews") (21 November 1856 – 11 January 1900) was an English baronet, the son of Sir Henry Meux, 2nd Baronet (1817–1883), a brewer and politician.^[1]

Meux was born in London, educated at Eton College and, from 1875 on, at Trinity College, Cambridge.^[2] He became captain of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry Cavalry in 1883^[3] and was High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1886.^[4] From 1898 on, he was major.^[5]

Meux was joint-manager, with Dudley Marjoribanks, of the Westminster brewer Meux's Brewery Company Ltd which they registered as a public company in 1888.^[6] His share of the company capital was worth £224,000 in 1894 (which would be over £22 million in 2022).^[7]

Meux had a considerable estate, including 9,200 acres (3,700 ha) on the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire.^[8] He restored Vasterne Manor and, in 1889, Wooton Bassett Town Hall, both in Wiltshire.^[9] He was a lifetime member^[10] of the Wiltshire Archaeological Society, and was elected president of that society in 1893.^[11]

He commissioned James Whistler to paint three portraits of his wife, Valerie, Lady Meux.^[1] At Lady Meux's request, Henry purchased from the City of London the Temple Bar Gate, which they preserved at their Theobalds Park estate at Cheshunt in Hertfordshire.^[12]

Meux died childless in 1900, and his wife inherited his share of the brewery and his estate.^[13]

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