Henry Bruce Meux

Meux was born in London, educated at Eton College and, from 1875 on, at Trinity College, Cambridge.{{Cite web |title=Henry Bruce Meux |url=https://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2018.pl?sur=Meux&suro=w&fir=Henry&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50 |access-date=2023-11-08 |website=oxforddnb.com}} He was commissioned as a captain of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry Cavalry in 1883{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H5AaAAAAMAAJ&q=Hart's+Annual+Army+List |title=Hart's Annual Army List, Militia List, and Imperial Yeomanry List |date=1897 |publisher=J. Murray. |language=en}} and was High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1886.{{London Gazette

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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.{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=074-lma4435&cid=1#1|title= Meux's Brewery Company Ltd |publisher=The National Archives |access-date=13 August 2020}} His share of the company capital was worth £224,000 in 1894 (which would be over £22 million in 2022).{{Cite news |title=Great Breweries and their Owners |date=28 December 1894 |work=The Cambrian |url=https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3340709/3340715/43/ |access-date=2023-11-23 |language=en}}

Meux had a considerable estate, including {{convert|9,200|acres}} on the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire.{{cite web |title=The auction sale of the Meux Estate |date=22 December 2016 |url=https://www.upperkennetnews.co.uk/the-auction-sale-of-the-meux-estate/ |access-date=13 August 2020 |publisher=Upper Kennet News}} He restored Vasterne Manor and, in 1889, Wooton Bassett Town Hall, both in Wiltshire.{{Cite web |date=1889 |title=Kelly's Directory of Wiltshire |url=https://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/123504/rec/1 |website=specialcollections.le.ac.uk |page=1057 |language=en}} He was a lifetime member{{Citation |last= |first= |title=The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine |date=1891 |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Wiltshire_archaeological_and_natural_history_magazine_(IA_wiltshirearchaeo2518godd).pdf |pages=V |access-date=2024-01-19 |publisher=Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society}} of the Wiltshire Archaeological Society, and was elected president of that society in 1893.{{Cite journal |last= |first= |date=1894 |title=Annual General Meeting, July 1893 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12683697 |journal=Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine |volume=27 |issue=81 |pages=196 |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library {{open access}}}}

He commissioned James Whistler to paint three portraits of his wife, Valerie, Lady Meux. 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.{{NHLE|num=1393844|desc=Temple Bar| |accessdate= 2012-04-18}}

Meux died childless in 1900, and his wife inherited his share of the brewery and his estate.{{cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-97881|title=Meux, Valerie Susie, Lady Meux|year=2007|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/97881|access-date=13 August 2020}}

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