Redshifts of the gravitational lenses MG 0414+0534 and MG 0751+2716

We report redshifts in two gravitational lens systems, MG 0414 + 0534 and MG 0751 + 2716. The lens galaxy in MG 0414 + 0534 lies at z(l) = 0.9584 +/- 0.0002. The luminosity and extreme red color of the lens are thus typical of a passively evolving early-type similar to 2L(*) galaxy. The galaxy cannot have a significant global mean extinction without being anomalously luminous. The lens galaxy in MG 0751 + 2716 has a redshift of z(l) = 0.3502 +/- 0.0003, and it is a member of a small group. The group includes the nearby bright companion galaxy whose redshift we confirmed to be z = 0.3501 +/- 0.0001 and a nearby emission-line galaxy with z = 0.3505 +/- 0.0003. A second emission-line galaxy with z = 0.5616 +/- 0.0001 was found nearly superposed on the first emission-line galaxy. The source in MG 0751 + 2716 is a z(s) = 3.200 +/- 0.001 radio quasar. For hat universes with Ohm(0) = 1.0 (0.3), 96% (87%) of lenses like MG 0414 + 0534 and 7% (3%) of lenses like MG 0751 + 2716 are expected to have lower lens redshifts than observed.