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 \pm 0.0002 .
The luminosity and extreme red color of the lens are then typical of a passively evolving , early-type , \sim 2 L _ { * } galaxy .
The galaxy can not 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 \pm 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 \pm 0.0001 and a nearby emission line galaxy with z = 0.3505 \pm 0.0003 .
A second emission line galaxy with z = 0.5216 \pm 0.0001 was found nearly superposed on the first emission line galaxy .
The source in MG 0751+2716 is a z _ { s } = 3.200 \pm 0.001 radio quasar .
For flat universes with \Omega _ { 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 . Subject headings : cosmology — distance scale — gravitational lensing — quasars : individual ( MG 0414+0435 , MG 0751+2716 )