THE
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SATURDAY,
NOVEMBER 14, 1936.
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PEER TO MARRY NURSE SACKED
BY WIFE
ORD KILBRACKEN, 59-year-old Irish peer and counsel to the Chairman of Committees, House of Lords, left London recently to meet and marry the pretty blonde Brighton nurse who was dismissed by his former wife, and for love of whom he went through the divorce courts 16 months ago.
Elizabeth Arden.
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ELIZABETH ARDEN does better
His bride-to-be, 31-year-old Miss Leonora Taylor, orphan and musician's daughter, is travelling in a liner specialist for a from Java to meet him. She is bringing with her a trousseau from the East.
They will meet in Marseilles and marry in the British Con- sulate there then go honeymooning in Italy.
Love that has stood the test of months of suparation by thousands of miles of acean is bringing them together again. OLD ETONIAN TIE
'
Lord Kilbracken, tall, distinguished and be-spectacled, wear- ing his old Etonian tie and a black Homburg, cheerful as schoolboy, told of his romance just before he left London.
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being
11e sad: "Yes, wo married quietly abroad, really didn't Want It known until we go back to England and made an at nouncement formally. But don't mind telling you:
"You know about it--don't you?- that I have been divorced and that she in the lady.
“Miss Tayler has been living in Java. We found we could not get along without one another. That is why we are being married. "We shall go 10, Italy after the wedding, sail be away until Parlin- ment reassembles,"
LORD NUFFIELD'S
CAREER
Started Business Life By Mending Bicycles ORIGINAL CAPITAL, £5
Lord Numeld. whose holding in Morris Motors is worth £17,000,000,
at a few shillings a began his business career by mend-
week.
Lord Kilbracken took from the centre of his desk a framed photo-ing bicycles graph of Miss Taylor.
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"That is the only photograph have of her," he said. "You will return 11 quickly, won't you? "yes, the former Lady Kilbracken and my three children know that I am marrying."
Lord Kilbracken, two overcoats over bla arm, hurried in a taxicab Molly to Waterloo to meet Miss
With 45 capital he started his awn eyele shop and made his own bicycles. He foresaw the future of motoring and began making moler- cycles, later switching over to car.
he made minc During the war xinkere,
When the car trade was in despair In 1920 over what seemed to be a flooded market and the other manu- Belchum, of Redicliffe Sq. SWfacturers put up prices to restrict who travelled with him to affend the wedding.
Miss Belchan packing to say:
interrupted her
Mr.
"I have known Miss Taylor for years. She is tiny, fair, and very,
Her father was very pretty, Percy Taylor, who used to conduct n well-known Brighton orchestra.
"She has known Lord Kilbracken for about nine years-met him when she was just over 20.
output, he cut prices and scooped the market.
To-day he has a weekly wage bill over 120,000 and his organisation has a 100,000 cars a year capacity. £2,500,000 GIVEN AWAY
As Britain's biggest philanthropist he is given away nearly £2.500,- 000, mainly for medical research hospitals and the welfare of children.
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Lori Numeld's contributions K!!-
hospitals and other Institutions in- clude:-
"She went to nurse Lady bracken. Yes, she loves him. She adures him. She had never really cared for a man until she met him. "The divorce distressed her very such a nice, sweet much. She is girl, slie hated all that. "She and Lord Kilbracken decided to part, thought it might be best. They parted good friends. She went about to Java, has lived there for six months with her brother, who le employed by a tobacco company.
letter "They wrote, arranged by to marry, because they found they rould not live without ene another. "They will Itve here-in-London at.
ut his Lord Kilbracken's flat and home in Ireland,"
There were smiles and handshakes and
cries of "Good luck!" for Lord Kilbrucken while he waited for the boat train to leave Waterloo's No. 11 platform for Southampton ut 2.20 of them B.in. Three women, one Miss Taylor's married sister, saw him off.
Miss Taylor's sister said: "Leonora is very much in love with Lord Kil- bracken, and they are going to be very happy. I am sure of that-and that is all that matters, isn't it?"
grinned Lord Kilbracken, excited, out of the earriage window and said:" She is coming from the East and I am sailing from the Weal to meet her!"
Radcliffe Infirmary, Ox-
ford
St. Thomas Hospital, Lon-
don
£140,000
£104,000
£ 72,000
L 70,000
St. Peter's Holl, Oxford Winfield Orthopedic
Hospital
£ 85,003 Guy's Hospital, London
£30,000 League of Industry Mount Vernon Hospital £20,000 Worcester Royal Infirmary £26,000 £ 52,000 New Birmingham Hospital
Centre
Empire
-£25,000
Voluntary
Hospitals Coventry Hospital Chair of Spanish, Oxford Bersial Association St. Peter's Hall, Oxford Motor and Cycle Trades
25,000 £15,000 £ 10,000 £ 10,000 £ 10,000
Children's Home...... £ 10,000 This year he gave a bonus of £10,- 000 to his workmen for holiday pay.
steamed
Kilbracken-and the train off for Southampton Docks.
When Lady (telen Montelth) K- brucken was granted a deerec nisi in the Divorce Court in June 1935, Her husband did not defend the suit.
Lady Kilbrucken, whose address was given as Abbey Itd, St. John's A handsome woman friend called, Wood, NW, said that her husband's "Good luck, Hugh, and every happi-altitude changed after she dismissed ness to you both," as she waved a nurse named Leonora Taylor and there was a mutual sepafution in Thanks-good-bye!" smiled Lord 1030.
good-bye.
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