LORD PLUNKET ENGAGED.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 245, 16 October 1922, Page 4

LORD PLUNKET ENGAGED.

A WEALTHY SOUTH AFKICAI, DAUGHTER OK FANNY WARD. (From Our Special Correspondent.) LONDON. August If. "Who's Who?" a tome .bat has been labelled the Journalists* Hible, seldom fall* into error, yet ii <\te* that in the I notice it gives to the present Lord iPlunket. now aetat _i. "Who's Who!" | records him as the son. instead of what he is, the grandson, ot the famous peer | who was Arehb.ehop of Dublin and Pri- | mate of Ireland. As ai! the Dominion knows, the late Lord llunket. father of J the present peer. \m.s not a clergyman, I but did good service as Governor of New I Zealand. | There is no need to elaborate on j young Lord Plnnket's family history j it is too well known —but of the bride to be New Zealand society will like to know something. She is Mrs. Jack Barnato, th_ only child of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lewis. Her father, a wealthy Transvaal mine-owner, became known as "Diamond Joe." while her mother before her marriage was Miss Fanny Ward, the petite American actress who scored a great euccess in "Lord and Lady Algy." Mrs. Barnato is one of the most beautiful uirls in society. On the day of her christening £50.000 was settled" on her, to accumulate until her coming of ageshe is now 22 —and her lather gave her a slice of .South African land of great potential value. Captain -lack Barnato died on October 26, 1918. in the last fortnight of the war. He was the elder -on of Mr. Barney | Barnato. and was educated at Chajter--1 house and Cambridge. He joined the Universities and Public Schools Corps as a private in 1914. He transferred to the R.N.A.S.. and was one of four airmen who bombed Constant. ' uople in April. 1916. His marriage to Miss Lewis when she was only 17 took place in October. 1917 and his death occurred a year later. He left his widow property worth £660,000.