JELLICOES IN FIVE REIGNS.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 249, 20 October 1924, Page 9

JELLICOES IN FIVE REIGNS.

103 RD BIRTHDAY OF ADMIRALS AUNT. Miss Catherine Jane JcUiroe, Viscount Jellicoe's aunt, was 103 on Monday, says a recent issue of the "London Daily Chronicle." She lives in the top room of a tall old house in Portland Terrace, Southampton, with a view of the sea. She is frail, but in fairly good health, and is still able to write letters to her many relatives, including the youngest Of them, George Jellicoe. These two form an extraordinary link between the centuries. Miss .lellieoo y Was born when George IV. had been a year on the throne, and she was a girl of 16 when Queen Victoria began her long reini. George, the only .-on of Lord Jellicoe. wus l>orn ill 191. N. The Jellieoes are remarkable for their ] jongevitv. The Admiral's father died in 1914." at the age of 00; his brother, tho Rev. George Jellicoe, of Bassett, Southampton, i.i hale at !)4: a sister died at 90; and a cousin, Miss Grace WhalleySmith Gardiner, was 10"> when she died in 1921. Lord Jellicoe hi:_self at 05 is extraordinarily youthful. ■