OBITUARY

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27036, 11 May 1953, Page 2

OBITUARY

LADY SKELTON Many friends in Canterbury will learn with regret that Lady Skelton, wife of Admiral Sir Reginald Skelton, K.C.8., C.8.E., D 5.0.. died at Chichester. England, last Tuesday. Lady Skelton, who was the fourth daughter of the late Mr W. Devenish-Meares, spent her girlhood in Christchurch, where her family was very well known. In 1905 she married Engineer-Com-mander Skelton, who had been appointed to superintend the building of the Discovery for Captain R. F. Scott’s Antarctic expedition, and who served with Captain Scott as chief engineer of his expedition. In 1906 he joined the submarine service and served in many parts of the world. Admiral Sir Reginald Skelton and Lady Skelton had one son and two daughters. The elder daughter. Margaret. was married in 1933 to Dr. J. C. Hawkesley. physician at the University College Hospital and St Peter’s HosEital. London. Dr. Hawkesley, who is lean of the University College Hospital medical school and a Fellow of University College, London, served with the rank of Brigadier as consulting physician in the South-east Asia Command during the last World War. Lady Skelton revisited Christchurch some years ago. and renewed many friendships, as well as visiting her sister. Mrs E. J. Mirams. Beverley Hills, Timaru. and her uncle, the late Mr H. O. Devenish-Meares, of Fendalton. Her home in England was at Aldingbourne,