Queen’s Champion Left £21,000
(Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, June 24. Captain John Dymoke, the 28-year-old Queen’s Champion, has been left £21,000. It was left to him in the will of Mrs Agness Eveline Wholey. a doctor’s widow from Eastbourne, who died last March leaving an estate of £22.000. Mrs Wholey said in her will: “I hope this will be of assistance to him in maintaining the dignity of the ancient office of Queen’s Champion.” The captain’s family have provided a’ Champion for reigning monarchs since the fourteenth century. Until the reign of George IV, the Champions. always rode on a white charger into Westminster Hall on Coronation days to challenge anyone who denied the sovereign’s right to the throne Captain Dymeke was at Queen Elizabeth’s coronation in 1953, but he walked, and carried a Union Jack.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27695, 27 June 1955, Page 11
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