Shooting Injury To Peeress

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30677, 17 February 1965, Page 13

Shooting Injury To Peeress

(N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) PERTH (Scotland), February 16. Lady Lansdowne, American-born wife of the Marquess of Lansdowne, has been seriously wounded in a shooting accident at the Perth family estate, police reported today.

Lady Lansdowne, the former Miss Barbara Stuart Chase, underwent an emergency operation at the Perth Royal Infirmary after the accident and was listed as “seriously ill” last night. She is believed to have wounds in the chest and stomach.

Lord Lansdowne, former Minister of State for Colonial Affairs in the Conservative Government, refused comment on the shooting. “All I am saying is that my wife is in hospital,” he said today by telephone from Meiklour House, Blairgowrie. A spokesman at the infirmary said earlier she was rushed to the hospital following the stili-unexplained accident last Friday.

Lady Lansdowne, a noted markswoman, was the 1953 British clay pigeon shooting champion. The Perth Chief Constable,

Donald Mclnnes, said detectives were inquiring into the shooting, but the steps taken were “similar to those made into any shooting accident." Lord and Lady Lansdowne have been hosts to the Queen and Prince Philip at their Perth estate. The Lansdownes were married in 1938. Their eldest child, Lady Caroline PettyFitzmaurice, died at the age of 17 in the same hospital in 1956 following a shooting accident at their home. They have three other children.