VILLAGE' CEREMONY

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 24, 29 January 1935, Page 15

VILLAGE' CEREMONY

LORD HEWART'S MARRIAGE

NEW ZEALAND BRIDE

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, January. 5. Only a day or two before thg event did the news leak out that Lord Howart, Lord Chief Justice of England, was to marry Miss Jean Stewart, of Wanganui, No official announcement was made. It was inevitable, therefore, there should bo some inventions to make-a romantic newspaper story. One of those inventions, or misunderstandings, was that Miss Stewart had nursed Lord Hewavt through an illness. This Lord Howart has publicly denied. 1 "She has certainly never nursed mo .in any illness," he said, "because I have not been ill recently, except in newspaper rumours, and according to people who want my job." A SIMPLE CEREMONY. , Tho marriage was a simple ceremony with the villagers, among whom Lord Howart lives, forming the majority of the congregation. Only a- few flower*-— fjomo remaining after tho Christmas services, and fresh ones added shortly bo-for-o the service—decorated the windows and chancel. , , Tho church, Lord Hewart's house, Garden Hill, and that of Sir. William Poat, where the bride Uaa been staying, are almost within, viow of ono another. Garden Hill, indeed,- is separated from the church only by. ' tho width of tho roadway. Lord Howart drove in a saloon car across to the church, accompanied by Sir llcrbert CunlifEe, K.C., chairman of the Bar Council, and former M.P. for Bolton, who was his best man. Little groups of villagers, who only that morning had learned that the .wedding was to tako place, woro waiting outside, and Lord Hewart greeted them! as he passed through tho lyckgato. He I was wearing morning dress, with a large carnation in his buttonhole. He I took his seat with the best man in tho front pew to the right of the aisleThe bride, who is a cousin- of that fine old Scotsman, Bir W. Peat, tho eminent accountant, had been aecustomecl to spend her off-duty from the school at Elstree, to which she had been attached for a considerable time, at Sir William's home at Totteridge, which adjoins the country home of Lord Hewart. They thus became well acquainted with one another. Sir William Peat gave away the bride, and his daughter, Mrs. .QUvier, was hostess for this interesting occasion. Miss Buth Winterton was in attendance upon the bride, who was tastefully dressed in a peach-colonred^gows and wore a hat of tho same shade NEW TORM OP MARRIAGE SERVICE. The service, which was short and simple, was by special-diocesan licence, and in accordance with the practice.at Totteridge parish church the new form of marriage service was used. The bridegroom repeated1 the" words: "All my worldly goods with thee I share," in placo of the old" '.'form: "With all my worldly goods I tbee endow;" and the word "obcy^ was omitTlio service was conducted by tho Bey. J. A. D. Pratt, vicar ..of- Tottoridge, assisted by the Bey." Basil Hardy, chaplain of Elstree Boys' College, with which Miss Stewart has been connected. . , On the register Lord Hewart was aeswibed as Gordon Hewart, of full age, a widower. His rank and profession were given as Baron Howart of. Bury, Lord Chief Justice of England, of. Gar. detf Hill, Totteridge. The-brida-was described ns Joan Stewart, Of ftjU'ttge, a spinster, of Elstree, Herts, and the daughter of James Reid'' Stewart, deceased, a chartored surveyor.. At tho conclusion of the service, the Darty (which includod Sir Jaincg.Parr) adjourned to Sir. W.-• Peat's., house, whore tho wedding breakfast was sorved. It was just a simple and happy little family gathering. . Lord Hewart,-who is a very distinguished lawyer, a man of groat personality, a wonderful conversationalist, and a man of wit, responding to thei toast of "The Bride, and Bride-. groom," remarked:-— ' "There are two kinds of speeches— the long one and the short. On ooca. i sions such as this my reply should be the short one, And yet, perhaps, it. would not be inappropriate today to use the long one. The short speech ■is ■ 'Thank you.' The -long one is 'Thank : you vory much,' " Later in the afternoon, the bride and bridegipDni left for tho Sussex 'coast, making* their headquarters at Brighton. Lady. Hewart should have a very interesting life in London in view of her husband's important position. Lord, Hewart's book upon "Departmental-j ism" is rogarded as a classic LANCASHIRE MEN. ! The Lord Chief Justice aha his beat man, Sir Herbert CnnHffe, are both. Lan.cashire men. Lord Howart was bor» at Bury and Sir Herbert Cunliffo at Bolton. Both entered the law by. way of journalism. Lord Hewart was 32 when he forsook Icador-writing for the Bar. , , . ■ ' Sir Herbert CunlifEe (who i? two and a half years his friend's senior) -worked for a time on his father's paper at Bolton. But he was reading mcanwMlo for tho Bar and he was colled before he was 30. Lord Howart will bo 65 this' week. Curiously enough, his best m»B also married for a second time at the same age. # ; ■ Totteridgo, whoro the wedding took place, has a very long history.'; The manor was acquired by Queon Elisabeth in 1562, and subsequently . passed through tho hands of various families. During last century it was bought by Sir Samuel Bagster Boulton; father of Sir Harold Boulton, the ■ writer of "Glorious Devon" and many other popular songs. HOUSE OF LORDS CONTROVERSY. Lord Hewart came greatly-into prominonco in the middle of last month when ho made a vigorous attack in the House of Lords on tho Supreme Court of Judicature Amendment Bill. He protested that tho Lord Chancellor had introduced the new Bill for -increasing the number of Judges in tho King's Bench Division.without saying a word to him. Another section of tho Bill. h$ maintained, was a personal affront to Lord Justice Slesser. If these obnoxious matters were not removed from the Bill, he said, ho would adjourn his court every day in order to be present jn tho House of LoTds to take part in fighting them not clause by clause, not lino by lino, but word by word.