LONDON; WEDDING

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 97, 21 October 1936, Page 17

LONDON; WEDDING

HON. B; BADEN-POWELL

BRIDE OF NINETEEN

(From "Tho Post's" Representative.)

LONDON, September 26,

Much local interest centred round the''wedding on September 24 of Mr. Gervas Charles Robert Clay, District Officer in the Administrative Service of Northern Rhodesia, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerard Ar.den Clay, of Albury, Surrey, and the Hon. Betty St. Clair Baden-Powell, younger daughter of Lord and. Lady Baden-Powell, of Bentley, Hants. The Rev. Robert Thornewill (uncle of the bridegroom) and the Rev. Charles Dunn officiated, and the Dean of Westminster gaye the address. . •

The ' ceremony took place at St. Mary's Church, Bentley, Hants..Scouts in uniform belonging to. Westminster Abbey Choir School, led the singing.

The nineteen-year-old bride, Who was escorted by her father, wore a gown of' cream satin with a veil of old family lace, lent by the bridegroom's family, held in place by a wreath of orangeblossom. She carried a sheaf of arum lilies and lilies of the valley, and wore a pearl and diamond pendant, the gift of the bridegroom's father. Michael Walton and Catherine Barne carried the long satin train. , -

The eight grown-up bridesmaids—the j Hon. Heather Baden-Powell'* (sister)j! Miss Rosemary. and Miss Evie Clay, and Miss Fenella Sargeaunt (cousins of the bridegroom), Miss Rosemary Farrer Manby, Miss Rosalind de Renzy Martin, Miss Peggy Edge, and Miss Margaret Crawford —wore dresses of parchment-tinted satin with green sashes and headdresses of green glass. They carried sheaves of gladioli, and wore jade brooches, the gifts of the bridegroom. Mr. Ralph Clay was best man. .... ,

Lady Baden-Powell afterwards held a 'reception at Pax Hill, Bentley, and then the bride and bridegroom left for their honeymoon, which is being spent at sea en route for Northern Rhodesia. The bride travelled in a duck-egg blue dress with a navy blue coat and hat.

Hop pickers' in the field adjoining the old church cheered the Chief Scout and his daughter. They visited the house the previous day to see the wedding presents. Three large marquees were erected in the grounds of Pax Hill where there are cedar trees hundreds of years old.