BOTTOMLEY'S ASHES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 107, 2 November 1937, Page 9

BOTTOMLEY'S ASHES

TO BE SCATTERED BY

ACTRESS

(Received November 2, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, November 1. The actress Miss Peggy Primrose received the ashes of Mr. Horatio Bottomley, the former journalist,and politician, and is to scatter them on Alfriston Downs.

It was announced some days ago that a Marylebone undertaker, Mr. E. Tarbuck, who conducted the funeral of Mr. Horatio Bpttomley, proposed to advertise that the urn containing Mr. Bottomley's ashes, still in' his workshop, would be destroyed unless it was claimed shortly. Mr. Tarbuck stated that the actress Miss Peggy Primrose, who was a close friend of Mr. Bottomley for 23 years, arranged to carry out Mr. Bottomley'a wish that his ashes should be scattered at his, old home, Upper Dicker, Sussex, but he had not heard from her for two years. A representative of the "News Chronicle" found Miss Primrose living in rooms at the top of a block of flats in North London. She said she would collect the urn containing the ashes immediately. "Mr. Bottomley told me to dispose of the ashes as I wished," she said. "I know what I shall do with them, but it must remain a secret. It is true that I paid his funeral expenses, but I have not been able to collect the ashes during the intervening years. Yes, there's a reason, but I don't wish to talk about it."