WORLD TRAVELLERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 143, 20 June 1938, Page 10

WORLD TRAVELLERS

A TITLED PAIR FORMER WELLINGTON GIRL The comparative discomforts of a New Zealand winter have not prevented Sir Theophilus and Lady Metcalfe from making another visit to Wellington, the occasion this time being the golden wedding (on August 18) of Lady Metcalfe's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Wright, of Hamilton Road, Hataitai. They arrived today by the Awatea from Sydney and later will again try their luck at big-game fishing in the north. Every year Sir Theophilus and Lady Metcalfe spend about eight months in travelling. The former has visited fifty countries and Lady Metcalfe about forty. "We spend as much time as possible in each country," Lady Metcalfe remarked to an interviewer. "We feel that that is the only way to enjoy what a country has to oiler," Winter sports, music, and collecting have ardent followers in Sir Theophilus and Lady Metcalfe, and their travelling enables them to see and do much that would otherwise be out of the question. Their enthusiasm for collecting covers a wide field. Anything that is old and beautiful or that hSs historical value they acquire if it is not at a price beyond reason, and in the course of their wanderings they have built up a fine collection which is regularly being added to. "I learn an awful lot of history and geography from collecting," said Lady Metcalfe.

Winkworth, their home in Surrey, has very old historical associations and its famous garden is visited throughout the year by hundreds of si§hl'S66rs* An ancestor of Sir Theophilus, with the same name, Invented a system of shorthand well over a century ago, and while its principles probably have been forgotten long since, it is perpetuated in the crest of the house, which includes a hand holding a quill.