HASTINGS BRIDE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 75, 29 March 1940, Page 11

HASTINGS BRIDE

MARRIED IN LONDON

(By Air Mail, froni "The Post's" London

Representative.)

LONDON, March 5.

. At St. George's, Hanover Square, on March 2, the marriage was solemnised between Lieutenant-Commander Auberon Charles Alari Campbell Duckworth, R.N., second son of the late Sir George Duckworth and of Lady Margaret Duckworth, and Miss Christina Elsie Williams, youngest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Edric Beetham Williams, and niece of Miss Elsie Williams, of Frimley, • Hastings. The Rev. J. C. Nankivell, R.N., officiated. The bride, who was given away by her cousin, Lieutenant Peter T. Williams, R.N., wore a bouffant gown, of stiff white duchess satin, made with long sleeves and a Mgh, heart-shaped neckline, to which was pinned a Naval brooch. Her train was of old Honiton lace (lent by her cousin, Mrs. V. E. Kemball), over which was draped a tulle veil, with which she wore a headdress of mixed white flowers, matching her bouquet. Mr. Henry Duckworth, Royal Artillery, brother of the bridagroom, was best rqsan. The reception vbS^ held by Mrs. Kemball at 28 Cadogan Gardens, where the toast of the young couple was proposed by Mr. J. C. Rolleston. Among those present were Lady (Margaret Duckworth, Mr. John Duckworth, the Hon. Mrs. Mervyn Herbert, Master Mervyn Herbert, Lady Kemball, Commander and Mrs. V. E. Kemball, Mr. and Mrs. Hal Williams, the Rev. Derek L. Williams, Miss R. A. Hoare. Miss Russell, Miss Gwen Russell, Miss V. Russell, Squadron- [ Leader and Mrs. G. M. Buxton, Mrs. Robert Nairn, Vice-Admiral Sir Percival and Lady Nicholls, Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Furse, Mrs. Noel Lloyd, Mrs. Percy Lea, Mrs. M. Rickards, Miss Rickards, Mrs. R. B. Greig, Mrs. Herbert Musgrave, Mr. and Mrs. H. Nuding, Mr. and. Mrs-. J. C. Rolleston, Mrs. G. R. Fox, Miss E. Bell, Miss Antoinette Wilder, Mr. Michael , Ormond, Mr. Peter Herrick, Sub-Lieu-tenant L. E. Herrick, Mrs. James Turnbull, Miss K. Adam, Miss D. Macnamara, Lieutenant-Commander and Mrs. H. Wyldbore-Smith, Miss BonhamCarter, Miss Blount, Miss M. Blount, ! Miss O. C. Kettle, Mrs. N. Poett, Mrs. R. F. Jessel, Mrs. Reginald Hoare, Miss Anne Hoare, Mr. R. Hoare, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Fisher, Miss Fisher, Mrs. W. Grant. The date of the wedding was hurriedly arranged, the bridegroom unexpectedly being granted leave.