AN ANCIENT LINE

Evening Star, Issue 19078, 22 October 1925, Page 1

AN ANCIENT LINE

BARONET DIES IH DUNEDIN TITLE BATES FROM 1066 Sir Andrew Fleming Huddleston lo Fleming, ■whose death at Dunedin on Tuesday of this week has been announced, was a baronet whose title runs hack to the Conquest, _ he being the twenty-sixth in succession from Sir Richard le Fleming, the second- son of Sir Michael le Fleming, who came over with William of Normandy. The patent of nobility dates from 1066. The family seat is Rydal Hall, in Westmoreland. Away back the le Flemings were the proprietors of_ Carnarvon Castle. Warwick, the King-maker, is in the pedigree, and several royalties. The father of tho baronet who died in Dunedin this week was Sir Michael le Fleming, who camo out to Canterbury -when a young man. Sir Andrew was horn at Christchurch, sixty-nine years ago, and was educated at Christ’s College. He married Jeanette, daughter of the late Roderick Frazer, of Glen Lovat, Seacliff. Otago. There are no children by this marriage. The title goes to Sir Andrew’s cousin, William Huddleston le Fleming, of Otakeho, Taranaki, and then to his son Frank Thomas le Fleming, who served with the New Zealand forces in the Great War. This Frank. Thomas le Fleming is married to a niece of Andrew le Fleming’s widow, and they have a little son. Sir Andrew' and Lady lo Fleming came to Dunedin a year ago for medical attention to Sir Andrew, who. was troubled with blood ' pressure. They lived at 165 Maitland street, where Lady lo Fleming still resides. Owing to Sir Andrew's illness they could not on about, in Dunedin. There w'eeks ngV'ci'J Andrew was crippled by \ a stroke of paralysis, wherefore he became a patient at Stafford Hospital. He was buried yesterday.