QUEEN'S SECRETARY DIES
AFFLUENCE TO BENEVOLENT HOME, OMAHA (U.S.), December 28. To be born and bred in luxurious surroundings, and then to die penniless at tho ago of eighty-four in a benevolent homo. 'That was the lot of Alice Brown Bartlett, who died to-day at tho Old People's Homo at Omaha, in Nebraska. She was born in London in 1811, and belonged to the famous family of ship and engine bidders. She married Thomas Brown, a- poor architect, and was disinherited by her angry relatives. Mrs Brown, as she was then, acted ns secretary to Queen Victoria from IHH to 1871. ' She then became travelling companion to Lady Forbes, and in America married a man named Bartlett-. Bartlett failed in business, and when ho died left his widow in abject poverty.
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Evening Star, Issue 19142, 8 January 1926, Page 10
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131QUEEN'S SECRETARY DIES Evening Star, Issue 19142, 8 January 1926, Page 10
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