SOCIETY “BREACH” CASE

Evening Star, Issue 20853, 24 July 1931, Page 1

SOCIETY “BREACH” CASE

PEER AND EX-ACTRESS £IO,OOO DAMAGES CLAIMED. LONDON, July G. It is understood that an" action for breach of promise against an cighty-two-year-old Socialist peer has been settled by arrangement between the two parties. This caso was entered for hearing In the High Court, and probably would have been reached in the present law term. Mrs Geraldine Gaynor, known in former years under her stage name of Quccniu Gerald, was the plaintiff, and the Earl of Kimberley, of Kimberley, Norfolk, was the defendant. The damages claimed were £IO,OOO. It was alleged by Mrs Gaynor that in 1928 Lord Kimberley gave a verbal promise to marry her, and that the engagement was later repudiated in a letter by Lord Kimberley. Tho action has, by agreement, been stayed under terms agreed on between tho two parties, which include the payment of a substantial sum of money by Lord Kimberley to Mrs Gaynor and also her legal costs. Lord Kimberley was married in 1875 to Isabel Geraldine, the daughter ofthe late Sir Henry .I.'Stacey. Lady Kimberley died in 1927. Ho has always been a picturesque personality. .Ho was at one time an active member of tho Socialist Party, and president of that party in South Norfolk. During the agricultural labourers’ strike in Norfolk lu was a strong supporter of tbo men against tho farmers. Lord Kimberley was for many’years associated with the Norfolk County Council, and on one occasion ho, challenged a fellow-member to fight t duel in France. Tho Kimberley estates in Norfolk extend to many thousands of acres, Mrs Gaynor was one of tho accepted beauties of London in tho years before aul just after the war. She numbered among her friends Cabinet Ministers and other distinguished people.! Who was then known as Ouoonie Gendd. - j .

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