DOWAGER DUCHESS OF NORFOLK
RELATIVES IN DOMINION The Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, who, •■with her daughter, Lady Winifride Howard, will arrive in New Zealand next week, is a baroness in her own right, the barony having been created 446 years ago, in the reign of Henry VII. She succeeded her father, the fourteenth Baron. Herries, in 1908, four years after her marriage to the Duke of Norfolk, the premier duke and earl of England. He was the fifteenth Duke of Norfolk, and one of his titles, that of the Earl of Arundel, dates bade to the year 1139. H© died in 1917, and his son, the present Duke of Norfolk, who succeeded him, was married this year. The visit of the Dowager Duchess to New Zealand is of particular interest in Alarlborough and Canterbury, where some of her relatives live. Tlie late Air H. D. Vavasour, of “ Ugbrooke,” Marlborough, formerly one of New Zealand’s leading pastoralists, was her cousin, and some of the family are still at “ Ugbrooke.”-
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Evening Star, Issue 22805, 13 November 1937, Page 25
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