LIFT-MAN’S ROMANCE

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 July 1930, Page 12

LIFT-MAN’S ROMANCE

LOST BARONET DISCOVERED

Romance has brought to a happy close a long and patient search for (he lost heir to an English baronetcy The outcome of it is that Dick Wolseley, a lift attendant, of Waterloo, lowa, was married there recently to Miss Marian Elizabeth Baker, of Brixham, Devonshire, and is taking up his residence in England as Sir Reginald Beatty Wolseley, the tenth baronet.

Recently Miss Baker arrived in the town of Waterloo, and said she was seeking Sir Reginald Beatty Wolseley. After much shaking of heads, someone thought, of the town’s most popular lift operator. Miss Baker explained that Mr Wolseley’s mother died in England last November,- and requested her to find her son and bring him to England, as his brother had died, and he was now the rightful heir. ft

Mr Wolseley replied that he left England 33 years ago to make his fortune in America. He was so overjoyed that ho asked Miss Baker to marry him —and she accepted. In due course the ceremony was performed and then “Dick,” as the lift-man had been known, threw up his job to go to England and claim the title. The baronetcy known as “Wolseley of Mount Wolseley,”'created in 1745. has been officially registered as vacant since the ninth baronet —Captain Sir Capel Charles Wolseley—died in 1923.

Debrett gives Mr Reginald Wolseley as the tenth baronet, but lie will have to prove his title before it is recognised in that, official list. This is enforced by Clause 11. of the Royal Warrant of February 1910.

Reginald Beatty Wolseley is 5S years of age. amt is the son of the late Cadwaller Brooke Wolseley, M.D., and fourth in descent from the late William Wolseley, third son of the first baronet.