WEDDING OF “LOST BARONET”

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 June 1932, Page 8

WEDDING OF “LOST BARONET”

PURSUED BY SIGHTSEERS. LONDON, April 22. Sir Francis Laurence John Barrow—the “lost” baronet who dropped his title nineteen years ago, and of whom

• his relatives had heard nothing from that time until two- days- ago—was married yesterday to Miss Edith Townshend, at Henrietta Street Register Office. Sir Francis was described as a widower, aged 69,- and his bride as a spinster, aged 52. pi the marriage certificate the bridegroom referred to himself as “Baronet architect.” Lady Barrow died in February last. Sir Francis’s son, Capt. Wilfred Barrow, who has not seen his father since be was 12, was not at the ceremony, and Sir Francis would not say whether a meeting between them had been arranged. Sir Francis expressed his intention of continuing to be known as “Mr Barrow.” There was an extraordinary scene at the close of the ceremony when the newly-married couple were followed by a crowd of sightseers. When they entered a restaurant in the Strand, the crowd remained outside waiting for them to come out.

After remaining for twenty minutes they left by taxi and drove to an insurance building in Cockspur Street This they left by the back entrance' and, hurrying into another taxi, drove quickly away.