SON FOR EARL
A PRAYER ANSWERED.'
LONDON. March 27
The church bells of the village of Wortley (Yorkshire) were rung to-day —because a ’son and heir has been born at Wortley Hall to the Earl and Countess of Wharncliffe. They have already four daughters—the eldest is sixteen years of age and the youngest live. If no heir had been born the six-hundred-year-old family seat would have passed to-a stranger who lives in America. He is a cousin of the present Earl, but none of the family knows him. Jimmy Lane, the oldest retainer, said, “All on the, estate have been praying (hat it should be a boy this time,” he said. “I believe it is four or five generations since an heir was last born at Wortley Hall. “There are five thousand acres on the estate. There are deer on it whose ancestors date back to 1310.” The baby's title will be Viscount Carlton. Carlton House Terrace in Condon takes its name from the title. The Earl said: "My sou weighs 9Alb.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 May 1935, Page 3
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