SCOTS PEER WEDS

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 April 1938, Page 9

SCOTS PEER WEDS

ONE MONTH’S COURTSHIP. GLASGOW,.March 28. Lord Belhaven and Stenton, aged 66, married by declaration at his home at Wishaw. Lanarkshire. Miss Sheila Pearson, aged 28, whom he has known for only a month. His bride is the only daughter of Captain A. G. Pearson, of Knoll Farm, Aldington, Kent. She is his second wife. The declaration was made before witnesses in Wishaw House, beautiful home of Lord Belhaven. In a short ceremony they both declared themselves eligible for marriage and took each other as man and wife. A few minutes later they left fir the Hamilton Sheriff .Court, and before the sheriff declared marriage and applied for its registration. The business of the court was suspended while the formality was completed. Lord Belhaven and Stenton told of the inspiration which led to his romance. They met in Mentone, France, and from that moment “it was a case of mutual attraction, although that may seem strange coming from a man of my age. The new Lady Belhaven has promised to help me in the evening of my days—and I am sure she will.’’ Lady Belhaven said: "I am sure we shall be happy." Lord Belhaven’s first wife, whom he married in 1898, died in 1935. She was the daughter of Colonel Sir B. P. Bromhead, Bart. Lord Belhaven had a distinguished cateer as a soldier. He joined the Royal Scots Fusiliers in 1890, and was in civil employment under the Government of India from 1898 to 1923. “I have spent 30 years in India and have taken part in two of those little scraps and skirmishes on the Frontier,” he said three years ago in the House of Lords, in which he has sat for many years as a representative peer of Scotland: He has a married son and daughter, his daughter being the wife of Lord Raglan. He has four grandchildren. I Captain Pearson, the bride’s father, was at one time a member of the English international golf team. His daughter is known as a keen sportswoman. and an accomplished musician. The form of wedding chosen by Lord Belhaven is one of the types of marriage to which objection is taken in the bill to amend Scots marriage law.