AUSTRALIAN BARONET

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 November 1938, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN BARONET

SIR FREDERICK TROLLOPE

[PER press association.]

AUCKLAND, November 14

On his way hack to Australia after visiting England on business connected with the baronetcy to which he succeeded last year. Sir Frederick Trollope, of North Sydney, arrived at Auckland as a through passenger by the Niagara. Sir Frederick, who is a bachelor, aged 62, has been for many years an officer of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney. Ltd., and is at present head of its legal department. He said that, very probably he would resume his duties at the bank when he returned to Sydney. There was no truth in reports that the parties in England had conducted a long search before finding the missing heir in Australia. Sir Frederick said. The lineage of the Australian branch of the Trollope family had always been on record. Although he was the fifteenth baronet, he could trace his descent from no later a holder of the title than the fourth baronet, five generations back, who had died in the latter part of the eighteenth century.

Asked whether there were any estates connected with the title. Sir Frederick said he had succeeded to about 2000 acres in south Lincolnshire.' It was really on this account that he had visited England. Sir Frederick is a grandson of Anthony Trollope, the novelist, one of whose sons settled in Australia and married there. He mentioned that his eldest brother had pre-deceased the last baronet by less than a, year. This brother had been a bachelor, like himself: but there was another brother, with two sons, so the title was likely to remain in Australia. The last holder. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Frank Trollope. who died in February. J 937. was formerly in the Buffs, and saw service in the Chitral campaign in 1895. Ihe South African War, and the Great War. The title was created in 1(111.