LINK WITH MAGNA CHARTA.
A ROMANCE. The most democratic Britisher can appreciate the romance of being descended from the commander of the Army of the Barons who extorted the signature of Maga Charta at Runnymede in 1215. Mr Henry Fitzwnlter Plumtre, of Goodnestone Park, near Deal, in Kent, has just proved his right to the barony of Fitzwmlter, first conferred on the grandson of tlie barons’ leader in 1295. When Benjamin, the nineteenth baron, died in 1756, a viscounty and an earldom had been added; hut as he died without heirs these titles lapsed. In 1841, when Sir Brood William Bridges, the maternal great-uncle of Mr Pluintre, tried to get the baroney it was decided that it w*as still in abeyance. If a. certain Jemima Duke had left any descendants, they would have a better claim than Mr Plumtre. Now* eighty-three years later, no representative of Jemima having put in an appearance, Mr Plumtre, whose parents gave him Fitzwalter as a Christian name, secures the title.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 October 1924, Page 10
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166LINK WITH MAGNA CHARTA. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 October 1924, Page 10
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