HONEYMOON TRAGEDY.
BARRISTER’S DEATH. "While spending his honeymoon at Worth Martravers, near Bournemouth, Mr Gavin William Ralston, barrister-at-law, died suddenly while walkinc to meet his wife along the road from Worth Matravers to Kingston. Mr Ralston graduated in Arts at Glasgow University. In 1900 and 1910 he contested West Fifeshire as Unionist candidate, and in 1915 was Unionist candidate for the Central Division of Glasgow. He was the first political candidate to. use • the cinema 'in his election campaign. introducing tins innovation in his Central Glasgow contest. On August 5 he married the Countess Thais Maikhoroff, daughter of Countess Orioff of Kharkov, and the late Professor Yarov Matharoff. The countess’s life has been tragic. Her "a.fher and brother were killed by and another brother fell in the war. She herself escaped, in perilous circumstances, from Russia. Mr Ralston was sixty-two years of age.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 November 1924, Page 12
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