QUEEN’S SECRETARY DIES.
AFFLUENCE TO BENEVOLENT HOME. OMAHA (U.S.), Dec. 28. To be born and bred in luxurious surroundings, and then to die penniless at. the age of 84 in a benevolent home. That was the lot of Alice Brown Bartlett, who died to-day in the Old People’s Home at Omaha, in Nebraska. She was born in London in 1841, and belonged to the famous family of ship and engine builders. She married Thomas Brown, a poor architect, and was disinherited by her angry relatives. Mrs. Brown, as she was then, acted as secretary to Queen Victoria from ISG3 to 1871. She then became travelling compan ion to Lady Forbes, and in America married a man named Bartlett. Bartlett failed in business, und when he died left Ins widow in abject poverty.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 7 January 1926, Page 2
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