UNEXPECTED HONOUR.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 2 November 1926, Page 6

UNEXPECTED HONOUR.

- - —■+ MYtoi'Elv.Y BARON I'Ji‘DV

»u .LjiaA liiNU M-AIN fcJt tAA. ii'jiA*-. LONDON, O x. line death lias occurred, at the age oi t\J, of ISii- Harry Btapjey, Jiau line total aissorus till lit uhe bcapiey biu-cnebt-y is an honour about widen i is some doubt. Sir Harry's lather, John, never assumed fcfce title, and it had been extinct or dormant since 1704. It Aviais originally confer led at the restoration ox the Stuarts on John Staple/, of Pateham, from whom Sir Harry claimed descent. NOT' KEEN ON T I TLE. MELBOURNE!, Oct. 23. Sir Frank Stapley, the neAV baronet, said: “I am the last of the family, and, though I haA-e not given my future plans much thought I feel it would hardly harmonise AA-ith conditions out here to use the title that lias come to me. 1 had three brothers, all of Avhoni are hoav dead. The youngest dieo in New Zealand three or four months ago. Had he been alive, things Avoukl hai-e been different, a.nd I might lia\'e looked upon the baronetcy avith different eyes. “I have no children, and 1 doubt if my Avi.fe would wish me assume tho title. My late brother, the head of tho family, lived in England, where such things seem more in accord AA-iith I,be established order. lam out of touch with niy relatives. I Iliad not seen this ‘brother for 42 years. The entail to the estates avus broken in my grand father’s time, «o there is only ll c title to take account of and that means little to me. HoAvever, I am thinking of going to England shortly, and there is no need for a hasty decision.”