BARONET RENOUNCES TITLE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, 11 April 1908, Page 5

BARONET RENOUNCES TITLE

WEALTHY BRITISH ARISTOCRAT BECOMES A PLAIN >‘MR.” Sir Emile Arthur’ Cowell-Stepney, Bart., of Ascot,-Berks, and : Llanelly, Carmarthen’, v has no -great regard for titles: He has ‘renounced His own, arid prefers be known as plain A. 8. Stepney. ' ' v . , It was rin that Sir Emile discarded:-his- baronetcy to the winds. What is the use of a title, anyway ?” he asked; • ft l . aim just plain A .C. Stepneyj AineficSari citizen, and I want to forget that. I ever was Sir Emile Arthur Cowell-Stepriey. I could keep the title if I desired, but I do not want it.” • He is now - living at a picturesque place called. arid he- has his; intention of never setting foot in ..Britain again. ‘ - But Sir Emile has lived in England many years. He is now seventy-four, and it is only two years since that he made America his adopted country. He has a seat at. Llanelly, and derives £30,000 per aniiuniyfitpm his- Welsh estate. He also owns extensive estates in Queensland, British Columbia and California. ■ l;-. . -■ Although Sir Emile, has foregone his title, .he canriot abolish, it. “It is impossible, ’ ’. - said an official at the College of Arms,. “for a man to. get rid of a barorietejr. The title having been conferred it will, in spite of himself, go .to his- successor.”