BARRISTER'S SERVANT-WIFE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, Issue LVII, 20 August 1910, Page 3

BARRISTER'S SERVANT-WIFE.

LONDON, July 8. The publication of a barrister's wll unfolded this week a strange life romance. It is the story of a servant, who was the barrister's wife for thirtyseven years, unknown to any of Irs family. Mr Arthur Joseph Munby, barrister and poet, of a well known Yorkshire family, died last January, aged eightyone. His will, made some years ago, disposing of £23,867, states that le married in 1873 Hannah Cullwick, a servant, and that she has been "as faithful and loving and devoted' to mo as ever woman was to man." The wiJ continued : And wliereas there is no issue of the said marriage, and whereas, notwithstanding her said marriage, the said Hannah has always refused, and still refuses, to have the position which, as my wife, she might and could have, and has always insisted, and still insists, on being my servant as well as my wife, her one grievance being that she cannot be only my servant: and Avhereas, owing chiefly to this noble and unselfish resolve of hers, I have never been able to make known my said marriage to my family or to the world, and the same is known only to her kindred and three of my most intimate college friends. It was his desire that "my most dear and beloved wife and servant shall be (as she is now and- always has bee .i) provided for comfortably in that state of life winch she prefers to another, 1 ' and as she desired also that she should not have any claim as his wife on bis estate other than that given to her l\ hi 3 will, he left her £3UU, "her savings of wages as a hired servant/ a "fe annuity of £70, and his household effects in the residence occupied by her. Mrs Munby died last July, leaving no will, so that her money passed to her husband. The tombstone at Shifnal records that beneath it lies the body of Hannah, the beloved wife an • servant of Arthur Joseph Munby, and concludes: "The pure and honorable love of thirty-seven years." During the whole of their married life Mrs Munby elected to remain in the capacity of servant, addressing and receiving wages as such. In the eyes of his relatives and the world at large Mr Mun \v was unmarried. It was only in some small Shropshire villages where Mrs Munby lived, and where Mr Munby joined her from time to time, that h<? was a married man. The villagers did not recognise in him the successful ecclesiastical barrister and author. Although possessed of considerable means Mr and Mrs Munby lived frrgally. The cottage in which she died was worth only! half a crown a week. Mrs Munby was anything but fashionably dressed, and she rarely appeared in any costume other than that of a domestic. They were bound by ties of the deepest mutual affection; yet nothing that Mr Munby could do or sny could induce her to give up the position she had voluntarily 'imposed upon herself and to go into the great world as his wife. To the last Mrs Munby always spoke of her husband as "the master."

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