TRAGIC DEATH
COLLAPSE WHILE GUESTS LAUGH AT JOKE LONDON, November 3. “I have been talking to judges and juries all my life,” said Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett, speaking at the Greyhound Association’s dinner in the Dorchester Hotel. Referring to his recent appointment as chairman of the London County Sessions, he added jocularly: “Now I must listen to others. Thus I may be making my last speech. ’ ’ Before the speech was completed Sir Henry Curtis-B.'iinett collapsed and died in a few minutes. Known as the Falstaff of the Bar because cf his girth, Sir Henry CurtisBennett staggered and fell while the guests wore still laughing at a joke about his weight, on which he jested on innumerable occasions. His death recalls that Sir Henry’s father dropped dead at a public meeting in 1913, a month after his appointment gs Chief London Alagistrate.
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Kaikoura Star, Volume LVI, Issue 87, 5 November 1936, Page 2
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