Lord Waleran as Host

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6866, 24 May 1932, Page 2

Lord Waleran as Host

A peer’s breakfast party to a team of rating motorists in celebration of bis recent engagement was one of tbo unusual features of the Royal Automobile Club’s Torquay motor rally, which began on March 1 (states the Daily Mail). The peer was Lord Wale ran, aged 26, whose engagement was announced last January to Miss Margaret Patricia Black ader, the 18-year-old daughter of the late Captain and Mts Gordon Blackader, of Montreal. The party was held at Sheaf hay no Manor, Honiton, Devon, the Elizabethan residence of Captain and Mrs Benson, with whom Miss Blaekader was staying. Loid Waleran i.s a member of the firm of Rootes, Ltd., of Piccadilly, the distributors of Humber and Hillman cars, a fleet of which had been entered for the rally by Lord Waleran and seven friends. This team started on its 1000-milo run to Torquay, via the North of England, from the T/ondon control, and as its Toute passed through Honiton, Lord Waleran took the opportunity of holding thus celebration, None of the drivers had slept for two nights, and they were due at Torquay later in the morning. Among the drivers in Lord Waleran’s team were Sir Hemy Birkin, Earl of Howe, the Earl of March, the Earl of Brecknock, and Major Humphrey Butler, M.C., Prince George’s equerry. Altogether 367 cars, 60 driven by women, were entered for the rally.