WHOM THE GODS LOVE
BRILLIANT YOUNG AUTHOR’S DEATH (From Our Own Correspondent) LONDON, 14th March. - From Roland to France a severe influenza epidemic, predicted by medical experts as due. in its recurrent cycle, lias swept Europe. So far we seem to have escaped lightly, though many people are laid up with mild attacks. Amongst the victims is Mr Theyre Hamilton Weigali, the brilliant voung author, at the age of only 33. His funeral took place on Monday in the beautiful little church of St.. .tnst-in-:Roseland in Cornwall. T.II.\V. was a rare spirit, full ot sensitive joie de vivre, a keen cricketer, and a joyous traveller, ready to give a hand in a ship’s gallev or tench a tough old A.P>. to dance the tango. His first novel, “One Tree Hill ", is largely an autobiography. His father was a Supremo Court Judge in Melbourne, and •’’s mother is a daughter of a former Tasmanian Governor, and sister of Sir Robert Hamilton, M.P.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 2 May 1935, Page 5
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