BARONET AND HIS BROTHER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15504, 10 January 1914, Page 2 (Supplement)

BARONET AND HIS BROTHER.

IN COURT ON SAME DAY

TWO RESTITUTIOCN DECREES.

Ht ft curious coincide Ceo two brothers figured in the Divorce Court as respondent? —Sir H. Lincoln Ti Jigve, who became a baronet in July of las! year, and Mr. Wilfrid Noel Taogyc. sons of the late Sir Richard Tangye, head of the well-known Birmingham engineering firm bearing that name.

The coincidence was carried further. Roth suits wore for reslitjtion oi conjugal rights, li-'th were undefended, both were heard by the same judge (Ml. Justice Bargrave Deaaie,. and in each case the wife was granted a decree.

Sir H. Lincoln Tangye- is the eldest son I of Sir ILv ..rJ Tangye. ajid was born in 1 1366. In September. 18-SSL he married, at iQtiinton, Worcestershire, Annie Gilaean, 1 daughter of the late Sir Hugh Gilzean | Reid. Mr. Barnard, K.C-, for Lady i Tangye, said there were three children of the marriagetwo daughters and a son, I aged respectively twenty -two, eighteen, j and sixteen. The married life was very | happy. In 1910 the husband went abroad, j and he wrote to his wife a most affecl lion letter from Paris on his way back:—

" My own darling," he wrote, '' 1 simply can't live away from you any longer. It is no good. I long just to be alone with you somewhere—you all to myself. I have been so anxious to la tow how you stood the move, your wire dees not say. I am returning to-morrow at four. It seems an age since I left you. 1 wonder (and fear) how yon are. Wire by 11, Dover Pier- My love! My love! Keep well and strong for your husband, who speaks rock bottom truth whim he says he loves you and would not live without you. I fed a depth of loneliness without you, which nothing can ever chase away. Till to-morrow, my wife, I kiss your. lips. Yours, Lincoln." Another Woman. After he returned, proceeded counsel, Sir Harold met a. lady under whose influence he fell, and he left his wife in January, 1911. Lady Tangye received a letter saying that her husband would not live with her again. Before applying for a restitution order she consented to a deed of separation for a year, but when the year was over things were no better. The lady saw her husband from time to time, and begged him to return to her, but in vain. On July 14 she wrote, saying:—

" Dear Lincoln,— recent letters have shocked me very much, and I feel that the time has come when, for the sake of myself and the children, 1 must know definitely what you intend to do. , You know I have always been anxious to have you back, and I am still anxious to do so. For the sake of yourself and the children, I implore you to come back again. lam sure if you do so you will never regret it. Let the past be buried and come back.— Your affectionate wife, Annie." To this Sir Lincoln replied — Dear Annie, —I received your registered letter, but our married life for many years has been unhappy, owing to radical differences in temperament, and divergent ! views on many vital matters. For these reasons I do not mean to return to you." Lady Tangye then gave evidence. She stated that she was still anxious for her husband to return to her. His Lordship then granted a decree, to be obeyed within fourteen days. After Tout in the East. The petitioner in the other suit was Mrs. Janet Elizabeth Tangye. Her counsel, Mr. Bay ford, stated that the marriage took place on September 8, 1904. In 1912 the husband, Mr. Wilfrid Noel Tangye, went on a shooting expedition in India, and the wife went on a tour in China. She heard that he was coming home, and when she got to Marseilles she got the following letter from him, dated June — " Dear Janet, —I am afraid what. I am going to say will be a bit of a shock, but I have been thinking things well over and have come to the conclusion that it's no use going on with the life we've led the last few years. You know it has been an impossible sort of business, and I feel the only thing to be done is for us to part. I am awfullv sorry about it, but just cannot' face it all over again. lam arranging for you to have one-third of my income. I wish we had not made such a muddle of things.—Your affectionately, Wolf." Mrs. Tangye, in reply, said that she could not possibly acquiesce in the suggestion that they should live apart. " I really do not know what there is that vou have to complain about in me. I have always done all I can to make your home happy and comfortable, and, as you know, I have always had a deep affection for you. I cannot bear to think of your living elsewhere,. If you will only tell me what it is you have to complain about I will do everything I can to meet your wishes.''

Mr. Tangye, said counsel, did not reply to that letter for a fortnight, and then wrote that he " felt ho must go his own way." Mrs- Tangye, giving evidence in support of counsel's statement, said that there were no children of the marriage. His Lordship granted the petitioner a decree of restitution of conjugal rights.