EARL'S ROMANCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16020, 11 September 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

EARL'S ROMANCE.

WORKED AS LABOURER IN NEW ZEALAND. The Lancashire baronet, Sir Lees Knowles, who is nearly 60, will, says the Daily Despatch, become a member of one of the most. remarkable' families in the Scottish peerage by his forthcoming marriage to Lady Nina Ogilvie Grant, who is 31 years of age. Lady Nina is sister to the Earl of Seafield, chief of the Clan Grant. Her mother, the dowager countess, has had a romantic career. When she married the late earl, he was a working man, shouldering his pick and shovel, tee exiled son of an ancient race, in New Zealand, and she was a major's daughter. In 1888 this peer,- Lady Nina's father, came into the earldom, but died of heart disease a few months later.

Sir Lees Knowles" future brother-in-law, the Earl of Seafield, is the eldest of the workman peer's six children, and is 39. He also married a New Zealand lady, and her name, too, is Nina, and so is that of her little daughter. • '"'■, The family is enormously wealthy, and there have been extraordinary elements of romance in the story of the famous Seafield estates.

Sir Lees Knowles, who inherited much wealth on the death of his father, a great coal-owner, was Unionist member for West Sal ford for a considerable period. ,