LUXURY TO POVERTY.
i FORMER QUEEN'S SECRETARY. 1 DEATH IN BENEVOLENT HOME. NEW YORK. Dec. 28. To be born and bred in luxurious surroundings, and thou to die penniless at the age of 84 in a benevolent home, was ; the lot of Alice Brown Bartlett, who died j to-day at the Old People's Hone at ; Omaha, in Nebraska. She was born in London in 1841, and j belonged to the' famous family of shijD and j engine builders. She married Thomas i Brown, a poor architect, and was disinherited by her angry relatives. Mrs. ! Brown, as she was then, acted as secre- | tary to Queen Victoria from 1865 to 1371. | She then became travelling companion to | j .Lady Forbes, and in America married a j man named Bartlett. Bartlett failed in business, and when he died left his widow in abject poverty.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19218, 6 January 1926, Page 9
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142LUXURY TO POVERTY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19218, 6 January 1926, Page 9
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