CLAIM TO FORTUNE.
SECRET MARRIAGE CLUE. PEER JOINS IN PETITION. (Received September 7, 5.10 p.m.) A. and N.Z- LONDON. Sept. 6. A number of persons, to which Viscount Bangor has . added his name, have petitioned the Crown claiming a fortune, estimated at £2,500,000, under romantic circumstances. In 1798 Maria Lepino, who had been certified to be insane, died, leaving a fortune of £92,000, which the Crown claimed, a3 she was believed to be illegitimate. Lord Bangor and the other petitioners now claim that her parents were secretly married before her birth. They assert that after years of search proof of the marriage has been found in the register of marriages in the church of St. Martin'sin the-Fields, London.
The sixth Viscount Bangor, Maxwell Richard Crosbie Ward, was born in 1868 and educated at Harrow School and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He entjered the Army in 1887 and retired in 1912. He served in the European War. He succeeded his father in the title in 1911. The title dates from 1781. The present viscount is an Irish Representative Peer.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19736, 8 September 1927, Page 11
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179CLAIM TO FORTUNE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19736, 8 September 1927, Page 11
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