SIR GUY GAUNT.
WIFE OBTAINS DIVORCE. A. and N.Z. LONDON, Dcc. 21. Lady Gaunt, the wife of Vice-Admiral Sir Guy Gaunt, has been granted a divorce on the ground of his adultery during a cruise. Vice-Admiral Sir Guy Gaunt was formerly Conservative member of the House of Commons for tho Buckrose Division of Yorkshire. He was born in Victoria and educated in Melbourne. He had a distinguished career in the Navy, and was in command of the British Consulate Apia, Samoa, when the rebels attacked tho town in 1899. He was in the China station in 1907, and was naval attache at Washington, 1914-1918, and served through the war. In 1926 he remodelled a lumber schooner, the Four Winds, put on board the furniture from his London flat and started from Puget Sound, State of Washington, and with a Chinese crew sailed to the Pacific, and reached the Cocos Islands. There he stayed for several months. He then visited Porto Rico ar.d Havana and returned to Europe. He resigned his seat in the House of Commons in 1926. He married Miss Margaret Wardle, a daughter of the late Sir Thomas Wardle. of Leek, England.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19827, 23 December 1927, Page 11
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194SIR GUY GAUNT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19827, 23 December 1927, Page 11
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