LADY BROWN DIVORCED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20720, 13 November 1930, Page 11

LADY BROWN DIVORCED.

TRAVELLER AND EXPLORER. PETITION BY HUSBAND. LONDON. Nov. 11. fa the Divorce Court to day Mr. Justice Batoson granted to Sir Melville Richmond Brown a decree nisi on tlie ground of the adultery of Lady Brown with Mr. F. A. Mitchell-Hedges, the explorer. A mysterious attack upon Mr. MitchellHedges at Ripley by six young Liberals, which was followed by the loss of six shrunken natives' heads, created a sensation in January, 1927. The Court dismissed Lady Brown's cross petition for divorce, amended from a suit for judicial separation. Neither Lady Brown nor Mr. Hedges gave evidence. .Sir Melville's affairs have been controlled by a Master in Lunacy since 1910. The parties were married in 1906, and have no children. Mr. Hedges and Lady Brown have beeil associated in world-wide exploration tours. Sir Melville will make an allowance to I.ady Brown. Sir Melville Richmond Brown is the third baronet. He was born in 1866, and succeeded to the title in IGO6, and in that your married Miss Lilian Mabel Roussel, of Guernsey. She, in company with Mr. Mitchell-Hedges, travelled extensively in unknown parts of Central America in 1921-22, and they returned with a large ethnological collection, much of which is in (Tie British Museum. Mr. MitchellHedges has been an explorer in Central America, the Caribbean Sea and tho Pacific Ocean, and made many new discoveries in Honduras. He and Lady Brown are well-known big game fishers. In 1906 he married Miss Lilian Agnes Clarke.