LOVE BEFORE RICHES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21616, 7 October 1933, Page 2 (Supplement)

LOVE BEFORE RICHES

BRIDE FORFEITS WEALTH INCOME FROM £20,000 MONEY GOES TO CHARITY An heiress who forfeited tho income from a trust fund of £20,000 when she married on August 12, told tho Sunday Chronicle that she was very happy. This bride who put love before money was Miss Marjorie Clementson, a granddaughter of a former Mayor of Mossley, Lancashire, and the bridegroom was Mr. Bernard Thorp, a Manchester business man, who lives at Alderley Edge, Cheshire. They were married at a church at Maidstone, Kent. Mr. John Samuel Newlyn, a company director, who died four years ago, left Miss Clementson £ISOO, a car, the uso of Knoll House, Staplehurst, Kent, and tho income from a trust fund of £20,000 as long as she remained unmarried. If she married the income was to go to charity. Mr. P. J. Terry, a London solicitor and a trustee under Mr. Newlyn's will, stated that there was no question of tho income from the trust fund not going to charity. " There has really never been any doubt that Miss Clementson would relinquish tiie use of this money when she married," he said. •" She has never raised any objection. The sum involved will go to various local charities." Miss Clementson is the daughter of the late Rector of Staplehur:*;, and by her marriage she inherits under his will one-seventh of tho residue of her father's property. He left £22,M84 with net personalty £15,145. She went to live at Knoll House, which Mr.

Newlyn had bequeathed to her, but about the middle of 1931 she found that the burden of maintaining it was too heavy, and gave up the house to return to her parents' home. Mr. Newlyn was a friend of Miss Clementson's family, and took a fatherly interest in her welfare. At the time of the publication of Mr. Newlyn's will there was considerable discussion as to the legality of the condition attached to tho use of the income from the trust fund. Mr. Thorp met Miss Clcmentson nearly six years ago at the house of mutual friends at Alderley. The church was packed for tho wedding, over 100 guests from the North of .England and from Sussex being among those present. The bride, who looked charming, was dressed in white and carried a bunch of lilies. After a reception, in the former palace of tho archbishops of Canterbury, the couple left for the honeymoon, but refused to disclose their destination.