WEDDING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22822, 1 September 1937, Page 5

WEDDING

GILL—CAMPBELL-SMITH [I'HOM OUH OWN COHUKSPONDENTI LONDON, August 11 The wedding was celebrated at the old village church at Bncklebury, Berkshire, on August 7 of Miss Kiti Colin Canipboil-Smith, of Nelson, eider daughter of Dr. and -Airs. A. CampbellSinilli, and Mr. Cecil Gervase Hope Gill, of the .British Consular Service. Mr. Hope (Jill was on duty in Addis Ababa throughout Hie late war and is now in London taking a special course at the Imperial Defence College, an honour which is bestowed on only a limited number in the consular service. lie is the elder son of the lU. Rev. Bishop Hope Gill, D.D., British chaplain at .H ye res, formerly of India, and Mrs. llopo Gill. The bride, in the absence of her father, was given away by her uncle, Mr. I). Stewart Smith. She wore a frock of rich bronze-gold splayed satin with quilted skirt and bouffant quilted sleeves. The veil of gold silk-meshed net was held by a water-lily headdress, and a spray of large white waterlilies was carried. Three bridesmaids followed, wearing frocks of widelv-flared lime-green whorled slipper satin. .Each had a fanpleated headdress of green tulle fastened with, a cluster of yellow waterlily buds, and each carried a spray bouquet of water-lilies of a pale yellow shade with foliage. These attendants were M iss Alteon West-Watson, daughter of the Bishop of Christchurch, Miss Ann Twigg, daughter of Dr. Garnet Twigg, formerly of Hawke's Bay, and M iss Margery Hope Gill, cousin of the bridegroom, daughter of Surgeon-Cap-tain Herbert Rope Gill, 11. N., and Mrs. Hope Gill, of Kingswear, Devon. The hest man was Mr. Geoffrey Allchin, M.C., of the Foreign Office. Thegroomsmen were Mr. A. Campbell Wright, cousin of the bride, and Mr. Evan Hope Gill, cousin of the bridegroom. Mr. D. S. MacShane, of Tauranga, was at the organ. Bishop Hope Gil! performed the ceremony, assisted by the vicar, the Rev. E. M. Thorp. Fiom the church it was only a shortdistance to the historic Old Priory and Manor House Fish-Ponds, which were lent by Mr. W. Hartley Russell. ]fc was at these fish-ponds that Swift had courted Stella, and Bolingbroke had lived at the manor house. The guests were mostly friends of the bridegroom from the Foreign Office and Alexandria, but among the New Zealanders were Professor T. H. Easterfield. Mrs. and Miss Easterfield, Di. and Mrs. S. A. Gibbs, Mrs. Jennings, Takaka, and Mr. MacShane.