A London cablegram states that Signor Marconi was married at St George s, Plan over square, to Lad3 r Beatrice, sister to Lord Inchiquin. Signor Marconi has not .vet completed his thirtieth 3 r ear, but he has made bis name known tho world over by reason of his experiments with wireless telegraphy. It is due to Marconi that the. news of the day is nowtransmitted to and printed aboard tho great passenger liners in the Atlantic. The first ocean newspaper was the “Cunard Daily Bulletin,” published on the steamer Campania last year, and now issued every morning. Signor Marconi (whose mother was an Irishwoman) has married into a family of the Irish nobility which claims descent from Brian Boroimlie, who fell in the battle of Clontarf in the year 1014. The sixth baron (the present Lord Inchiquin is fifteenth baron) was distinguished in Ireland ; n the Civil War as a Royalist.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1726, 29 March 1905, Page 17
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152Untitled New Zealand Mail, Issue 1726, 29 March 1905, Page 17
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