WEDDING

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8366, 28 February 1913, Page 7

WEDDING

LADY EDWINA ROBERTO. LONDON, February 26. Lady Edwina Roberts, daughter of Field-Marshal Earl Roberta, was to-day married to Major H. J. Lewin. It was a military wedding. There was a notable congregation and a great crowd in tho streets. Earl Roberts, who married, in 1859, Nora Henrietta, daughter of Captain John' Bews, 73rd Regiment, has had two sons and four daughters. The eldest son died the same day he was born in 1869, and the second Son was killed during the Boer war. On Lord Roberts’s return to England, Queen Victoria conferred an Earldom on him, with special remainder to his two surviving daughters, tho others having died in infancy. The elder. Lady Aileen Roberts, who was born in 1870 and is unmarried, is the hoir-prasumptivo to the Earldom, and should * she remain unwedded the title would fall to Lady Edwina, bom in 1875. Should they have a son. he would afterwards inherit the Earldom. Major Henry Frederick Elliott Lewin is a year or two older than his fiancee, is the son of Commander Lewin, 8.N., and has been employed with the Egyptian Army for a number of years, having joined as a second lieutenant in April, 1894. after serving two years in tho Londonderry Artillery Militia. In 1900 he was made captain, and in 1901 transferred to the Royal Field Artillery, of which he now commands the I42nd Battery. Frohi January, 1909, to March, 1911, Major Lewin acted as military secretary to the Sirdar (LieutenantGeneral Sir F. R- Wingate), having previously. from November, 1907, been assistant military secretary.