A PEERAGE ROMANCE
QUESTION OF LEGITIMACY. Press Association—liy Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 7. The action brought in the Court of Session (Edinburgh) by Mr Alexander Waitworth Maodomild Bosvilio against Lord Macdonald of Sleat- seeking a decision that his grandfather, born on September 12 1200, was made legitimate by a, subsequent maniii«t.\ has been dismissed, as far as the question of relationship was concerned, but the parties are allowed to offer proof on the question of legitimacy. According ( 0 the statement of claim, the claimant's greatgrandfather eloped nitli a Miss Lacoast, the illegitimate daughter of tho Duke of Gloucester. Tii-av wore married at the British Embassy (Paris). A son. a!K | (klll! |, Un , wero born. Subsequently Lady Macdonald insasted on being regularly married in England. A second soil was afterwards born, end the claim was then raised that the sscond marriage deprived the two elder children of life advantage of bein.' born in wcdlcck. °
Bosville made no claim on the Scotch estates of the family or on the Irish P<w r . age; he only wished to have the legitiniacv of his grandfather established.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14702, 9 December 1909, Page 7
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180A PEERAGE ROMANCE Otago Daily Times, Issue 14702, 9 December 1909, Page 7
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