A link with Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo has been severed by the death at Sydenham. London, of a woman whose grandfather was responsible for bringing the news of Britain’s victory to Dover. She was Mrs Janet MacLaren, granddaughter of Captain John Cullen, the courageous mariner who piloted Nathan Rothschild from Ostend to Dover when no other flapper would venture out to sea with the bearer of the great news on account of the stormy weather. Mrs MacLaren provided vet another link with the Napoleonic period, for her husband was the son of Neil MacLaren, a Scottish soldier who was on guard at St. Helena when Napoleon’s remains were' e;.humed in 1840 preparatory to being transferred to Paris.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21264, 19 February 1931, Page 6
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