SECRET WEDDING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22826, 10 March 1936, Page 13

SECRET WEDDING

BARONET AND SECRETARY It was' only recently revealed in London that Sir Harry Mallaby MallabyDeelcy, Bart., financier and former M.P., was married secretly on December 0 last to his private secretary, Miss Edith Maud Shocbridge. Sir Harry, a widower, is 72. His first wife died in 1933. His bride is 41. The marriage took place by special privilege in the Bishop of Southwark’s private chapel at Bishop’s House, Kcnuington. The bishop himself officiated. The bride was described as of Queensbury square. Bayswater, W., daughter of the late William John George Shoebridge. Immediately after the ceremony the bride and bridegroom left for Sir Harry’s chateau near Cannes. So secret was the wedding kept that even Sir Harry’s household staff at Mitcham Court, Surrey, were unaware that on the day he left for the Continent Miss Shocbridge was going with him as bis bride.

Fir over a quarter of a century Sir Harry has been a well-known figure in British finance, dealing on a large scale in Loudon property. The many big deals with which he has been concerned include the purchase of the Foundling Estates in Bloomsbury in 1938 for £1,750,000, the Duke of Bedford’s Covcnt Garden Estate frr £2,000,000 in 1913, and of the Piccadilly Hotel for £IOO,OOO in,lool. In 1929 he became a leader in tailoring on mass-production lines, and when, three years later, he banded over that business, be had had a marked influence in reducing the price of men’s suits. Prom 1910 to 1918 he was Conservative M.P. for Harrow, and from 1918 to 1922 for East Willesden.