PEERAGE ROMANCE
COMPROMISE REACHED
LONDON, March 3
In connection with the case Bosville v. Lord Macdonald of 'Sleat, Lord Macdonald has withdrawn opposition to the proof of Mr Bosville's legitimacy, but the case requires foi'mal proof for the satisfaction of the court.
An action was brought, in December last in the Court.of Session (Edinburgh) by Mr Alexander Wentworth Macdonald Bosville against Lord Macdonald of Sleat seeking a decision that his grandfather, born on September 12, 1800, was made legitimate by a subsequent marriage. The case was dismissed, as far as the question of relationship was concerned, but the parties were allowed to offer proof on the question of legitimacy. ..
According to the statement of claim, the claimant's great-grandfather eloped with a Miss. LacOast. the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Gloucester. They, were married at the British Embassy (Paris). A son and daughter were born. Subsequently Lady Macdonald insisted on being resrularlv
married in England. A second son was afterwards born, and the claim was then raised that the second marriage deprived the two elder children of the advantage of being born in -wedlock. Bosville made no claim on the Scotch estates of the family or on the Irish peerage; he only wished to have the legitimacy of hie grandfather established..
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Otago Witness, Issue 2921, 9 March 1910, Page 24
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211PEERAGE ROMANCE Otago Witness, Issue 2921, 9 March 1910, Page 24
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