ROMANTIC ENGAGEMENT.

Otago Witness, Issue 3832, 23 August 1927, Page 32

ROMANTIC ENGAGEMENT.

PEER AND PLUMBER'S DAUGHTER. WELLINGTON, August 19. The following is from a recent issue of the London Daily Mail, which has reached Wellington:— “An engagement is announced between Lord. Trevor, of Brynkinalt, Chirk, Wrexham, who is 63 years of age, and Miss Phillis Sims, aged 23, the daughter of Mr and Mrs J. A. Sims, of Kirton-m-Lind-sev, Lincolnshire. The young womans mother makes the announcement. , “Lord Trevor is the third Baron Irevor, and succeeded to the title in 1923. Formerly h e was a captain in the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and from 1897 to 1904 he was assistant private secretary and Aide-de-camp to the Earl of Ranfurly. During the war he served in France with the British Red Cross. “Miss Sims, who is tall and handsome, is the daughter of a working plumber, and her parents live in a creeper-covered cottage in the centre of the town upon ‘The Hill,’ as Kirton-in-Lindsey. is called by Lincolnshire people. Miss Sims left Kirton eight j ars ago for the Sheffield Infirmary, and was a nurse there for some years. Afterwards she spent some time in a M nchester nursing home, and from there she went to a nursing home in Porchester square. It was there that she nursed the Hon. Leila Hill-Trevor, sister of Lord Trevor, through a serious illness. “To a Daily Mail representative Mrs Sims said: ‘Miss Trevor took such an i '.crest in my daughter that she asked her to return with her to Lord Trevor’s home in Wales, While she was there Lord Trevor fell ill, and Miss Sims nursed him. A great friendship sprang up between the two during this period, and it has now ended in an engagement.’ ”