TRAGIC FAMILY
DAUGHTER TO WED
LONDON, July 24.
Lady Evelyn Frances Courtenay, 28-year-old eldest sister of the 20-year-old seventeenth Earl of Devon, is engaged to Mr, Thomas Anstey, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Anstey, of Matford House, Exeter. Lord Devon, who succeeded last year, is a clergyman.
Lady Evelyn lives with her mother, Marguerite Countess of Devon, and
her brother at Powderham Castle, near Exotor.
Tho Courtenays are one of the oldest ancV most tragic families in the peerages'; The sixth and seventh earls were beheaded, the eighth was attainted, tho tenth was imprisoned, the eleventh was beheaded, the twelfth was imprisoned from the ago of .12 until he was 26, then imprisoned again. The title has only rarely descended directlv from father to son.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19134, 1 October 1936, Page 7
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126TRAGIC FAMILY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19134, 1 October 1936, Page 7
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