COSTLY “TITTLE TATTLE”
COUNTESS WINS LIBEL ACTION. £l5OO DAMAGES AWARDED. (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) London, June 11. Mary, Dowager Countess of Seafield, has been awarded by the King’s Bench £lOOO damages for libel, and her daughter, Nina, Countess of Seafield, £5OO against George Wilberforce Grant as the result of a letter he wrote to the editor of the Strathspey Herald alleging that Nina was not the daughter of the Dowager and that the latter was guilty of gross imposture in putting her forward as a countess. The matter arose out of a claim in the Scottish Courts by Alexander Grant that the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Earls of Seafield had no title to the earldom, but that Alexander Grant ought to be the Eighth Earl. Counsel explained that the Eleventh Earl married Mabel Townend, of New Zealand, in 1898, but no child was bom to them till 1906. Counsel for defendant said the latter apologised for repeating the “tittle tattle” of a lady’s tea party. Defendant, who was a retired civil servant, had done a foolish thing and would have to suffer.—Reuter.
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Southland Times, Issue 19895, 14 June 1926, Page 7
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182COSTLY “TITTLE TATTLE” Southland Times, Issue 19895, 14 June 1926, Page 7
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