PEER MARRIES NURSE

Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1927, Page 7

PEER MARRIES NURSE

ILLNESS AND A ROMANCE. Owing to the great precautions to keep the ceremony secret, very few of the public were present at St. Peters, Eaton Square, recently, says a London paper, when Lord Trevor, of Bryukinalt, Chirk, near Wrexham, married Miss Phyllis May Sims, the tall and handsome 23-year-old daughter of a master plumber, of Ki.'kton-iu-Lindsay, near Lincoln. The wedding was the culmination of a romance that, followed the illness of a sister of Lord Trevor, who is in hie 64th year. Eight years ago the bride left her home and went to be a nurse at Sheffield Infirmary. Afterwards she worked in a nursing home in Manchester. Finally she went to London and joined the staff of a nursing home. While there she nursed the Hon. Leila Hill-Trevor, sister of Lord Trevor. The patient took a great fancy to Mies Sims, and invited her to stay at Brynkinalt. There the friendship began between the young nurse and the peer, who was regarded as a life-long bachelor.

Lord Trevor, who will be remembered in Auckland as the Hon. C. E. HillTrevor, is tho third baron, having succeeded to the title in 1923. He was at one time on the Government House staff in New Zealand. Being disqualified on account of age from fighting in the war, be joined the British Red Cross as an ambulance driver. Later he wae attached to the French Red Cross and won the Croix de Guerre on the battlefield.

Tho parents of the bride were unable to travel to London for the wedding ceremony. About 40 guests were present, among whom were Lord Richard Neville; the Countess of Ranfurly, and Lord and Lady •Arthur Hill, at whose bouse a reception was’given after the eerctooaj.