LIFTMAN’S ROMANCE

Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1930, Page 6

LIFTMAN’S ROMANCE

LOST BARONET DISCOVERED. Romance has brought to a happy close a long and patient search for the lost heir to an English baronetcy. The outcome of it is that Dick Wolseley, a lift attendant, of Waterloo, lowa, was married there recently to Miss Marian Elizabeth Baker, of Brixham, Devonshire, and is taking up his residence in England as Sir Reginald Beatty Wolseley, the tenth baronet. Recently Miss Baker arrived in the town of Waterloo, and said she was seeking Sir Reginald Beatty Wolseley. After much shaking of heads, someone thought of the town’s most popular lift operator. Miss Baker explained that Mr. Wolseley’s mother died in England • last November, and requested her to find her son and bring him to England, as his brother had died and he was now the rightful heir. Mr. Wolseley replied that he left England 33 years ago to make his fortune in America. He was so over-joyed that he asked Miss Baker to marry him—and she accepted. In due course the ceremony was performed, and then “’Dick,” as. the liftman had been known, threw up his job to go to England and claim the title, The baronetcy,, known -as “Wolseley of Mount Wolseley,” created in 1745, has been officially registered as vacant♦ since the ninth baronet—'Captain Sir Capel Charles Wolseley—died in 1923. Debrett gives Mr. Reginald Wolseley as the tenth baronet, but he will have to prove his title before it is zecognised in that official list. This is enforced by Clause 11 of the Royal Warrant of February, 1910. Reginald Beatty Wolseley is 58 vears of age, and is the son of the late‘Cadwaller Brooke Wolseley, M.D.. and fourth in descent from the late William ■ Wolseley,.third.son of the first baronet, i