SIR WALTER GILBEY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19942, 29 October 1934, Page 5

SIR WALTER GILBEY

SECOND MARRIAGE It was revealed recently that Sir Walter Gilbey, Bart., and Mrs Marion Miller Broadhead, of Farnley Tyas near Huddersfield, were married at a Huddersfield register office. Only five local friends of the bride and bridegroom were present. On the register Sir Walter was described as a “baronet, previously married, now divorced.” His age was given ar seventy-four, and that of the bride as thirty-nine. The bride is the widow of Mr Wilson Broadhead, a director of a firm of gas engineers at Elland, near Huddersfield, and the daughter of the late Mr James Robert, a brewer, of Farnley Tyas. Sir Walter is the second baronet. He married in 1884 Miss Ella Fowlie,

daughter of the late Mr J. C. Fowlie, of Coombe Warren, Kingston Hill. The marriage was dissolved in 1926. There is one son, Mr Walter Ewart Gilbey. Sir Walter is widely known lor his interest in horses. He has been present at every Shire Horse Show in London since 1877, and was president of the society in 1927. He is president of the London Cart Horse Parade Society. He is also a prominent owner of racehorses. Recently he attracted some attention by criticisms of what he described as the slovenly attire of riders in Rotton Row. especially condemning those who wore no hats or otherwise departed from convention.