ECCENTRIC PEER'S WIDOW.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16353, 16 February 1921, Page 9

ECCENTRIC PEER'S WIDOW.

FOUND DEAD IN FLAT. LONDON. February 7. Lady A\ allscourt, widow of tlie eccentric ]x*er who died in April, 1920, was found dead in a Brighton flat with a glass and powders near by. s he formerly kept a Tobacconist’s simp at Putnev. and left a note saving: *• The solicitors will tell you why t put an end to niv awful misery/’ Lord Wallscourt was prominently bdforu the public in February, 1920, wlietri / bis affairs were inquired into in the Bankruptcy Court. On that, occasion [u declared that iiis great trouble had been that lie was a dipsomaniac, anil that explained Ids extravagance and the losses for which lie was unable to account. He lad been in trouble with v i lie police on six occasions for drunken-' ness. Since his Lather died he half been inundated with circulars from moneylenders offering to. lend him *- m« tic.v. In explanation oi his in tem pc*-- .- lml.il> he would ,hat he lii-limar.. and from earliest childhood saw more whiskv than wafer. His fail- *£ "ro was partly doe u. ibe tart, that he « was horn with a title, hut without an income t° keep it up. People seemed to think that because he was a lord he, have money.