AGED WOMAN’S RECORD.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20280, 14 April 1934, Page 27 (Supplement)

AGED WOMAN’S RECORD.

Has Served One Family for Seventy Years. At the age of fourteen Elizabeth Vincent went to Her first employment —as one of the undermaids in the third Lord Radstock’s household. At the age of eighty-five she is still serving that family. Miss Vincent was promoted from her post of undermaid to be Lady Radstock’s personal maid, and still later housekeeper to the family at Corfe Castle, Dorset. Now she is housekeeper to the Hon Mrs Edwyn Bevan, of Wray Lane House, near Reigate. Surrey, grand-daughter of the third Lord Radstock. The old lady has covered the walls of her cosy* little room at Wray Lane House with photographs of members of the There are pictures of quaint Victorian groups, romping children, pretty girls in their “ presentation ” gowns and feathers. Some of those photographed are dead, some are married and are now the parents of yet more romping children. But Miss Vincent knew or knows them all, and can tell the whole history of their lives and romances. “ After seventy years of sharing their joys and sorrows, I feel that the Radstock family is as close to me as my own,” Miss Vincent said to an

interviewer. “ I have seen five generations of them grow up and have had my part in all that has happened to them. lam immensely proud to have been in their confidence all these years.” Mrs Bevan still allows Miss Vincent to keep all the household accounts. “ She is a first-class accountant,” said Mrs Bevan.