PEER’S DAUGHTER AS SPY

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20280, 14 April 1934, Page 1

PEER’S DAUGHTER AS SPY

Lived Dangerously But She Enjoyed the Work. LONDON, April 5. The will of the lion Penelope Magdalene Bovill, daughter of the first Lord Basing, who died recently at the age of sixty-eight, solves a mystery and reveals her remarkable life story. Thqugh she lived in a palatial house in Hans Place, Belgravia, she always was dressed in the meanest clothes. Her will states that since 1923 she has assisted the secret service of a Government which has investigated the doings of Communists in Russia and the Far East, where she travelled in disguise.- In her will she wrote:—‘-I have lived dangerously, but enjoyed the work, especially as otherwise I would have led a sheltered, colourless life.” The Hon Penelope Magdalene Sclater-Booth was the second daughter of the first Baron Basing, who took his title from Basingstoke, Hampshire, which he represented in the House of Commons for many years, before being raised to the peerage in 1887. In 1886 she married Mr Charles A. Bovill. and had a son and two daughters, all of whom are living.