WISH FOR SECLUSION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 270, 15 November 1932, Page 5

WISH FOR SECLUSION

LORD SUDELEY’S DEATH NURSED BY FORMER WIFE Lord Sudeley, who died, at the age of 62, at his country house near Wallingford, Berkshire, on September 5, gave instructions before he died that no announcement of his death should be made until the day of the funeral; that the funeral should be attended only by his legal adviser, and that there should be no memorial service and no flowers. These requests, which were faithfully observed, were in keeping with Lord Sudeley’s life long wish for seclusion. Lord Sudeley suvceeded his father in the title ten years ago, but some years previously the family estate had to bo sold. In 1905 he married the youngest daughter of the late Lprd Frascis Cecil, but the marriage xvas dissolved in 1922. She and Lord Sudeley, however, remained on terms of friendship, and she helped to nurse him during his last illness, being with him when be died. IV hen Lord Sudeley was 44 he volunteered for service in the. war. and became a captain in the Irish Guards. He was wounded in France and invalided, homo, but never entirolv recovered from the effects of his injuries.