DEATHBED WEDDING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 299, 19 December 1933, Page 9

DEATHBED WEDDING

BRIDE A WIDOW IN TWO DAYS. A deathbed wedding in a Kensington nursing homo was revealed on October 13. Mr. Frank Russell Hudson, a retired naval officer, died on the previous night ;n the presence of his bride, Miss Margaret Preece, who had hardly loft the bedside since their marriage by special license two days before. Mr. Hudson was 62 and Mrs. Hudson 61. They had been friends for years. About, a year ago Mr. Hudson’s first wife died rtnd he became engaged to Miss Preece this year. They decided to be married in London and afterward to live at Mentone on the Riviera. The wedding was arranged to take place in London on October 17. but Mr. Hudson was taken suddenly ill. In the nursing homo he repeatedly expressed a wish to bo married as quickly as possible. “It was as though he had a foreboding that ho would die,” said a friend. Officials at the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Faculty Office did all they could to rush through the formalities of f special license. The Archbishop’s sig nature was obtained only a few minuter before he loft London. Within less than an hour of th< license being delivered to Miss Precc< the Rev. Hubert J. Matthews, vicar o( St. Jude’s, performed the manage ceremony at the nursing home.