COLONEL MEEKING'S DEATH.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 13976, 8 May 1913, Page 7

COLONEL MEEKING'S DEATH.

Press Association.—Telegraph.—Copyright Received May 8, 1 p.m. LONDON, May 7. At the inquest on Colonel 'Meeting, a verdict was returned that death was due to natural causes.

By order of the Home 0(1 iw? F'e exhumation took place at Per Chore ayard, Bucks, of the remains of CoVH Char’es Mccking, I’d Battalion Oxfords! ire Ligi.t •nfantiy. who die t at fc*«. 1 w'Un c;donee, Belgrade Square, on Ma’cn 1-t, 1912, at the age of 72, An exan innlio.i »a-i male by . the Home Office experts, and the holy was rc-intrv—ed. Colonel Mcekiug was n prominent ;vsidert in Hie Ivrr distri't. and >t'< • e.enu’.al estate of the net value o' over -tinH 1,0. )■.!, His firs!:- wife, v.To died in ms a daughter of l ady Bo;dna Tower, of Hiiiitsmoro Park. leer. 0; Cat marriage there were three sous and tw > dauglit is. Two of the roes succumbed to enteric, fever in South Africa (luring the Boer War. and the third son died about four years ago. Of the daughters, one was killed in a .carriage accident ouUWe the gate of Richiugs I’ark, the family peat at Ivor, in 1892. and the other daughter, who survives, is the wife of Lieutenant-Colonel 11. Vnrdo Butler. In IEO 7 Colonel Meeting married as lie second wife a young ■ French lady, danTbtor of the late M. Tonis D. E. A. Dedorm de Pierrefcu, Comto tie Coll guy. and Conni of the Holy Roman Empire. They entertained a good deal, and were well known in the Isle of .Wight, where the colonel was a member of tho Royal Yacht Club There was one daughter of tho second marriage, Tho colonel's last illness, it i; stated, was only one of two or thrso days’ duration. A doctor's certificate wasgiven, and it is understood the cause o' death was staled to bo senile decay.