SOCIETY MARRIAGE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 62, 6 December 1907, Page 3

SOCIETY MARRIAGE.

1 BY TELEGKAPH —rBESS ASSOCIATION-^-COrTBIGHT. Londoiii December i. j The Right Rev. Dr. Ingram, Bishop o! > London, officiated at tho marriage of th< > Lord Chancellor, Lord Lornburn, to Miss ' Hicks-Beach. The marriage was tho first over solemnised . in the crypt.'chapel' at Wostminster Hall . Thore was a largo gathering of societj - people. i ' ■ .—;— ? A great deal of interest has been taken ii English legal and political circles in th( ' engagement of the Lord Chancellor, Baroi Loreburn, of Dumfries, to Miss Violet Eliza \ both Hicks-Beach, tho daughter of Mr. W '• F. H. Hicks-Beach, of Witcombo Park, Glou I cestershire. To a New Zealander, ignorani i of Westminster Hall, it sounds as thougl thero might bo a more felicitous choice oi a wedding-place, and it is easy to believe that the first wedding would also ho th< ■ last. But thero are crypts and crypts.'Lore ' Loroburn, who was created a peer lastyoar ' was born in 1846, being the second son oi \ Sir James John Reid, of Monswald Place B Dumfries. Ho was educated at Chelteiv ham College, and at Balliol College, Oxford where ho had a distinguished career,,winning the Ireland Scholarship in 1868. He wai .called to the Bar. in 1871, and was made Q.C. in 1882, having been elected to the Houso of Commons for Hereford two yean I previously. He was Solicitor-General ir , 1894, ■ and • Attorney-General from 1886 tc „ 1905. Ho was decorated for his services j? in connection with tho Venezuela Boundar; Arbitration Commission. It was Miss Susai: ',' Hicks-Beach, probably a sister of Lady Lore- '" burn, who was the model for the Britannic e on the now penny of King Edward's reign,