ARISTOCRATIC JARS
UNUSUAL 'ADVERTISEMENTS IN THE PRESS. It is not often that members of the British aristocracy— and the creme de la creme at that-ventilate their differences in advertisements in the newspapers It has been left for Lord ■ Dalmeny,- Lord .Koseberrs heir, to achieve this notoriety. Lord Dalmeny nunouncod hy advertisement on June 2G that ho would not ba responsible for any debts contracted bv his wife. On tho Tuesday the following advertisement by Lady Dalniony appeared in "Tho Times":—. "With reference to the announcement in tho public Press by Lord Dalmeny thnfcjie wonld not bo responsible for any debts, I, Dorothy Dalmeny, commonly called Lady Dalmeny, hereby declare that the sum total of my indebteness at the TTCsent date is represented by thefollowin» figures on my personal account:— To Child's Bunk, 4JIC4 6s. .£llO 15s. 6d.; Mnxwell, £12 95.; H. Jackson and Co., JC!) Bs. 5(1.; Adele Vonct, £30 l"s.; Hamleyßros.. £1 3s: -W.; Mr. Ackland, £3 35.; Emilc, Ltd., £1 fc. id.; Ware, Ltd., £22 Is.: Rowland Ward .£2 Ws.; Barrett and Sons, .£23 195.; Burberrjs, ,C2l 35.; F/Sther, Ltd., .£43 Is.; /-vrot, ,C 72 175.; Garrards. £\S lfe.; ITooper and Co., £16 75.; Callot Soeurs, .£77 m^.; IJoueh and Co.. £5 lGs. 3d.; Pytchley Gnni«<!. £1Q fls. 9d.; Bartley, £1 1-is.; Brigg nnd Son, £G fls. 6d.; National Linen Co., £2 Us. Od.—total, .£GGG Jss. .Id. "On my household account represented by a bank overdraft which has accumulated sinco tho year 1910, and which Lord Dalmeny from timo to fimo has had full knowledge of, and until the recent advertisement has never objected to. "And T further dec-litre that since my marriase in IM9 Lord Dalmeny has never made iinv payment on my account beyond a certain fixed personal allowance which has never weeded -ClflllO n year, and nn allowance fur household expenses which lias never exceeded ,£looo.a year." Lady Dalmonv, llio younger daughter of I lie late Lord Henry Grnsvenor, was married in Iflflfl lo Lni-d Dalmeny. heir' In f,ord EosebciT. They havo a son called Archibald, after his grandfather, nT)f ) a daughter, Holcii.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3184, 7 September 1917, Page 5
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348ARISTOCRATIC JARS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3184, 7 September 1917, Page 5
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