A MODERN COPHETUA.
' The romantic engagement of the Master of Kinloss to Miss Jackman, the winsome daughter of the village blacksmith, has been publicly confirmed, writes the special correspondent of tlio . "Daily News." The Baroness Kinloss, the Master of Kinloss's mother, as the elder daughter of the last Duko of Buckingham and Chandos, is the owner ,of Stowe House, one of tlio largest and most famous of England's ancestral homes. The 'new? lias created a great -stir ill the villages around the'great house, with its'twomile long' avenue of stately old beech trees, for some pieplant situations will arise in the Coming relationship between tile heir to this barony of tlio opening: days of the seventeenth century and the humble village family living at his gates. Tlio present chaulTcur of the master will become lii's brother-in-law, and the head gardener of Stowe House will become related to Iris master, by virtue of having married ono of the ' future peeress's Blstei'B.
These, little mailer's, however, are hardly likely "to -worry the Master'of KiriloK?, who;'if not' exactly ]hail-fellOw-well-iiiet' witli the countryside,' is far more' ihtini.ato -with the ,peoplo around the estate and in the town of Buckingham than is usiial with members of Eng. lish aristocratic.familie*.' Ho has made no secret of his courtship of the villago ■ blacksmith's diifS-'h-.ter;in .fact, had the prospective bridegroom' been.-ill a less exalted station of lifo the countryside would-have'roundly declared that Katie—tlio familiar name, by 'which tlie futuro .peeress is known— 1 has bean "walking out" with him for jreark Actually.' the couple.have known each. other, for over 15 years—tho Master, isi.iiw :U "land his financee as ft Tonfii tlie heir, .to the estate visited tlio liUi?- forgo built into the large.red brick' cotta'go sheltering, under llie trues just bevond the grounds of the big lionse. .!rlie jlaster of Kinioss and his nnanceo were, most frequently seen driving into Northampton;., where, of courso, tlio futuro peer is very well known, fur on taking-, holy orders'liv •ho was a* pointed a .curate at at. Sepulcliie, 0110 of the few round churches of-tho knights Templar-left in' England. ■ .■ Tno Ma«ter lios pwached at churches in tlio County of • Buckingham, and is re-, puted'to-be able to-deliver a sttriing understood that the: blacksmith's pretty doughtor. will nover reignat the majestic bouse on' the lull;', for-it Is the intention of the Baroness to seek the consent of the. Courts' to sell-not. .only the almost priceless ■ c°pton « of house,' but also tlie building itself.. .
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 62, 7 December 1920, Page 4
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409A MODERN COPHETUA. Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 62, 7 December 1920, Page 4
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