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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 48, 20 November 1926, Page 26

TWINS AS LADY MAYORESSES « — For the first time in the history of Loudon there will be at the Mansion House during the next Mayoral year (says the London “Daily Mail 1 two young women with equal right to deputise for the Lady Mayoress and to share her duties on occasions. They are the 18-vear-old twin daughters. Margaret and ’Elizabeth, of Sir Rowland Blades. M.P.. who has been chosen by the liverymen of the guilds of the City of London to he Lord Mayor for the civic year beginning on November 9. The Misses Blades are at present at school in Paris, but they arc to return home when their father goes to the Mansion House. When Lady Blades, their mother is absent from London, they can both claim to bo entitled to act in her stead. The new Lord Mayor will be the first holder of the office also a member of Parliament since the late Sir Charles A. Hanson, who was M.P. for Bodmin while nt the Mansion House in 1917-18. Sir Rowland Blades was senior sheriff of the City while Sir Charles Hanson was Lord Mayor.