EARL OF HARDWICKE
WIFE SUES FOR DIVORCE
London, November 22.
The Countess of Hardwicke, formerly Miss Nellie Russell, of Auckland, New Zealand, has obtained a decree nisi in an undefended petition for divorce on the ground of the Earl of Hardwicke’s misconduct. The marriage took place in London in 1911. The only’ child is a girl, now fourteen years old. The husband began to associate with other women during the war, according to evidence, and the petitioner forgave him, but in consequence of his behaviour she left him in 1920. The Earl suggested a separation, admitting that he alone was responsible for the trouble. Petitioner tried to induce her husband to return, hoping he would reform, but the Earl had refused to return. Letters read from the Earl to the Countess admitted that he was solely to blame, bitt declined the Countess’s suggestion that they should resume their relationship,’if only for the sake of the child.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 51, 24 November 1926, Page 11
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156EARL OF HARDWICKE Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 51, 24 November 1926, Page 11
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