AGED WOMAN'S RECORD

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 62, 14 March 1934, Page 13

AGED WOMAN'S RECORD

ALWAYS WITH ONE FAMILY

At the age of fourteen Elizabeth Vincent wont to her first employment —as one of the undermaids in the third Lord Radstock's household. At the age of 85 she is still serving that family. Miss Vincent was promoted from her post of undermaid to be Lady Radstock's personal maid, and still later housekeeper to the family at Corfe Castle, Dorset. Now she is housekeeper to the Hon. Mrs, Edwyn Bevan, of Wray Lane House, near Eeigate, Surrey, granddaughter of the third Lord Radstock. The old lady luis covered the walls of her cosy little room at Wray Lane House with photographs of members of the family. There are pictures of quaint Victorian groups, romping children, pretty girls in their "presentation" gowns and feathers. Some of those photographed arc dead, some are married and are now the parents of yet more romping children. But Miss Vincent knew or knows, them all. and can tell the whole history of their lives and romances. "After seventy years of., sharing their joys and sorrows, I feel that the Radstock family is as close to me as my own," Miss Vincent said to an interviewer. "I have seen five generations of them grow up, and have had my part in all that has happened to them. I am immensely proud to have been in their confidence all these years." Mrs. Bevan still allows.Miss Vincent to keep all the household accounts. "She is a first-class accountant," sa'id Mrs. Bevan.