HONEYMOON IN ICELAND.

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 3, 4 January 1936, Page 8

HONEYMOON IN ICELAND.

LORD AND LADY BRIDPORT

VISITORS FOR NEW ZEALAND

Sydney at the moment is inundated with beautiful visitors from overseas, and the latest to arrive is Viscountess Bridport, who with her husband, was a passenger on the Marella, which arrived from the East on December 23, states the "Sydney Morning Herald." Lord and Lady Bridport are in the course of a world tour, and after remaining in Sydney for ten days will join Zane Grey's fishing camp in New Zealand.

Neither Lord Bridport nor Lady, Bridport has attempted big game fishing hitherto, but Lady Bridport is a keen sportswoman. She plays tennis and golf and hunts with the Beauford and Old Berks packs; she said that she was longing to try the surf for the first time.

Before her marriage 18 months ago Lady Bridport was Miss Pamela Baker, daughter of Mr. Charles Baker, of Letcombe Manor, Wantage, Berkshire. She became engaged to her husband at Colombo, where they were both holidaying. Their wedding took place at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, and as it was a naval wedding—her husband, now retired, was a 1 lieutenant on the cruiser H.M.S. Daring—she was attended by, three pages dressed in seventeenth century naval uniforms.

As they had spent their English winter in the tropics they decided to go north for their honeymoon and chose an unusual cruise to Iceland and Spitzbergen, which is only 600 miles from the North Pole. At the latter place. Lady Bvidport said, they saw nothing but icebergs and polar bears; it was too treacherous to land,anywhere, but it was exciting to watch the ship threading its way through the icebergs. Lo'-d and Lady Bridporfs families are closely allied, «s Lord Bridporfs sister married Lady Bridporfs brother, Mr. David Baker. He and the Honourable Mrs. David Baker were in. Sydney last year. Lady Bridport knows many Australians abroad and she was at school in Paris with Lady Jersey, whose beauty she admires. A cousin who met the ship was Mrs. H. T. C. Walker, wife of Captain Walker of H.M.A.S. Canberra. LETTER FROM THE WAR ZONE. This is Lady Bridporfs first Christmas away from home, and she was feeling rather sad about it, remembering big family parties.with the children of the various branches of the family gathered together, and Santa Claus giving out gifts from a Christmas tree. But there was a large bundle of home mail awaiting her arrival at the Hotel Australia. , One letter she had was from the Honourable Patrick Balfour, who, until recently, was in Abyssinia as Press correspondent for a London newspaper. He told her there was no war news procurable in Abyssinia and, amusingly enough, they had to wait for broadcasts from America and London to learn what they themselves were doing in Abyssinia. . Among Lady Bridporfs many interests is drawing, and she intends to resume her art studies when she returns to London in six months' time. Lora and Lady Bridport recently travelled through Java, and they will return to England via America. On their return Lord Bridport intends to take up politics, and as his old family home, Cricket-St.-Tho.mas. has been sold—the purchaser was an Australian woman — he will buy a house in London. ,