DECLARATION OF LEGITIMACY
CHILDREN OF SIR HENRY DE BATHE TITLE NOT AFFECTED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, February 22. (Received February 23, at 8.50 a.m.) An interesting application under the Legitimacy Act~ 1926, was heard by Mr Justice Hill, who granted a declaration of legitimacy to Ladies Burnham and Somerleyton, Mrs M'Caljnont and Maximilian John De 15a <®n, all children of Sir Henry and Lady Charlotte de Bathe, who lived together for thirteen years before marriage in 1870, owing to objections by Sir Henry’s father to the marriage. The four above children were born before the marriage, which took place following the death of the objecting parent. It. was pointed out that the declaration did net affect the do Bathe title, the Act specially stipulating that nothing therein could transmit the right of succession of the present holder, Sir Hugo de Bathe, who married the actress Mrs Langtry, and who was the younger son of the same union and was horn after the marriage.
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Evening Star, Issue 19798, 23 February 1928, Page 5
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163DECLARATION OF LEGITIMACY Evening Star, Issue 19798, 23 February 1928, Page 5
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