M.P’s. DIVORCE COSTS
WIFE ORDERED TO PAY CUNNINGHAM-REID SUIT LONDON, July 1. | Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham- : Reid, M.P. for St. Marylebone, was granted a decree nisi in the Divorce Court on the ground of misconduct by his wife, the Hon. Ruth Mary Clarisse Ashley, who reverted to her maiden name of Ashley last year. The corespondent was M. Henri Garat, French film actor. The suit was not defended. Costs were awarded against Mrs. Ashley, and Captain Cunningham-Reid was given custody of their elder son. I Mrs. Ashley, a daughter of the first I Baron Mount Temple, was co-heiress to the fortune of her grandfather, the ’ late Sir Ernest Cassel. It was said that she marked Cap- ’ tain Cunningham-Reid at St. Mar- ’ garet’s, Westminster, in 1927, when [ she was 19. Captain Cunningham-Reid’s case was that the marriage was very happy until 1936. In December .that ! year his wife left him. Witnesses from France wore called to support an allegation of misconduct by Mrs. Ashley and M. Garat at' a , villa at Antibes, near Cannes, last August.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20021, 21 August 1939, Page 8
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175M.P’s. DIVORCE COSTS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20021, 21 August 1939, Page 8
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