DEATH IN POVERTY

Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1933, Page 7

DEATH IN POVERTY

ENGLISH TIIILE WITHOUT MONEY'

A career of travel and adventure vvliiclr began when he left Eton, and included sendee in the South African and great wans closed a few weeks ago when the death at Poughill, near Bude, Cornwall, of Lord Haldon at the age of' 63. He died in comparative poverty, having inherited the title of third baron in 1003 ‘‘without a penny piece attaching to it.” Lord Haldbu was twice married. His second wife, whom he married in 1929, was found dead at the foot of Black Rook, Brighton, in May the following year. An open verdict was returned at the inquest. Their financial circumst'.nccs at the time were so strained that they lived in a bedsitting room at Brixton a ( s Air and Mi's Haldon. • Once! when involved in a dispute with a company that had paid him €lO for the use of his name rV ,a director., Lord Haldon frankly admitted that “if I could sell my title for a few hundreds' I would gladly do so.” He is succeeded by his son, the Hon. Lawrence Edward Broomfield Pa lk.