BARONET HAWKER
FLORIST AND GRKENQK.C CER. LONDON, April 12. Sir George Beaumont, the. eleventh, baronet, of (Jole Orton Hal!, Leicester shire has started business as a florist and greengrocer, and yesterday toured Leicestershire villages in a van, selling the produce of bis own gardens. He decided to 'do this, he stated, because a local shop charged him 3d for a lettuce which he grew himecii and sold for a penny. Sir George drove trie van, which is painted in his racing colours, and wjib the help of a white-coated salesman did a splendid • tia<lc. He gave advice on cultivation to those who bought plants, and is arranging for Hie van to visit focal markets.
Sir George is -head of a family which i<3 descended in a direct paternal line from King Louis VJII. of Franco.
The Beaumonts have live.cL at. Cole 'Orton since the days of King Edward IV. Sir George, who is 52, was knownas flic “bachelor baronet,” because, as he said, bh had never met a woman he loved •'better than his mother, but, nine years ago lie married Renee, daughter of Gelt. 'Sir Edward Xorthey, a former Governor of Kenya Colony.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1933, Page 3
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194BARONET HAWKER Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1933, Page 3
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