BEATTY’S OLD NURSE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1995, 26 June 1919, Page 1

BEATTY’S OLD NURSE.

THE ADMIRAL AS A BABY. On the occasion of Admiral Beatty’s visit to Chester to receive the honorary freedom of the city, one of the most interested spectators Wits the Admiral’s old nurse, Mrs Annie Bywntcr. who, as Miss Annie Cartwright, tended him and itis brothers when they were babies. Sir David welcomed the old lady in the Mayor’s parlour, and spoke to her with the simple and unalTeeled kindliness which characterises him, and while he bent down to catch what his old nurse was saying she slipped into one of the pockets of his coat u packet of photographs, eight in all. They were, as she herself says, her most treasured possessions, and they included pictures of the Admiral's parents and brothers, taken nearly 50 years ago. Asked what the Admiral was like when he was a little follow, Mrs Bywater replied:—“He was a lively little darling. I just worshipped him. Nobody could help loving him.. 1 always noticed one thing because it ■seemed so strange. What do yon think it was? Well, even when he was a baby he would never go to his bath unless he had a ship with him.”