Ex-War Chief Baronet Must Share His Child
Head of the British Intelligence Service in America during the war, and now a prominent banker, Sir William George Eden Wiseman, Bt., was defendant in a law dispute over the custody of his eight-year-old daughter which was settled in New York recent-
His former wife, Lady Patrice Virginia Wiseman, had accused her husband of withholding their daughter Sheila from her in violation of an agreement signed prior to their 'Reno divorce in 1933.
A settlement was reached whereby Lady Wiseman will share her child’s custody.
She had charged her husband with keeping tho child “prisoner” in his home.
“Wo agreed to do nothing to alienate the love of our daughter,” she said. “I have sufficient means to maintain a suitable home for my daughter. “My former husband pays me, £1,440 a year.” Sir William, who is now guiding partner in the big banking house ot Kuhn, Loeb and Co., was formerly of the British Foreign Office. Two and One. Daughter: “But, Dad, don’t you believe that two can live as cheaply as one?”
Dad; “Sure; your mother and I are living as cheaply as you.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 31, 6 February 1937, Page 9 (Supplement)
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192Ex-War Chief Baronet Must Share His Child Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 31, 6 February 1937, Page 9 (Supplement)
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