BEATTY’S OLD NURSE.
THE ADMIRAL AS A BABY. t On the occasion of Admiral Beatty’s visit to Chester to receive the honorary freedom of the city, one of the most interested spectators was the Admiral’s old nurse, Mrs Annie Bywater,- who, as Miss Annie Cartwright, tended him j and his brothers when th*v were babies. Sir David welcomed the old lady in the Mayor’s parlour, and spoke to her with the simple and unaffected kindness which characterises him, and' while lie bent down to catch what his old nurse was saving she slipped into one of the pockets of Iris coat a packet of photographs.' eight in all. They were, as she herself says, her most trea.'. -uiml 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 fellow, Mrs Bvwater replied:—“He was a lively little darling. I just worshipped him. Nobody could help loving him. I always noticed one thing because it seemed so strange. What do you think it was? Well, even when he was a baby he "would never go to bis bath unless he had a ship ; w ith him. ’ ’
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Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 30 June 1919, Page 4
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