EARL'S ROMANCE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 113, 26 November 1915, Page 4 (Supplement)

EARL'S ROMANCE.

WORKED AS LABOURER IX NEW ZEALAND.

The Lancashire baronet, Sir Lees Knowles, who is nearly 60, will, save the "Daily Despatch," become a mem. her of one of the most remarkable families in the Scottish peerage by his forthcoming marriage to Lady Nina Ogilvie Grant, who is 31 years of age. Lady Nina is sister of tho Earl ef Sealield, chief of the Clan Grant. Her mother, tho dowager countess, has had a romantic career. When she married the late earl, he was a working man, shouldering his pick and shovel, tho exiled son of au ancient nice, in New Zealand, and she was a major's daughter. In 18**8 this peer, Lady Nina's father, came into the earldom, but died of heart disease a few months later.

Sir Lees Knowkv-'s future brother-in-law, tho Earl of Sealield, is the eldest of the workman peer's six children, and is 3!). He also married a Hew Zealand lady (Miss Towncnd, daughter of tho late' Dr. Towncnd, who lived in England), and her name, too, is Nina, and so is that of her little daughter. The. family is enormously wealthy, and there have been extraordinary elements of romance in the story ot the famous Seafield estates. Sir Lees Knowles, who inherited much wealth on the death of his father, a great coal owner, was Unionist member for West Salford lor a considerable period.