LUCKY BARMAID

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 359, 21 October 1932, Page 2

LUCKY BARMAID

HUSBAND TURNS OUT TO BE HEIR TO A TITLE. SHE IS NOW A COUNTESS. A Lincolnshire girl, the daughter o: a Scunthorpe hotel licensee, has be countess. She is Mrs. Marjorii Baynton, elder daughter of Mr. an Mrs. Arthur Grayson, with whom sh Lives at Scunthrope, and wife of Mr [iichard Waldegrave Baynton, of Chat liam, who is general manager of a wel known store at Gillingham. The husband is stated to have un sxpectedly inherited the title of Coun Waldegrave Baynton, with the family leat of Gorballis Castle, County Wick

Miss Grayson was married to Mr. Baynton in 1927, and there is one child, a boy of three, Patrick Michael. While Mr. Baynton is away on business, his wife serves in the bar of her parents' hotel. Mr. Baynton has been informed by the administrators of the estate that he is the heir to it, and the family crest of the Bayntons has been handed to him. Both Mr. Baynton and his father, who died some time ago, were at one tima well known at Scunthorpe. • Mr. Baynton, sen., was the musical .director at the Palace Theatre, while his son was engaged in the town as an electrieian. Mrs. Baynton, wh'o is twenty-seven, stated that it was quite true her husband had become Count Waldegrave Baynton. Asked if it- was likely she and her husband would live at Corballis Castle, Mrs. Baynton replied that it was possible. "We shall certainly go there," she Went on. "I have never beeh there, but I have photographs of it." • A Pope's Title. 1 In an interview,- Mr. Baynton, who is twenty-five, confirmed his wife's statement. "I lived at Corballis Castle as a child until 1919, '? he explained. "Then my family left Ireland owing to the rebellion, and came to England to live. Some years ago my . father reeeived his title from the Pope, but he never uused it, and when he died no docuipents were found re- ( lating to the title or to the castle. My mother, who is in London, and a friend are making investigations, "The castle is now unoecupiect, and it .is in a very- bad, state. of. repair. There was a caretaker there for a few years, out after he left the place was tempty. I have no money -to put the castle in rep'air, but I think there j must be some money soniewhere, as ' my father was a keen business "man." Questioned whether he .intended using the title, Mr. Baynton replied: "I see no reason for doing so. What is the use of a title nowadays ? I have to earn my living, and g, title won't help^fflp :