PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 31, 8 February 1915, Page 2

PERSONAL.

The death of Miss Lily Dumpier, the actress, is announced from Melbourne.

Lady Eileen Knox, second daughter of Lord and Lady Raui'urly, was married at the end of November at fet. Saviour’s Church, London, to Mr Charles Loraine Carlos Clark. 'lhe bridegroom is a second lieutenant in the Royal Bucks Hussars, and is expecting to be ordered abroad.

Mrs Parker, of New Zealand, a sister of Lord Kitchener, at present in London, is one of the moving spirits in the organising of the British Women’s War Clubs tor the wives and women relatives of soldiers and sailors on active service. Mrs Parker has been campaigning in the north of England and Scotland to get money and helpers for the establishment of these clubs.

Mine. Maggie Stirling’s daughter Mary is to marry Dr Stuart P. Groom on February 16th. The Dean of Melbourne, who was the officiating clergyman at Mine. Stirling’s wedding, will be the celebrant for her daughter. Misses Nellie Stewart, of “Habbies Howe,” Seymour, Margaret Furze, of New. South Wales, A. Graham, and C. Barrett will he the bridesmaids.

Lady Maxwell, the American wife of Sir John Grenfell Maxwell,, who is in command of the British forces in Egypt at the present time, is one of the two pretty and highly-placed daughters of Mrs Bonynge, formerly of New York, Viscountess Deerhurst being the other. Lady Maxwell married her distinguished husband in 1892. Since then she was shown herself a true soldier’s, wife, and will comport herself bravely whatever may happen in Egypt. During the most difficult period of the South African war, Sir John Maxwell was made Governor, of Pretoria, and there his wife joined him and threw herself into the task of caring for the sick and wounded when no other officer’s wife was in the town. She spent two years in Pretoria, and returned Home by way of Natal, where she went over all the battlefields. She has many hobbies. Music is a passion with her, and she sings well. Hiding is her favorite exercise. Her husband, who is a Knight Commander of the Bath, has been in the service ever since 1879. Ho commanded the Second Egyptian Brigade at the battle of Omdurmaii, and won added renown in the South African campaign, being many times mentioned in dispatches. He is a crack shot with the rifle.