Viscount Advertises “Not Responsible Wife’s Debts"

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 484, 13 October 1928, Page 27

Viscount Advertises “Not Responsible Wife’s Debts "

N advertisement in an English newspaper recently stated that Viscount Adare, of 44 Seymour Street, W„ would not be respon-

sible for any debts incurred in future by his wife, and that she had no authority to pledge his credit, as “she is and has been in receipt of an adequate allowance.” Notice was also given by the trustees of a deed of settlement dated October 25, 1915, in favour of Viscountess Adare, that they ware not and never had been liable for any debts incurred by her. Lar.' Adarr said to a reporter that she had no knowledge of any reason for the two announcements, the second of which she surmised referred to her marriage settlement. She added: I was not aware of my husband’s intention to cause these notices to be issued, and I really have not the foggiest notion what they are about or what has inspired them. They have not caused me any distress—in fact, I am very much amused. NO SEPARATION Lord Adare has gone to Ireland. I saw him yesterday. The previous occasion on which I saw him was two months ?*=°» when he suddenly arrived at the house and sent in a message asking if he could talk to me.

There is no actual separation, although lately, it is true, I have not seen much of him. Viscountess Adare before her marriage in 1915 was Miss Helen Swire, daughter of Mr. John Swire, of Hillingdon House, Harlow, Essex. Her husband, who is 41, is a retired captain of 12th Dancers, and was Master of the Horse and Military Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 191 S to 1921.