VISITED BY QUEENS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 570, 24 January 1929, Page 13

VISITED BY QUEENS

"GODMOTHER'* OF VILLAGE DIED AGED 103 A remarkable woman died recently at the age of 105. She v. as Mrs. Eleanor Coats Tyldeu, a friend of queens, and "fairy godmother of Ingoldisthorpe.*’ of which little Norfolk village, now mourning for her, she was lady of the manor, She had been confined to her room in the manor house since last December. On her hundredth birthday she was visited by Queen Mary. Queen Alexandra, and the Queens of Norway. Spain, and Rumania She was a good conversational;si. fond of playing the piano, a skilled needlewoman, devoted to charitable work:*, a regular attendant at church, and took an active interest in politics. When she was 103 years old, she wrote a letter to a local Labour candidate, severely trouncing him for his views, and at the last election she borrowed the doctor’s motor-car to record her vote. She disliked modern novels, modern fashions, modern manners. broadcasting, and jazz music. Less than two years ago Phe could sit down at the piano and play a piece by Mendelssohn. Mrs. Tyldeu was the second daughter of the Rev. J. W. Bellamy, headmaster of Merchant Taylors’ School, and her mother was the daughter of Thomas Cherry, also a headmaster of this school. She married in 1850 the Rev. William Tyldeu. then rector of Stamford, Kent. In 1573 her husband was presented with the living of Dersingham. Norfolk, and he died shortly afterwards. Her surviving son is General William Tylden, R.F.A., whose home is near Hythe.