“JOLLY GOOD FELLOWS"

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 923, 17 March 1930, Page 1

“JOLLY GOOD FELLOWS"

PERSONAL STAFF OF LORD BLEDISLQE ARRIVALS BY CORiNTHIC Passengers on the Corinthic enjoyed the companionship of Major A. H. Bathurst and Sir John Hanham, two members of the new Governor-Gen-eral’s staff, during the voyage from England. They joined in the entertainments on board and as one passenger remarked,” They were such jolly good fellows that they made the voyage for us.” Major Bathurst was accompanied by | his wife. Sir John is a single man, 32 years of age. Both are relatives of the new Governor-General; Sir John is a nephew and Major Bathurst a younger brother. Major Bathurst will act as military and private secretary to Lord Bledisloe. He has seeu a great deal of active service and latterly he has done social welfare work in London. He was educated at Oxford and joined the Royal Berkshire Regiment in 1884. Later he became aide-de-camp to the Governor of Barbadoes and when the South African war broke out he went there with his regiment. During that time he was promoted to the rank of captain and transferred to the Manchester Regiment. After the South African war he joined the volunteer movement in England, spent two years attached to headquarters at Aldershot Command and from 1908 to 1912 was attached to the general staff of the Irish Command. Just before the Great War, Major Bathurst retired from the army but rejoined 'when hostilities began, serving in England and France. When he retired again from the army he was personal private secretary to the Under Secretary of the Colonial Office, then Mr. Edward Wood, who is now Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India. Sir John Hanham is the 10th baronet and succeeded to the tile in 1911. He was educated at Winchester and later went to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took his M.A. degree. Sir John is a keen botanist and sportsman and is anxious to see the South Island, where he hopes to do some deer stalking. Some years ago he went to Greenland with the Oxford Expedition which was commanded bv I Dr.. T. G. Longstaff, with Major J. G. Kingston, of Everset fame, as second in command. Sir John was interpreter and botanist. The expedition made a study of birds, plants and insects. The young aide-de-camp was in the Grenadier Guards and was wounded in the Great War. After the war he was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple. His home is In Dorset.