BARONET’S HOMECOMING

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1046, 9 August 1930, Page 29

BARONET’S HOMECOMING

ROMANCE OF TITLED MAN WORKER IN HUMBLE SPHERE How Sir Reginald Wolseley, tent.i baronet of his line, who for years has earned his living in the United States, made up his mind to return home wa-« explained by his newly-made wife when she arrived in England from America a few weeks ago. Quire recently Lady Wolseley went to America to marry Sir Reginald, who. reports stated, was working as a liftman or librarian in Waterloo, She stated she wished to correct reports that had been published e* cerning her romance. “Sir Reginald and I are **ery old friends,” Lady Wolseley explained. “There is an impression that he is a working man. That is not true. The truth is that he was always delicate, and when he was 19, having no father, a friend of the family took an interest in him and sent him to Canada to do farming. He was totally unsuited for the work, and soon wandered off on another job. For 33 years he has been out there—a square peg in a round hole. “For some time he was doing ail kinds of work, but for the last few years he has been settled in one job. I would rather not say what the job is, but he has a comfortable billet, and is remaining there until I have found a house for him to come home to. He would have come home years ago. but he was too proud to be a burden to his family. Nor would he think o! coming home now to live on his wife. “F'riends of mine are helping me, and I think I shall soon be able to fix up * post for Sir Reginald in his right sphere, which is books. He is a dec.> thinker and a deep reader. It eight years since he came into th“ title, succeeding the ninth baronet. S r Capel Wolseley, but he thought it wiser not to use the title in view *i his position out there. Sir Capel s widow went out to see him, and tr»ed to persuade him to come home and take up the title, but he was too proud to do so. “A few months ago, when Sir Reginald's mother died, I received tv o letters, one addressed to me and one addressed to him. His mother’s request to me was to go and persu^d ; him to come back. Now I am going to find a home for us, probably dow?» in Devon, and when I have found it I shall cable him to come home.”