NEW TOWN HOUSE

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 450, 4 June 1937, Page 3

NEW TOWN HOUSE

GIFT TO MR BALDWIN Son-in-law’s Generos’ty London, May 15. Mr Oliver Baldwin, the Prime Minister’s son, revealed that his father's new house in Katos Square, W., was ‘‘a gift to him from a friend, which would enable him to keep his large library in London.” It is understood! that the house is the gift of the Premier’s son-in-law, Captain the Hon. Arthur J. P. Howard, wealthy company director and brother of Lord Stratlieona. Captain Howard inherited a large part of the fortune of his mother, the late Lady Strathcona, who died eleven years ago. Her estate, never disclosed, was estimated to have totalled between £5,000,000 and £6,000,000. Fought in War. He is a Scots Guardsman, three times wounded in the Great War. He married the Premier’s eldest daughter Lorna in 1922. They have four children. Mr and Mrs Baldwin have already taken formal possession of their new town house. The house has ten bedrooms and is 120 years old, but. is well equipped with bathrooms. Mr Baldwin has a large library of the classics, which he reads extensively, but he Is also a great collector of detective thrillers.