CLAIM TO THE PEERAGE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 260, 9 December 1909, Page 2

CLAIM TO THE PEERAGE.

ESTABLISHING THE LEGITIMACY OF A BIRTH. By QaMe.—Press Association.—Copyright London, December 7. An action was brought at the courh sessions in Edinbr gh by Mr. Alexander Wentworth MncdonHu Bosville, an H.ig lish landowner. H Lord Macdonaui of Sleat, seeking for a decision that his grandfather, born on September 12,1800, was the legitimate peer, subsequent to matrimony. The action lias bei-n (lis missed as far as the relationship i« concerned, but the parties allowed a proof on tbe question of legitimacy. Ae;if<lirg to the statement of claim the - laimant's great-grandfather eloped with Miss Laconst, an illegitimate daughter of tbe Duke of Gloucester, and married lier at the British Bmbassy in Paris. A son and a daughter were born. Subsequently Lady Macdonald insisted on being regularly married in England, und a second son was afterwards bom. The claim was then raised that the second marriage deprived the two elder children of the advantage of being born in wedlock. Mr. Bosville made a claim to the Scotch estates of the family or to the Irish peerage, only to have the legitimacy of his grandfather established.