ECCENTRIC PEER’S WIDOW.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 March 1921, Page 9

ECCENTRIC PEER’S WIDOW.

FOUND DEAD IN A FLAT. London, Feb. 2. Lady Wallscourt, widow of the eccentric peer who died in April, 1920, was found dead in a Brighton flat with a glass and powders near by. She formerly kept a tobacconist’s shop at Putney, and left a note saying: “The solicitors will tell you why I put an end to my awful misery.” At the inquest a z verdict of suicide was returned. Evidence was given that Lady Wallscourt was in extreme financial difficulties.

Lord Wallscourt was prominently before the public in February. 1920, when his affairs were inquired into in the Bankruptcy Court. On that occasion he declared that his great trouble had been that he was a dipsomaniac and that explained his extravagance and the losses for which he was unable to account, He had been in trouble with the police on six occasions for drunkenness. Since his father died he had been inundated with circulars from moneylenders offering to lend him money. In explanation of his intemperate habits he would say that he was an Irishman, and from earliest childhood he saw more whisky than water. His failure was also partly due to the fact that he was born with a title, but without? an income to k&ep it up. People to think that because he was a* lord he must have money.