DEATH IN A WORKHOUSE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9138, 14 July 1908, Page 3

DEATH IN A WORKHOUSE.

SOCIETY BEAUTY'S END.

An interesting figure was laid to irest at Woodchester Church, Stroud, in the person of Mrs Alice White, formerly Lady Baghott, who died at Stroud Union Workhouse on May 2nd at the age of ninety-two. A girl of "extreme loveliness, she was married in 1837 to the late Sir Paul Baghott, ••of The Priory, Woodchester, in whose house she had served as maid to his daughters. The marriage caused a .:great sensation at the time, but Lady Bagrott's beauty won all hearts, and she became a society toast under the name of the "Gloucestershire Belle." Sir Paul and his lady had one son, born in 1838, but in the same year the former died at the age of sixtysix years, and was buried at King Stanley, near Stroud. Sir Paul owned several large esitatas in the county of Gloucester, notably, at one time, the beautiful Park, Stroud. room in the Mansion House at has always been pointed out definite place where the Gun,powiler Plot conspirators met to promote their scheme. The son of Sir Faul and Lady Bag-.-hott died at the early age of twentyeight. Following great monetary :i1'j3333. Lady Baghott and her son ..lived in straitened circumstances, and fAu'pugh the friendly interest of thu line Dr John Williams, for thirty years rector of Woodchester, she was appointed to one of the five dame schools in the parish. She retired in 1849, and married Elijah White, carpenter, who prodaceasad,,her some years ago. Prior to his death, Dr Williams secured to her for life the cottage in which aslie was born and lived to within a '■ short time of her death, her removal .to the workhouse being necessitated by increasing feebleness and the inability of her duughtar, Catherine White, to pr6perly attend to her. Her funeral was attended by a -crowd of friends and villagers, the •expenses being borne by a number of . friends, so that the former Lady Baghott was spared the ignominy of a pauper's grave.