SHIPBOARD ROMANCE
MARQUIS MARRIES ORPHAN.
EVENT OF FIFTY YEARS AGO RECALLED.
By the death of the 90-year-old Marquis of Ailsa a shipboard romance of nearly 50 years ago is recalled. Deeply affected by the death of his first wife in 1888, the marquis was ordered a long sea voyage. On the homeward journey from Bombay Lord Ailsa was asked to look after a friendless orphan girl. He fell in love with his quiet-man-nered charge, and before the ship had reached Malta he had asked her to marry him. The girl at first refused on the ground that she was “not fit to become a marchioness.” Lord Ailsa insisted, and they were married on their return to England.
When the Miner M.P., Mr James Brown, was made Lord High Commissioner to the Church of Scotland, Lady Ailsa was one of Mrs Brown’s iadies-in-waiting. Lord Ailsa served on Mr Brown’s staff.
As a boy of 14, Lord Ailsa attempted a voyage from the coast to Arran in a tub with a paddle and a sponge. The attempt failed, and the tub was "wrecked” in an Ayrshire cove. His death took place at Culzean Castle, his Ayrshire home.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1938, Page 4
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195SHIPBOARD ROMANCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1938, Page 4
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