SOCIETY BEAUTY’S END.

Waipukurau Press, 2 July 1908, Page 6

SOCIETY BEAUTY’S END.

'An interesting figure was laid to rest at Woodchester Church, Stroud, in the person of Mrs Lady Bagat Stroud Union ' '/./W’-BMay 2nd, at the A girl of ex-

treme lovleiness, 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 Baghott’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 sixty-six years, and was buried at King Stanley, near Stroud. Sir Paul owned several large estates in the county of Gloucester, notably, at one time, the beautiful Lypiatt Park, Stroud, now the seat of the Right Hon. Sir John E. Dorington, Bart., exConservative M.P. for Tewkesbury Division. A room in the Mansion House at Lypiatt has always been pointed out as the definite place where the Gunpowder Plot conspirators met to promote their scheme. The son of Sir Paul and Lady Baghott died at the early age of twenty-eight. Following great monetary losses, Lady Baghott and her son lived in straitened circumstances, and through the friendly interest of the late 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 predeceased her some years ago. Prior to his death, Dr. Williams secured to her for life the cottage in which she was born and lived to within a short time of her death, her removal to the workhouse being neccessitated by increasing feebleness and the inability of her daughter, Catherine White, to properly attend to her.