Lord and Lady Halifax are much engaged in family weddings Just now. Theis son's marriage to Miss Ruth Primrose is being: followed next month—on May 9 to be exact—by that of his sister, the Hon, Anne Wood, to the Earl of Feversham, a Lord-in-Walting to the King. Mr. Wood's bride is the daughter of that gallant younger son of the late Earl Rosebery, the Hon. Neil Primrose, Yor whom, had he not been killed in action in Palestine in 1917, a brilliant political career had Been foretold. He had entered parliament seven -years_ earlier Liberal Member for Wisbech. After being Under-Secretary of Siate for Foreign Affairs in Mr. Asquith's Ministry, he was appointed by Mr. Lloyd-George to be Parliamentary Military Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions in 1916. He threw up that post to go to the Front in the Buckighamshire Yeomanry and met his death in action within six months. The present Earl of Rosebery is his elder brother, Their mother was Hannah Meyer, the granddaughter of Nathan Mayer Rothschild, of Waterloo fame, and the cousin of the first Lord Rothschild. Miss Primrose's fortune to which the cables referred comes therefore from her maternal grandmother. Her mother died in 1827 ana was, the doughier of the present Earl of Derby, The Earl of Fever-[sham who is about tomary into Lord 'Halifax' family also lost his father jin the War for the late Earl—known to the House of Commons as Viscount Helmsley, Member for Thirsk from 1906 to 1915—was killed in action in September 1916 while commanding a battalion of the King's Royal Rifle Corps. on which tne wonger be reasonably expected. Now {tn be resoray epee Now Sahara desert, just it 1s easy to Swen at ie going: to tan Terug but Who shall sy aCe Bink ase. bien ts a thie ut pechape Mat wan Lord Supwders lite font Frotatt poten! aclelae whet Suntlles of detatoriel salon Sight be bie to trid due sen
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