HEIR TO TEN MILLIONS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2501, 14 May 1909, Page 2

HEIR TO TEN MILLIONS.

WEDS SQUIRE’S DAUGHTER

With an litter absence o£ ostentation Mr. G gorge Westingli'oiise- ivas married to Miss Evelyn Brdeldebank. The bridegroom is ; a son of. Mr; George Westinglliouse, of Pittsburgh and f Manchester. inventor of .the vacuum; brake, is- the lieif to £10,000,000, . and will some day be the head of an industrial organisation owning more than 350 ■enormously valuable .patents and employing .nearly 20,000 men. Though ho will inherit such vast wealth Ke is no idler. He is 28 years old, and has .just finished a thorough apprenticeship to the engineering industry working the regulation ten hours a day for 9d an hour. His bride is the daughter of Sir Tliomas lhocldehank. Bart.. 61 Irtoii flail, Cumberland, and it wj\r, in the liftle church of the village of Irton that the ■ -weddings took' •• place.■ .Naturally tin.' folk of the countryside took the kccne-t interest in the’wedding of the squire's daughter,' and -the church Jvas 'taxed to its utmost ter accommodate tin-iii all. '| !, r Yailwat station i< six miles lrom Irton Hall, and the newly married pair; .were driven there in a t web. the reins In-, inu held I)v ‘ the bride's sister, M usS Violet, Brncklelrank. who is a noted whip. Th'- eohcli -was the one With which she a on tlu- quick-elm nge c-ompe-t.rioii ,p. ast s Luirm-' s lies,* rjhow. at ()1\ in pi a. .M v. V <‘.sl i ugboii't* aud his bride Will make their home in America, hut part of their"honeymoon; wilj he ,spent in England—and. appropnat ely < nough, ■’on a coaching .tour. ', ,V '. The British eteamar: (.rangcworMf v: 11 , - • ml w lion ,'V!) o-i''- nn FT. 'lnn*:. " ' •