Children of Joseph Shewell and Alice Mary Spence

The Baron Fejervary, constructed by Wigham-Richardson & Co., to the order of the Royal Hungarian Sea Navigation Company Adria, of Fiume was launched on Friday, the christening ceremony being gracefully performed by Miss Mary Spence, of North Shields.

Miss Mary Spence, who, along with Mrs Hacrow, attended on behalf of the Association the annual meetings in London of the Women's Liberal Federation, gave an interesting resume of the doings of that conference.

An interesting report on the National Council, held in London in May, was given by Miss Mary Spence, who attended on behalf of the Tynemouth Association.

INTERESTING WEDDING AT NORTH SHIELDS

MR P. SPENCE—MISS A.E. SPENCE

This afternoon, the wedding was solemnized in the Stephenson Street Congregational Church, North Shields, of Mr Philip Spence, second son of the late Mr Charles James Spence, South Preston, and Miss Alice Edith Spence second daughter of Mr Joseph Shewell Spence, banker, Howard Street, North Shields, the proceedings being of a semi-private character. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Lewis A. Johnson, minister of the church. Miss Mary Spence was the bridesmaid, and the duties of groomsman were carried out by Mr Frank Spence, the bride's brother.

The bride, who was given away by her father looked charming in a dress of ivory Oriental satin, made with a long train. The bodice was trimmed with handsome pearl passementerie, and a deep yoke of ruched chiffon and Honiton lace. She wore a wreath and spray of orange blossom, and carried a beautiful shower bouquet, the gift of the bridegroom. The veil of fine Brussels net was the same as worn by her mother at her marriage. She also wore a necklet and bracelet of blister pearls, the gift of her grandmother, Mrs. F.C. Marshall.

The bridesmaid's dress was of Louisine silk, in a delicate shade of heliotrope. The transparent yoke was of cream lace, and the crossover bodice was trimmed with pearl and silver passementerie, with revers of ruched chiffon. The belt was of velvet, in a dark shade of violet. The full skirt was trimmed with kiltings of the silk, and finished with chiffon rosettes with centres of the velvet. She wore a white felt hat trimmed with heliotrope velvet and violets, and carried a shower bouquet of violets and white flowers, which, together with a gold safety pin watch, was the gift of the bridegroom.

The mother of the bride wore a gown of grey chiffon velvet, handsomely trimmed with Honiton lace, and a toque of black crepe-de-chine with white ospreys.

The bride and bridegroom received numerous presents. Amongst those to the former were a handsome silver entre dish and breakfast cruet from the Stephenson Street Congregational Church Sunday School teachers and choir. The maids at Preston and Bank House also gave appropriate presents.

Later in the afternoon the newly wedded couple left for the Lake district, where the honeymoon will be spent.

HERBERT M. SPENCE (1899–1900) writes from Shanghai "I have to thank you for a copy of the very interesting list of Friends' Schools Old Scholars resident abroad, and for all the trouble you have taken in compiling it. I see the names of several York or Ackworth Old Scholars in this region, who were unknown to me before. I constantly see Marshall Bolton here, who was at Ackworth, and he has recently brought out a wife, also an old Ackworth scholar. I also see Paton, who was at Bootham. These two are of the riding fraternity, and we frequently foregather on the same riding party on Sundays, and also ride regularly on our hunts. . . . I was in England in 1931, and during a visit to my brother Frank, made an ascent of Helvellyn with him and his boy, who is 18 and has just left Ackworth. A motor-car to the foot of the Striding Edge path in Grisedale simplifies this ascent very much, and the pace seemed to me terrific, about 1½ hours up and ¾ hour down by Swirrel Edge. I found I was still able to keep pace with youth, in spite of my approaching 50 years. Mountaineering has always been rather a forte in our family, and I keep it up in summer visits to the mountains in Japan."

SPENCE, Herbert Marshall F.R.I.B.A., (Scholar 1895–1898), was born September 26, 1883, the son of Joseph S. and Alice M. Spence, of North Shields. After Ackworth he continued his education at Bootham School, York, and then trained as an architect.

In 1911 he went out to Shanghai to take up an appointment there in H.M. Office of Works and lived and practised his profession in the Far East for the rest of his life.

After some years in Government service he went into partnership in a private firm and during the war was imprisoned by the Japanese. When the Communist regime was established in Shanghai his business was transferred to Hong Kong, where it still remains.

Herbert Spence was a notable horseman and served as an officer in the Light Horse Squadron of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps and for many years was Steward of the Shanghai Paper Hunt Club.

He married in 1921 and his wife Ethelwynne survives him. In his later years his health broke down and he spent some months in hospital at Hong Kong, where he died on May 20, 1958, in his seventy-fifth year.

INTERESTING SHIELDS WEDDING.

MR FRANK SPENCE AND MISS KEMP.

The marriage took place this afternoon, in the Stephenson Street Congregational Church, North Shields, of Mr Francis Spence, second son of Mr J.S. Spence, banker, and Mrs Spence, of North Shields, and Miss May Kemp, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Kemp, of Preston Avenue, North Shields. The church was beautifully decorated with flowers, and there was a large congregation present to witness the ceremony, which was performed by the minister of the church, the Rev Lewis A. Johnson, Mr M. Fairs, of South Shields, presided at the organ, and played Wagner's "Bridal March" as the party entered the church and Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" at the conclusion of the service.

The bride, who was given away by her mother (Mr Kemp being unavoidably absent), looked charming in her wedding gown of white meteor satin, veiled with fine old Venetian lace; a wreath of orange blossom was worn with a tulle veil. She carried a bouquet of Madonna lillies and lillies of the valley. Her ornaments included a diamond and sapphire ring, the gift of the bridegroom, and an amethyst pendant from the bridegroom's grandmother (Mrs Marshall).

The bridesmaids, Miss Nellie Kemp (sister of the bride) and Miss Mea [sic] Spence (sister of the bridegroom) were daintily attired in French robes of broderie-anglaise, shadowed with ivory ninon-de-soie, with waist belt and puritan bow of maize charmeuse. They wore picturesque hats with satin straw crows and maize coloured satin. The bridegroom's presents to them were gold hat-pins, and their bouquets of Hillingdon roses.

The bride was also attended by Charles and Rachel Spence (the twin children of Mr and Mrs Philip Spence, of Gosforth), the little girl wearing an ivory satin charmeuse long waisted dress, and the boy a tunic suit of the same fabric embroidered with daisies.

Mrs Kemp (mother of the bride) wore a handsome gown of ombrei silk taffetas, veiled with mallard blue ninon, and her toque was of tagal, trimmed with pink roses and lancer plume. She carried a bouquet of pin roses en suite.

Mrs Spence (mother of the bridegroom) was gowned in black charmeuse-de-liberte trimmed with Eastern embroidery. She wore a Tuscan toque with lancer feathers, and forget-me-nots, and carried a large bouquet of pink carnations.

Mrs Kemp afterwards held a reception at the Church Hall, and later in the afternoon Mr and Mrs F. Spence left for the English Lakes on their honeymoon tour, the bride travelling in a meteor blue French serge costume, and a hat of burnt straw with large satin bow.

The gowns were made by Messrs D. Hill, Carter, and Co., Ltd.

Mr. F.J. Spence, manager of Lloyds Bank, Bishop Auckland, has been appointed manager of the Stockton branch. He will be succeeded at Bishop Auckland by Mr. J.R. Snaith, of Barnard Castle.