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Name:
Blanche Adela Espeut
 Relationship to Marguerite Victoria Clark
Birth:
5 JUN 1878 Jamaica
Father:
William Bancroft Espeut
Mother:
Bessie Adela Jeannette Armit
Married:
Thomas Cameron Coote 14 FEB 1906 St. Mary Abbots, Kensington, London
Children:
V Coote
Born:
Noƫmi Coote
Born: 1906
Died: 1922
Eileen Blanche Coote
Born: 18 JUL 1909 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Died: 30 JAN 2001 Uckfield, Sussex, England
Death:
30 MAR 1934 London, England aged 55
Remarks:


Wedding:
The bride was given away by her brother, Mr. R. Espeut, of Sierra Leone, West Africa, and Mr. Arthur Coote, brother of the bridegroom, was best man. The bride wore a wedding-dress of "cascade de soie" with narrow pleated frills at foot, the bodice being arranged with old Brussels lace, and Court train of old Brussels lace. Her ornaments were a diamond and sapphire pendant, the gift of the bridegroom.

The reception held by Mrs. Espeut at Kensington Town Hall was largely attended, among those invited being Sir Kenneth and Lady Mackenzie, of Tarbat, Sir William and Lady White, and, Sir Henry and Lady Hocking and, the Baron and Baroness Rosen Krantz, Lady Longden, Miss Longden, Sir Richard and Lady Cayley, and Lady Lees.

She is a member of a family which had made its mark in Hertfordshire more than a century ago but which for over a century has been foremost in the government and development of Jamaica. Her father the late Hon. William Bancroft Espeut, a notable naturalist and geologist, was for long a member of the Legislative Council of Jamaica, but managed to get across to the Old Country with sufficient frequency to make himself known and liked at the St. Stephen's and Savage clubs.

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