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The Marriage of Lord Alington

Source: The Illustrated London News, Feb. 20, 1892 p.227

An event of some interest to fashionable and aristocratic society was the wedding at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, on Wednesday, Feb. 10 , when Lord Alington married Miss Evelyn Henrietta Leigh, daughter of the late Mr. Blundell Leigh, and of Mrs. Blundell Leigh, of Pont Street. Belgravia. The bride was led to the chancel steps by her brother, Captain Gerard Leigh, 1st Life Guards, who gave her away. Her train was held by two pages, the Hon. Ralph Stonor, son of Lord and Lady Camoys, and Master Astley Corbett. The Rev. Canon Blundell, Rector of Halsall, Ormskirk, Hon. Chaplain to the Queen. cousin of the bride, officiated, assisted by the Rev. II. Montagu Villiers,