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At the marriage of Colonel Owen Williams, M.P. (recently of the Royal Horse Guards), and Miss Nina Mary Adelaide Sinclair, youngest daughter of Sir Tollemache Sinclair, Bart., M.P., of Thurso Castle, Caithness, which took place, by special license, at St. Peter's Church, Eaton-square, last Saturday afternoon, was a distinguished assemblage of the officers past and present of the Colonel's regiment, as well as of society, with the Prince of Wales—the bridesmaids being Lady Fanny Sinclair, the Hon. Eva Wellesley, Miss Rose Glyn, Miss Evy Graham Montgomery, and Miss Bulkeley. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a dress of cream white brocaded satin, trimmed with flounces of Brussels lace, and white ostrich feathers. Her head-dress was sprays of orange blossoms covered with a tulle veil fastened by diamond stars, and she wore a diamond riviére.

Mr. Walter J. Grove, eldest son of Sir Thomas Fraser Grove, Bart., of Ferne, Wilts, and Miss Agnes Fox-Pitt, youngest daughter of General and Hon. Mrs. Pitt-Rivers, were married on the 20th inst., at St. Peter's, Eaton-square.

The marriage of Lord Westbury with Lady Agatha Tollemache, youngest daughter of the late Lord Huntingtower and sister of the Earl of Dysart, took place at St. Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, on Monday. The bride wore a dress of ivory satin duchesse, trimmed with Brussels lace and pearls, and over a wreath of natural orange-blossoms a Brussels lace veil fastened to her hair by diamond stars.

The marriage between Captain Hadaway, Royal Artillery, and the Lady Anne Grenville, is to take place at Wotton, Buckinghamshire, on Aug. 3.

Source: The Illustrated London News, No.2256—Vol. LXXXI, Saturday, July 29, 1882, p.110