Michael D.Heath-Caldwell M.Arch.

Dundee Evening Telegraph

Friday 10 June 1938

Society Romance.

The marriage has been arranged, and will shortly take place, between Major Richard Lodge Palmer D.S.O., M.C., late Royal Artillery, now at Coldham Hall, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, and Mrs Iris Mirrlees, eldest daughter of Sir George and the Hon. Lady Leveson-Gower, of 16 Thurlow Place, London S.W.7.

Mrs Mirrlees' first marriage, to Captain W.H. Buchanan Mirrlees, was dissolved in 1928.

Her father was private secretary to Mr Gladstone when Prime Minister, and has also held the posts of Junior Lord of the Treasury, Comptroller of the King's Household, and Commissioner of the Woods and Forests. he was M.P., for North West Staffordshire in 1885-86, and for Stoke-on-Trent from 1890 to 1895.Sir George, who celebrated his 80th birthday last month, is a cousin of Earl Granville.

Major Palmer is 54. He was awarded the D.S.O., while serving in France during the Great War.

Hull Daily Mail

Saturday 11 June 1938

To Wed

Best Man.Major Richard Lodge Palmer, Coldham Hall, Bury St.Edmunds, Suffolk, was best man at the wedding 16 years ago of Mrs Iris Irma Mirralees, eldest daughter of Sir George and the Hon. Lady Leveson-Gower, Thurloe Place, London, S.W.

Mrs Mirrlee's marriage was disolved in 1927. Yesterday her engagement to Major Palmer was announced..

Nottingham Journal

Thursday 30 June 1938

Major's Bride in Black - 'Grooms Battery Fired First Shot in Great War.

Major Richard Lodge Palmer was married yesterday in Kensington Register Office, London, to Mrs Iris Irma Mirrlees (38), daughter of Sir George and Lady Leveson-Gower.

The bridegroo, who is 54, was in charsge of the gun team of "L" Battery of the Royal Horse Artillery which fired the first British shot in the Great War.

For the past eight years he has been agent to Colonel H.E.Hambro M.F.H. at Coldham Hall, Bury St. Edmonds.

The bride was dressed in a black frock with a spray of pink flowers but she wore no hat, a black veil covering her hair. She was accompanied by her father, whom she helped out of the car.

There were no other guests, the ceremony being kept quiet because of the illness of the bride's mother.

Sir George Leveson-Gower, whowas a private secretary to Mr Gladstone and Comptroller of Queen Victoria's Household, is a former Liberal M.P., for the N.W. Division of Staffordshire and for Stoke-on-Trent.Lady Leveson-Gower is a sister of Lord Monson, of Burton Hall, Lincoln.

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