Record

Document Reference	Ga 2 E 1377
Title	Letter from Violet Skeffington-Smyth, Hotel Eden au Lac, Zurich [Switzerland] to her father George E.M. Monckton-Arundell, 7th Viscount Galway; 27 Aug. 1930
Date	27 August 1930
Extent	2 ff (plus envelope)
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Complains about it being so hot in Switzerland that it reminds her of Durban. The doctor has suggested they go to Rigi next week for some air. Is sorry to hear about the [death of the 8th] Duke of Northumberland [who died 23 Aug. 1930], who leaves a wife and 6 children. Ga 2 E 1377/2: Envelope addressed to Viscount Galway, The Mantles, Bawtry, Doncaster. Postmarked Zurich 28 Aug. 1930.
Term	travel, Switzerland
Term	death, 8th Duke of Northumberland

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
DS/UK/81768	Percy; Helen Magdalan (1886-1965); Duchess of Northumberland; née Gordon-Lennox; daughter of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond; married 8th Duke of Northumberland in 1911	1886-1965
DS/UK/81767	Percy; Alan Ian (1880-1930); 8th Duke of Northumberland; succeeded 1918	1880-1930
NA79898	Smyth; Violet Frances Skeffington- (1880-1930); Hon.; née Monckton	1880-1930