Dundee Evening Telegraph – Wednesday 19 October 1932
A marriage has been arranged and will take place shortly between William Drake Seaburne May, eldest son of Major General Sir Reginald Seaburne May, K.B.E., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., and the late Lady Seaburne May, of Bughtrigg, Coldstream, Berwickshire, and Betty Livingston, only daughter of Sir Lynden and Lady Livingston Macassey, of 26 Ashburn Place, S.W.7.
Mr May is 24 years of age. His father, a distinguished Scottish soldier, recently married as his second wife, Mrs Jane Robertson Monteith, a half-sister of Sir James Wilson, Bart of Invertrossachs, Callander, Perthshire.
Sir Lynden Macassey was formerly Director of Shipyard Labour at the Admiralty, and was a member of the Home Office Departmental Committee on disinterested Management in 1926.
Northern Whig – Thursday 20 October 1932
Miss Betty Macassey to Wed.
Ulster people will be very interested to learn the Miss Betty Livingston Macassey, only daughter of Sir Lynden Macassey, the eminent Ulster lawyer, and Lady Macassey, has become engaged to Mr. William Drake Seaburne May, and that the wedding will take place shortly. Mr May is the eldest son of Major General Sir Reginald Seaburne May, K.B.E., of Bughtrigg, Coldstream, Berwickshire, and Commander of the Royal Military College Sandhurst, and the late Lady May. The wedding will be a very popular one and will be among the principal society marriages of the season.
Northern Whig – Thursday 20 October 1932
Sir Lynden Macassey’s Daughter engaged
Union With Prominent English Family
An engagement is announced between William Drake Seaburne May and Betty Livingston Macassey.
Mr May is the eldest son of Major General Sir Reginald Seaburne May, K.B.E., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., of Bughtrigg, Coldstream, Berwickshire, and Commander of the Royal Military College Sandhurst, and the late Lady Seaburne May, and is the grandson of the late Admiral of the Fleet, Sir William May G.C.B., G,C.V.O., of Bughtrigg Coldstream.
Miss Macassey is the only daughter of Sir Lynden Livingston Macassey.
The marriage will take place shortly.
Daily Mirror – Thursday- 20 October 1932
Belfast News-Letter – Thursday 20 October 1932
The marriage will take place shortly between Betty Livingston Macassey, only daughter of Sir Lynden Livingston Macassey, K.B.E., and Lady May, and William Drake Seaburne My, the eldest son of Major General Sir Reginald Seaburne My, K.B.E., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., the Commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst, and the late Lady Seaburne May, of Bughtrigg. Mr Drake is the grandson of the late Admiral of the Fleet, Sir William May G.C.B., G,C.V.O., of Bughtrigg Coldstream
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