Ursula Vaughan Williams
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Joan Ursula Penton Vaughan Williams was an English poet and author, and biographer of her second husband, the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Ursula and Ralph Vaughan Williams on their wedding day in 1953
Arthur Pole Penton
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Major-General Arthur Pole Penton was a British officer in the Royal Artillery, and Commandant of the New Zealand Defence Forces from 1897 to 1901.
Ursula Vaughan Williams
…Williams. Ursula Vaughan Williams was born in Valletta, Malta, where her father, Major Robert Lock, was aide de camp to the General officer commanding, Arthur Pole Penton. Lock, later a knighted major-general, was married to Penton’s daughter Kathleen. Ursula was the eldest of their three children, having a younger sister…
Pole Penton aloft a horse (left) delivering an address to personnel of the Second New Zealand Contingent that was about to depart for the Second Boer War in 1900