Andrew Gault - Marriages

Marriages

In 1904, after a brief romance, he married one of the Golden Square Mile's heiresses, Marguerite Claire Stephens (d.1935), daughter of The Hon. George Washington Stephens and his second wife Elizabeth McIntosh.

In 1918, Gault divorced his first wife over what he suspected was an affair with a young officer from his regiment while recovering from his wounds. Marguerite always claimed it was nothing more than a harmless flirtation and many who new her well agreed. Gault was unsuccessful in his divorce proceedings before the Senate of Canada (the only recourse then open to Quebec residents). Their divorce was finally settled in the much more lenient French courts. Afterwards she was briefly married to Italian aviator Colonel Luigino Falchi.

In 1920 his new fiancée, Mrs Kathleen (Newberry) Blackader (widow of one of Gault's cousins and fellow officers in the Patricias, Captain Gordon Home Blackader, of Montreal) died when the car Gault was driving skidded and overturned. She was trapped underneath and he was unable to free her. Her daughter, Margaret Patricia Blackader (1913-2002), became his ward.

In 1922, he 'quietly' married Dorothy Blanche Shuckburgh, of Hatch Court, Somerset. She was the daughter of C. J. Shuckburgh, formerly of Hatch, and a grand-daughter of the late R. H. Shuckburgh J.P., who in his lifetime lived at Bourton Hall, Warwickshire. She died at Hatch Court in 1972.

Gault died at Mont Saint-Hilaire, November 28, 1958. Following a military funeral with full honours in Montreal, he was buried in England at his former home, Hatch Court. He died without issue by either wife.