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Smoked Cigars,
Wore a Trilby,
Died, Aged 90
LONDON, December 21.
A woman who smoked cigars, wore a
trilby bat. and ran a flourishing spelter
business, died in Swansea this week, aged
ninety. Miss Amy Dillwyn was her name.
Everyone in Swansea knew her. As
chairman of the Dillwyn Spelter Com-
pany for- many years she built up a
great reputation as a keen business
woman. At public dinners, and she
attended many, she almost always
smoked cigars.
"Cigarette smoking," she said. once,
"is like drinking beer out of a thimble."
Her father was Mr. Lewis Llewellyn
Dillwyn. "Father" of the House of
Commons for many years. She was a
granddaughter of Sir Henry de la Beche,
the geologist.
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