28 OCTOBER 1949, Page 5

The death of Mr. George Bcttany, Publishers' Advertisement. Manager of

the Spectator, will be regretted equally by his colleagues on the Spectator, the publishers with whom he came into intimate touch and the wide circles who enjoyed the many novels he had written in the last twenty years. Son of Dr. G. T. Bettany, Professor of Botany at Cambridge, and stepson of Mr. Coulson Kernahan, Mr. Bettany had a varied career, being trained for the Navy, then farming in Saskatchewan and gaining his commission in the 1914-18 war after serving in the Roughriders. He had been a member of the Spectator staff since 1935.

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