From: manuel@cs.strath.ac.uk (Manuel A. Lopez)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Little Lord Moynihan
Date: 16 Apr 92 14:32:27 GMT
Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Strathclyde Univ., Glasgow, Scotland.


                    Filipino Kid a British Baron

A one-year old son of a Filipina is a British baron with a right to a seat
in the House of Lords.

The Filipino tot is Daniel, the last son of Lord Anthony Moyniahn of Leeds,
a colourful bon vivant described by the British press as a runaway
playboy.

Daniel's mother, Jinna, is a 26-year old Filipina and the last of 
Moynihan's five wives.  She used to work as a hotel receptionist in Manila.

Daniel inherited the title after his father's death.  Moynihan died last
November in Manila, where he ran a string of massage parlours and bars.  He
was 55.

A dispute over the succession arose when Moynihan's fourth wife, Editha,
also a Filipina, claimed her son Andrew was the true heir.

Charles Vance, trustee to Moynihan's estate, said the dispute was settled
after looking into Daniel's birth certificate and Jinna's marriage
certificate.  It was added that medical evidence showed that Moynihan had
not been Andrew's natural father.

`There was no doubt that Daniel was his true heir,' said Vance, who is
married to Moynihan's sister, Imogen.

Daniel and his mother would soon go to Britain, where Vance and his wife would
act as guardians and ensure an education fit for an English lord.

Vance said Daniel would go to a British prep school and boarding school.

Officials at the House of Lords said the new Lord Moynihan would not
be able to claim a seat in Britain's Upper House of Parliament until the
age of 21.  Until then he would be known as the Fourth Baron Moynihan.

The late aristocrat was implicated in a series of drugs and tax evasion
charges.  He fled Britain twice, in 1956 and 1969, to escape extradition.
Before his death, Moynihan was writing a weekly food column for a 
Philippine business daily under the pseudonym `Lucullus'.  His associates
in Manila remember him for bringing a tiger on a leash to his birthday.

Educated at Oxford, Moynihan's last three wives were all Filipinas.  His
first was an actress and part-time nude model, and the second, a belly
dancer.

Meanwhile, Jinna, the Filipino widow of Moynihan, said she is determined
to see her son to grow up to be a `proper Englishman' and speak in the
House of Lords.

Jinna told Reuters that she was willing to endure any snub she might
receive from British aristocrats to fulfil her ambition.

[insert here a caricature of a taray-looking Filipina captioned, (with
an irap only a Filipino/a can make): Tignan nila ... Tataasan ko ng
kilay at matunog na syet at gardemet ang aabutin nila mula kay Lady
Moynihan]

`The dream of his father and of myself, is to see our son speaking
in the House of Lords,' Jinna said.

She conceded the close knit world of British aristocrats may ignore her
as a provincial, unsophisticated Filipino who acquired her current
title by a fortuitous marriage.

`There are problems, but I have to be strong.  I have to be tough for
Daniel's sake,' Jinna said.

--- Lifted from The Filipino, Vol 4 (1), London (February/March 1992)

Wala na akong ma-say.

Sige at ingat ...

... Lito

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