page_title: Ernest Belcher
section_title: Major Belcher's Marriage
hierarchical_section_title: Ernest Belcher / Major Belcher's Marriage
caption_attribution_description: English: Marriage notice of Gladys Greenwood and Major Ernest Albert Belcher, 1926
context_page_description: Major Ernest Albert Belcher CBE was the Assistant general manager of the British Empire Exhibition which was held at Wembley in 1924 and 1925. He was leader of the 1922 tour around the world to promote this event. Agatha Christie and her husband Archie were members of this group and Christie mentions him in her notes and biographies. A recent book The Grand Tour: Around the World with the Queen of Mystery gives an outline of this tour and describes Major Belcher in depth.
context_section_description: Belcher was 51 and unmarried when he led the British Empire Tour. During his visit to Australia he needed some work done. One of the officials Harold Greenwood suggested that his daughter Gladys Greenwood could act as Belcher's personal secretary while he was in Australia.
  After Belcher returned to England at the end of 1922, his engagement to Gladys was announced in The Times in January 1923. At this time he lived at The Mill House at Clewer near Dorney where the Christies visited him occasionally. Gladys still lived in Australia with her parents. In 1925 Belcher moved to Lake End House in Dorney, which was a large Queen Anne house surrounded by five acres.
  In 1926 Belcher went to Canada on business and while he was there Gladys travelled from Australia to Vancouver on the ship Aorangi to meet him. They were married in Montreal in September 1926. The Times marriage notice is shown. Shortly after they returned to England and lived for some time in Dorney. They then moved to an apartment in Clifton Court London in about 1930 and then to Rodney Court. In about 1935 the couple divorced. Two years later Gladys married Sydney Gould.
  After the divorce Belcher remained in Rodney Court London for several years. He then moved to an apartment in Clive Court. He was a member of the Oxford and Cambridge Club and spent a great deal of his time there. He died at Clive Court London in 1949 aged 78.
caption: Marriage Notice of Major Belcher and Gladys Greenwood in 1926.
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