D'Auvergne Robert Edward Bane
(1885-1951)
D'Auvergne was from a London middle class ex colonial military family and we well know him in our family for the romantic tale of his 'eloping with a maid'. The 'maid' Mary Ann Seagrove, had indeed been a maid before they met, and at the time of their blossoming love was a cook in a hotel where he was doing a stint as a barman. Though great things had been hoped of D'Auvergne, from studying at Cambridge University, which he had been accepted for, to becoming a lawyer, which he had begun training for, he threw up everything and settled down in a humble life at the seaside raising a family with his beloved.