Unnamed First Husband of Joan Heppleton
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Unnamed First Husband of Joan Heppleton
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Unnamed First Husband of Joan Heppleton
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No
Biography:
Mentioned a couple times in Flags in the Dust, briefly, in the history of her "lovers" that Joan Heppleton provides for Horace Benbow, this man (probably not named "Heppleton," but not otherwise named) was in his fifties when she married him at eighteen. Together they went to Hawaii just before or during the First World I; after she left him for another man, they divorced and he "made a settlement on her" (322).