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Alice and Claude Askew
Alice Askew (18 June 18746 October 1917)〔Death notice in ''The Times'', 15 October 1917, p. 11〕〔Two news clippings from the ''Daily Express'', Tuesday, 16 October 1917, and Thursday, 18 October 1917 (page numbers unknown) – the first reporting Alice Askew and her husband Claude "drowned in a torpedoed vessel in the Mediterranean on October 5"; while the second that "the Italian steamer Bari, (...) was torpedoed by a German submarine off the Ionian Islands at 4 a.m. on October 6". "These clippings are among the family artifacts now in my possession – previously in that of my aunt, Alice Askew's youngest child, G.M.A." —R.C.A.〕〔Probate notice in ''The Times'', 19 October 1917, p. 4〕 along with her husband, Claude Askew (27 November 18656 October 1917)〔〔〔〔GRO Birth certificate – registered 1 January 1866〕 were British authors, who together wrote "over ninety novels, many published in sixpenny and sevenpenny series, between 1904 and 1918".〔''Edwardian Fiction – an Oxford Companion'', Oxford University Press, 1997 by Sandra Kemp, Charlotte Mitchell and David Trotter, p.10〕〔Jack Adrian's 'Introduction' to: Alice and Claude Askew’s ''Aylmer Vance: Ghost-Seer'', edited by Jack Adrian, Ash-Tree Press, Ashcroft, British Columbia, 1998, pp. ix–xv〕
==Claude==
Claude was born on 27 November 1865 at No. 4 Holland Park, Kensington in London and christened Claude Arthur Cary. He was the second son and youngest of five children of Fanny Georgiana Charlotte Askew (née Browne 1830–1900) and Rev. John Askew, M.A. (1804–1881).〔〔''The Times'', 2 December 1865, p. 1〕 Claude's older sisters and brother were: Amy Ellen Cary Askew (10 June 1857 – 29 April 1945), Isabel Emily Florence Askew (16 November 1858 – 30 October 1928), Mabel Fanny Mary Askew (23 February 1861 – 21 August 1941), and Hugh Henry John Percy Cary Askew (18 September 1862 – 14 April 1949).
Claude was educated at Eton College (1879–1883), "... and there wrote a play in blank verse...." 〔 It was probably during this period — certainly after 1877 and before 1883 — when Claude was taken on a holiday to Vevey (between Montreux and Lausanne) on Lake Geneva, where he met the future King Peter I of Serbia – then in exile in Geneva. "I was a small boy, spending my holidays with my people at Vevy on the Lake of Geneva, and at the hotel we struck up an acquaintance with Prince Peter Kara-Georgevitch. He was then in the prime of life, tall, dark, handsome—not yet married." He wrote this many years later recalling this childhood encounter when he met up with him once more – this time with his wife Alice and during the much darker circumstances of the 'Great Serbian Retreat' during World War I (see below). "At Koshumlja to-day we saw the King. Curiously enough, this was the first time that I have come across him since I have been in Serbia, though Alice has seen him at Topola. He is a fine old man, and neither trouble, sickness, nor age has bowed him."
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