Generous gifts to his native town

Bideford Manor Court was further enriched on Saturday when members of the Borough Council sitting as Lords of the Manor made their first public appearance in their new robes of claret edged with black velvet for the aldermen and blue edged with claret for the councillors.

The robes formed part of a gift to the town by Mr Arthur McTaggart Short, a Bideford-born Cardiff business man. The gifts commemorate the mayoralty of his brother, Collr., W.H. Short.

Gazette article 6 April 1951