Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-09-15
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The late Lord Lyndhurst lived till
1868; yet he had seen the birth, growth
and maturity of the Republic of the
United States of America, for he was
born in Massachusetts,, at a time when
that and the other Eastern States were
British plantations or colonies. In his
ninety-two years of life, he had seen
the whole history of the great Republic.
In 1874 died Paymaster Thorne, the
oldest naval officer in the Queens ser
vice; for he received his first commits
sion in the days when Lord Nelson was
still living, fighting, and eonquering.
Still more remarkable was the case of
the late Field Marshal Viscount Com
bermere; he was commissioned officer
in the British Army in 1871, and COM
missioned officer he was in 1865, when
death carried him off at the age of
ninety-two. During his passage through
all the military grades from Ensign to
Field Marshal he had been conversant
with the wars relating to two Repub-
lies, two Empires, and several Nor
arches in France. Most noteworthy
fact of all, Combermere and the great
Napoleon had been subaltern officers in
the self-same year, the one English as
Ensign Cotton, the other, (Freneh) as
Lieut.. Bonaparte; and yet Napoleon
has been dead more than halfa century,
When George ". visited Edinburgh in
1922, he had an interview with one of
the men who had fought for Prince
Charlie in 1745; the King pleasantly
welcomed him as ''the last of his ene-
mics" One Mr.. Evans who died in
1850, was wont to speak of having wit
messed the execution of Charles /. in
1919; but this assertion is sadly in need
of corroboration. The Scottish news
papers IN 1866 recorded the birth of a
child to Lady Nicolson, of Glenbervie;
her husband, Sir William, was ninety
two years old at the time, having mar
ried his second wife when he was
eighty-two; there was an interval of
sixty-six years between the birth of his
first daughter by his first wife and his
youngest daughter by his second WIFE
We have no record of the death of this
youngest daughter, but suppOsing her
to have lived beyond her eightieth year,
she might have said in 1876: "My
father was born 172 years ago, i'm the
time of Charles H.; and my eldest sister
was born 116 years ago" This case
was a specially remarkable one in one
at least of its features. More within the
ordinary run, but still noteworthy, was
the instance of DIR. Franklin, who was
the grandson of a man born in the time
of Queen Elizabeth; Benjamin Franklin
himself died in 1870, and thus he, his
father, and grandfather covered two
centuries. About the year 1888 was
born Miss Lettice Knollys, who eventu-
ally became by marriage Countess of
Essex in 1856, Countess of Leicester in
15S6, and Lady Blount in 1883. This
courtly lady, who did not quit the scene
of life till 1854, was great niece of
Anne Boleyn, and might, very probably
as little girl, have seen Henry VIII.
she certainly saw Edward VI, Queen
Mary, Queen Elizabeth, James l., and
Charles /. Lettice belonged to family
reached the age of eighty-five, one
brother eighty-six, another brother
and herself ninety-five.
Another courtly lady was in position
to say, shortly before her death in 1858,
"king Charles III. was present at the
marriage of my grandfather, and gave
away the bride nearly hundred and
ninety years ago." This leaping over
a wide gap of time seems rather start
ling; but the facts and dates arrange
i'm the following way
James, the fifth Earl of Balcarras, was
a naval officer in the service of Queen
Anne; he had come to the earldom as
successor to his father, the fourth Earl;
Charles H., near the close of his reign,
had given away the bride at the first
of this fourth Earl; of the
years of birth and death of the two
we need not take account; but
Earl James daughter Elizabeth became |
Countess of Hardwicke, and survived to !
a very advanced age in ls5S.-Chdm-
ters's Journal.