Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-02-08

The MtstOry o. Romantic Mar
rtaRe with n PlttsbuFg HeiFess-
Career of an Adventurous Eng.
Iishlnan AN ElOpement which
caused a Sensation.
The Pittsburg Telegraph of fSatur-
day evening, the I'd, says:
The news of the death Of Captain
Schenley, at London, which was
received here by cable yesterday,
has excited much interest and re-
yiyed many recollections OF the
famous runaway-match with Miss
Mary E. Croghan, heiress to one
third Of the vast O'Hara estate, and
niece of Mrs. Denny, whose demise
two weeks ago formed so much sub
iect of comment. 1t was somewhat
remarkable that two persons so in-
timately and so long associated in
the enormous landed estate which
descended from old General O'Hara
should have died within SO short a
time Of each other. Few persons
of our day have had a more inter-
esting and eyentlul career than
Captain Edward Schenley, the hero
of this runaway-match, and whose
death at London, on Thursday last,
is stated above. lie fought at Wa.
terloo under Wellington, and at
New Orleans under Packenham
against Old Hickory, before he had
passed his nineteenth year. He had
seen service in every quarter of the
globe; was the associate of George
", Beau Brummel, and that par
ticular set that gave the fashions in
neckties and dissipation; knew
Rogers and Tom Moore, and trav-
eled in Italy as the companion Of
Byron, Shelley and Leigh Hunt.
He was a thoroughly accomplished
man of the world, witty and COM
panionable, of fine presence and
elegance Of manner, and a favorite
with both sexes. 1t was his great
achievement as a gallant, in carry
ing off the wealthy Miss Croghan,
that connected Captain Schenley
with Pittsburg. 0fhis early career
few details are known. He was
born somewhere about 1895. His
father was an officer in the English
army, though a Belgian by birth.
His mother was an accomplished
Irish woman. He was sent to Har-
ward school, but ran away and OBJ
tanned place i'll the army.
lie served under Wellington in
the concluding part of the penin-
sular campaign; crossed the Allan
tic with his regiment and took part
in the battle of New Orleans on the
Sth of January, 1915; and after
that disastrous defeat, from which
Ensign Schenley escaped without
a scratch, he went back with his
regiment, the ROYAL Rifles, and
reached the continent in time to
win a captainoy at Waterloo, where
he was wounded in the hand by a
Polish lancer. AS Captain Schen-
ley told the story, his regiment was
lying down when the Poles charged
through it, and he got his wound
while lying flat on the ground. Just
how long he remained in the army
after the war, we are not informed.
He was always proud of his Water
loo medal. In 1922 he was in Italy
with Byron and Shelley, and when
Shelley was drowned in July, of
that year, in the Gulf of Spezzia,
and his body afterward washed
ashore, Schcnley participated with
Byron, Leigh Hunt and Treiawney
in its cremation. He is mentioned
in Leigh Hunts account of that
affair as being present. Captain
Schenley's own description Of it
differed from that generally received.
He presented it as degenerating
into something Of drunken orgie
after the fire under poor Sholley's
remains had been lighted. IL was
allowed to go out, then rekindled,
and on the whole was brutal and
disgusting,
His first marriage was with Miss
Iugalls, Scotch lady, 1t took
place in Italy in 1895. No children
survived. She was a relative of DR..
Addison, formerly Of this city.
Some years after the death of his