Louisiana capitolian., 1880-05-15
SOME CURIOUS STORIES OF TEE
NOBILITY.


from Lord Mayor Osborne +; the Earrings
hold two peerages, Ashburtl . and
No7thb-ook, and several peers are. or
have been, bankers. The earl osJersey
i, a partner in Chld's bank, a}d th's
connection of Villiers with ln2Tat!ve
business has come about by rgmantlc
incident which occurred at the. end OF
the last century. The tenth ,eaEi OF
Westmoreland ran away with she only
daughter Of Robert Child, the head OF
tho bank. on the 22d of May, l7o2.
Although the runaways had a good
star. in their jour ney to Gretna Green,
tbe father oanght them up in Cumberl'
and, Lord Westmoreland was equal
to the occasion, for he stood up in his
carriage apd shot the leading horse in
Mr.. Childs chaise, by which bold proceed
ing he was able to get over the border
and be married before Child interfere
It is said that the nobleman had,
previous to the elopement, put the
following question to the banker
"Suppose you were in love With girl
and her father refused his consent to the
union, what should you do y to which
he received the prompt reply, "why,
run away with her, to be sure Child
did not forgive his daughter and her
husband, but nevertheless be willed
the whole of his fortune to their
first daughter-this was Lady Sarah
Sophia Jane, who married the fifth earl
of Jersey, and was grandmother Of the
present earl.
There are certain unwritten rules as
to entry into the house of lords. Thus
IN ordinary mortal is made baron. an
OK speaker or cabinet minister becomes
aviscount, and prime minister or
statesman of the first rank springs into
an earldom at one boand. Walpole was
created earl of Oxford, and his rival,
Pulteney, was cajoled into accepting
the earldom of Bath. The latter, when
he found he had stultifed himself by
his rise in rank, flung down his patent
on the floor, and was with difficulty
persuaded to have it passed. A some.
what similar scene occurred when
another hOth eaded man was raised to
Lonsdale. Sir James Lowther refused
any lower RANK than al earldom. He
even took offence on being made an earl
in l7s4, when he found that he was
junior to two or three other new earls
who had been advanced not, like him,
from among the commoners, but from
among the barons. At first be refused
to take bis seat among the lords, and
marched back to the commons.
Lord Clarendon tells an amusing
story in his life respecting the
Difficult ties encountered by Lord
Arlington, the we'll known member OF
the Cobal ministry, in the search for a
title. Sir Henry Bennett had no estate
from which he could take bis name, SC
he fixed upon the ancient barony Of
Cheney, which had expired in 1857
although he was in no way connected
with the family who had formerly held
it. The warrant was drawn out, and
forsome days he was called Lord Cheney
But this was not to last, for gentle
man of Buckinghamshire, who, although
he had no title to the barony, was ofthe
same family, and had inherited most o,
the property, went to Bennett and desired
him mot to affect title to which ht
had no relation and to which, thougl
he (the gentleman) could not pre-
tend of direct right, yet he wa'
not so obcure but that himself or so!
Of bis, might hereafter be though
worthy gift by the crown, and in tha
respect it would he some trouble to hin
/, to see it visited in the family of I
stranger" As the patent had not beel
prepared, Bennett contented himself wit
Z tho name of the little farm of HerlinptO]
between London and Uxbridge, whicl
had once belonged 10 his father, but ha'
I since been sold. In assuming the name
l however, he blundered in cockne
/, fashion, and left out them, so that th
: title was given as Arlington.
Lawyers have sometimes chosen thei
titles from the towns from where the
first obtained brief, but Sir Charlie
Pratt's choice was q different one, an
! it has kept alive very noble name in
rather remarkable manner. The creates
English antiquary, William Camdel
lived and died at Chiselhurst in tt
house called after him Camden plac
and when Lord Chief justice Partt ";
raised to the peerage he took his tit
from this house which has since bee