Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-24
PREMIER COUNTESS
Of Epgland-A Page From the Social
history of England which Fur
nIshes an illustration OF
How the Aristocracy Pass Their Inno-
ceat Lfves-shrewsbury's Mistress
Becomes His Wife.

NEW YORK, June 21.-The World, anent
the MARI ge of the Earl Of Shrewsbury to
bis mistress, Mrs. Mundy, says: England
has a new premier countess who is not likely
to be received at court by the queen with
open arms. Charles Henry John Chetwynd-
Talbot twentieth Earl of Shrewsbury in the
peerage of England, Earl Talbot, Viscount
IDgestre and Baron Talbot of Hensol in the
peerage of Great Britain, premier earl of
| England and hereditary great seneschal OF
| Ireland, youth Just turned of twepty-one,
was yesterday married to the divorced wife
of Mr.. Miller-Mundy, of Derbyshire. Lord
| Shrewsbury, who was born November Is,
| 1860, is the son of the nineteenth earl, man
of ability, conspicuous in his youth, as Lord
Ipgestre, for his sympathy with all reform
| atofy and humanitarian movements. His
| mother was the daughter of naval officer
whose widow afterward married the late Earl
of Eglinton. He succeeded his father
twentieth Esrl of Shrewsbury and fifth Earl
| Talbot on the l1th of May, 1877. The lady
| whom he has now married Is four years his
senior, having been born in 1856. She was
| by birth a Miss Norwood, the daughter of
| Charles Rowland Palmer Morewood, of Al
| freton Hall, Derbyshire, a country gentleman
of old family and good fortune, by his mar
riage with Georgians, daughter of the sew
enth Lord Byron, the poets nephew and
successor. Her brother is the head of the
family of Palmer to which Lord Selborne
belongs, the name of Norwood having been
| assumed with the Morewood estates.
| MISS MooREwooD
was married September %, 1878 to a country
gentleman of fortune and of family equal TO
her own, Mr.. fired Edwari Miller-Mundy,
| OF Shipley Hal, in Devonshire, by whom
she had one child, born in August, 1874
Some time in the spring of 1880 Mrs. Miller
Mundy made the acquaintance of the Earl
of Shrewsbury, then a lad of twenty, and
their intimacy soon became 80 marked as TO
lead to chickering's between her husband and
herself In April, 1881, she went to visit
her sister at Torquay, from which charming
seaside resort she suddenly eloped with the
earl. Her husband and her brother followed
them to Strasburg, where the fugitives had
registered themselves at the Hotel de la
Vile de Paris as "Mr. and Mrs. Grafton"
and finally overlook them by a mere chance
on railway train just as it was moving out
of the station. Mr.. Palmer Norwood clam
bered upon the platform rail of the railway
carriage and through the window, and when
the condueteur opened the carriage at the next
station it presented all the evidences of a
coufict as hot as any ever waged by the esri's
great ancestor, the historic Talbot of Shakes |
peare, on the soil OF France. Mrs. Miller
Mundy went back TO England, and the scan
DIAL flied the clubs aud the "socety papers," |
Certain chronicers scrupled not to aver |
that
MRS. MILLER MUNDY
had "given the straight tip" to her relatives |
in order to bring about explosion which |
would result in divorce. On the 10th of
December last Mr. Miller Mundy obtained
divorce. In the interval sundry incidents |
kept the scandal alive. Mrs. Mundy's
mother meeting the earl at the railroad sta
ton at Wirksworth, fer example, savagely |
assaulted him with her umbrella like another
Mrs Camp. On another occasion the earl
srlfuily induced his brother-in-law (now de-
ceased), Lord Helmsley, who had been en-
joined to keep an eye on him to go and ar
range preliminaries for duel with Mr..
Palmer Moorewood, who was keeping watch
over Mrs. Miler-Mundy. While the two
watch-dogs we're thus occupied, the earl fitted
out of reach and met the lady. When, in
November Last, the Earl of Shrewsbury came
of age, he took Mrs. Miller-MuDdy down to
Alton Towers, his seat, introduced her as
SHE lady whom he intends hereafter to
make his wifi" to his tenants, and kindly
offered TO drive with her through the town of
Stafford to rally the party of Church and
State to the banners OF the Conservative
candidate in the then pending parliamentary
election, an offer which, strange to say, was
promptly declined by the local committee.
THE EARL
is a well-favored young man, and. one of /
his sisters, Lady Castlereagh, a reigning
cipally in Stafordshire and Cheshire, of
nearly 35, 900 acres, with a rent-roll of
s5S, 335, and two splendid seats, Ipgestre
Hall and Alton Towers. The latter resi-
dence is "a painters dream realized in au-
tique stone," built by the fifteenth earl,
whose cenotaph bears the fitting inscription,
HE made the desert smile" The first Earl
of Shrewsbury was the Talbot of Shakes
peare; the sixth was Queen Mary of Scot
lands taller as the fourth husband of the
famous "Bess of Hardwick." The eleventh
earl was killed in a memorable duel with
Charles IFS favorite, George Villiers, sec
ond Duke of Buckingham. The son of this
eleventh earl became Duke of Shrewsbury
and one of the foremost men of his time.
He took leading part in bringing over Will
liam of Orange and securing the succs ssion
to George l. The dukedom died with him,
but the earldom went to his cousin,
CATHOLIC PRIEST
from whom it passed to the latter's nephew.
This nephew, the fourteenth earl, died child
less. The title passed to his nephew, who
also died childless, leaving his great inheri-
lance in turn to his nephew. This sixteenth
earl left no son. A cousin who succeeded
him, Bertram, the seventeenth and the last
Catholic Earl of Shrewsbury, died unmsr-
ried in 1856. He was the brother of two
beautiful women, the Princess Borghese and
the Princess Doria of Rome. The present
line then came In In the person OF a leading |
Protestant nobleman, the third earl and fifth
Baron Talbot, grandfather of the present
peer The last Roman Catholic earl by will
left the estates to Lord Edmund Howard,
brother of the present Duke of Norfolk, in
defiance of the family act which the Duke of
Shrewsbury had obtained in the last century,
entalling the estates forever with the Shrews-
bury earldom, but Earl Talbot brought his
FAMOUS SUIT
in 1857 and finally obtained both title and
lands. On Christmas Day last winter four
of the now Countess of Shrewsbury's brothers
set upon their elder brother, Mr.. Palmer
Morewood, after dinner, when he refused to
sign a deed conveying certain property 10
them, and beat him frightfully, leaving him
for dead. They were held in 957, 600 bail
to answer, but dumped their bonds" to join
their amiable rIster, who was then yachting
with the earl in the Mediterranean. the
Palmer More wood estates were demanded by
a claimant" in 1871, and it is understood
that one of the results of the fracas in De-
cember may be the bringing up of another
"long lost heir" To complete this pleasing
family tale, sister of the now Countess of
late husband, Miss Miller
Mundy, now no longer living, married in
1868 The Earl of Shrewsbury's uncle, the
Hon. Walter Carpenter, who is now the
heir presumptive of the earldom of Sbrews-
buryl Such romances in real life beautifully