Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-18
THE EARL or AYLEsroED.
Remarkable Career Of an English No
bleman Who Fled from Home.

hemArRaDle Ohreef OF an huaubn NO
bleman Who Fled from Home.
~. Louis Globe Democrat
The body Of the late Earl Of A les |
ford, ranch owner, and At one time n |
saloon. keeper vt Big Syringe, Tx , |
who dieN at the springs Tuesday
night, will arrive In s Louis to-muI-
row. IL will be received at the Union
depot by local undertaken, who will
embalm IL aud ship IL to New YOlk,
ffom which point IL Is to be forwarded
for inttrment In England. Tie de.
ceased earl has been con-
ne ted with the cattle iu-
dn-try for two or three years
past. He was well known all over the
section of country in which his ranch
is located, and, In fact, by his cowboy
like freaks had become notorious
throughout the state During thu
time he WAS located at Rig Springs he
made frequent visits TO 81. Louis and
became well known TO men around
town aud fr. quenters OF the southern
no oil roiunda He visited England IN
the spring ~ last year, and during his
stay in New York WA inteTvieA cd 10y
reporter, 10 whom he expressed him
self Ia favorable terms M 10 his life aud
! surround iDRA IN lne WtbN.
In England, aud in London society
particularly, the Earl Of Aylesford 3
death will recall the famous divorce
court pro 'eedings In which the earl
ard his countess aud the marquis ut
Blandtord, now the duke OF Mari
| borough, appeared In the most unens
viAble light. The tarl was the eighth
| OF his liue who had borue the title be-
| a Id a
lawyer, Heneage Finch, 10y George l
i'm ITl4 He wss born Ia February,
| lg49. and succeeded to his fsther's TILE
and to the eadly inoumbered family
esi ates in one OF the east rn COUNTIES
ui England In January 1871 Two
days befo his father's death he earl,
who WAS then Lprd Guernsey, mar
ried Edith Peer Williams, tue daugh-
ter Of Berkshire colonel aud u mem.
Der OF the house Of commons.
AT that time aud for some time a.
terward the carl was on intimate terms
with the prince OF Wales, as II shown
by the fact that the prince stood spOn-
aOr for bis Recond daughter, who W
born In 1876. il was soon after the
birth of this child that the prOcet dinPf
inSthe divorce court were commenced d.
IA waa then shown that Lady Ayles'
ford had conducted an intrigue Nth
the MARQUIS OF Blandford, Lord X
ChurehiIi's elder brother and heir Il
the Marlborough dukedOm. h re were
facts tufiicient 10 warrant The rAntlnt
of A decree nisi, but the Queen's ~ e
Tor interviewed II was shown that thu
earl had been seriously mls onductinl
himself with a lady Of high rank, and
, as the outcome Of the proctOr's inter
vention, and on the ground that Their
Z had been collision, the court refused
the order. The hearing of the case oc
cupied the court for number OF days
; and furnished the most sensations
, rrading matter for the daily journsif
/ II excited the most intense IN eres
, throughout England and on the cor
tinenf, owing ~ the standing Of IN
! two gre at aristocratlc families imuieni
ately concerned
!, Having failed to secure the deere
a Mai. which would have been welcOm
10 each party. Earl aud Lady Aylei
lord mutually agreed "a separate
. Guardians were appointed Tor tho wv
I daughters of the marriage, and ny q
. agreement made In May, 1911 Ia
n then notorious couple pTocfeued VI ~
= up TO the motto OF the AylesIoId =
h cutcheOn- iAperto Yivere VOC
~ live with will unf-ttered'" Under On
a agreement the earl WAS 10 allow -
y wife $500 a year on the one cpnoit'o
, that che was not 10 mOlehs nlll
l. For year or TWO the A{,'n',.tt
,e family matters ceased 70 irouoie ~
!. c,urts. There were, howe yer, fro
~ time 10 time, paragraphs Ia the soci
~ I" Journals giving the whereabou'
y and noinps ofth earl and dark an
- nglv rumors were ia circulation a. u
W.st END IA 20 the position OF Lad
Avi, sf1rd with regard TO the marqu
IN ot Bandford IL 1882 the earl OF AYE
"A ford secured an act OF parliament a
n thorizing him 10 raise about TWO ~
~ a half millions Of dollars on the isu
y. ly eatatea, In order 20 pay on ms y
NJ debtedness and invest la ranch
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