The Arizona sentinel., 1885-08-29
AN ODD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN,
Lord Dudley's Habit of Thinking Out Loud
 ---Other Eccentrieities.

--Other Eccentricities.
 [An the Year Roundl
 "Lord Dudley" says Mir. Moore, "it
 is well known, has trick of rehearsing
 over to himself, in an undertone, the
 good things he is about to deliver
 to the company, so that the per
 son who sits nexS to him has generally
 the advantage of his wit before any of
 the rest of the party. A man not very
 remarkable for his agreeableness once proposed to walk from the House of
 Commons to the Travellers club with Lord Dudley, who, discussing the pro- posal mentally (as he thought) with himself, said audibly, I don't think 1t will bore me very much to let him walk with me that Gistance' On another oc- casion, when he gave somebody a seat 1n hls carriage from some country house, he was overheard by his com paaions, after it of thought and si- lence, saving to himself: Nov, shall l ask this man to dine with me when we arrive in town?' It is said that the eame sort of tone: 'Eow, if Lord Dud ley should ask me to dinner, shall l ac- cept h4s invltation?'
 4 happy specimen of his wit was this retort to German lady at Vienna who had somewhat rudely complained of ihe bad French spoken by lyon English" in London. True, madam" he said, i've have not enjoyed the advantage of having had the French twice in our capital"
 This recalls retort about as good made by an Englishman to the Due de Broglie when Ambassador in England, who said, with equally lax manners, that they were right in thinking the English 3 nation of shopkeepers. "Per haps SC" was his reply, "just as we al- ways thought you were nation of sol diers." -s-
 After his retirement his curious ma mia and various oddities increased to an extravagant degree, and were the talk Of the town, which, however, soon came to accept them as it does all kinds of oddity. He would go to dinner parties l and sit without uttering word except l irg to himself. During some brief flashes of silence" Mir. Raikes tells of a friend of his whom he describes as good-natured and very good-looking man, not overiowing with intellect. Tt | was at a time when poor Dudley's mind ] was on the wane, when his caustic hu- nor would still find vent through the cloud that was gradually overshadow- ing his masterly intellect; he was sit ting in his room, unheeding those around him, and soliloquizing aloud, as was so often his custom. His favorite New Foundlard dog was at his side, who seemed to engross his whole at tention. At length, batting his head. he exclaimed: 'Fido, mic, they say dogs have no souls. Humphl And still they say - has q soulP Upon one occasion he found MT. Allen at Whites. about o'clock, and asked him to din. Ter. Un his arrival at Park lane, he found 1t was Q tete-a-tete with the host, When in the evening, he was asked how the dinner went of, Allen said: Lord Dudley spoke little to his servant and B great deal to his dog, but said noth- ing"
 In this state, too, he would invite large up5uISS JO Q1uueT, WHO, stranger still, would accept his invita- tions, though, when they came he would not address them. Mr. Moore, who loved cheerfulness and grayety mournfully of these festivi. ties as damping and depressing. For the host would sit the whole time in a sort of stupor, or converse with him. self, or have volume of Hume open , before him, which he would read 2 2 throughout the dinner. This was the ,eginning of the end. 4 short time lfterward, in 1892, 1t was known that , .4e doctors had directed that he should { 5e put under restraint, and on the 9th of March, 1883, this brilliant, but ec- centric man expired. He was only B. ,, relation of his. the Rev. MT. Ward, 5 to the title with e4,000 Il z rear only, while 9SO,000 Q year passed E O this ciergy'man's son, the present f lolder of She title.