The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-26
pRlos OF THE PEERAoe

Curious People Arc to DC Found Among
tho Nobility OF Great Britain.
The eccentric pobleman is well to the
fore just ut present in England. He has
taken to amusing the mob. Last week,
says London letter to the Chicago
Herald, we had the Earl of Lonsdale
racing against time on the public high
way, and to-day ut Tattersall's 1 heard
that young Lord Roslyn has made n bet
with Lord IIeadlcy that he will eat two
pounds of steak and drink gallon of
ale in less time than Lord Hc;,dlcy
takes to kill and skin Il bullock. Rather
promising exhibition this.
A day or two ago met coming out of
his club the gentleman who rcjoices in
the title of Baron Brayc. lie had n tall
hat on his head and soft hat in his
hand. He walked with thick Malacca
cane and he carried an umbrella under
his arm. He usually appears in that
way on the streets. He says: Its so
deucedly convenient, you know" If it
rains he can put on his low-crowned
hat and stick up his umbrella, and then
it gives him headache Ito wear tho
same hat for more than half an hour"
The duke of Hamilton can be rccop-
nized Il mile off by his clothes. They
are always of the same pattcrn-very
loud check, very baggy trousers, very
short coat and pot hat. lie usually
has dozen suits made on the same
lines, color and pattern at the same
time, and he regularly, whenever it is
possible, changes his garments III the
middle of the day. When driving Il
four-in-hand he is in the habit of step
ping into the inside of the coach for
few minutes and changing his clothes
before resuming the rcins. Of course
he wears black things at night, but
otherwise his wardrobe may be re-
gardcd as one of the most peculiar in
civilization.
Lord L;slc insists upon smoking Il
short clay pipe in the streets. He is an
Irish peer and not very well Off His
dining-rooin walls are adorned with
colored clay pipes, arranged in stars
and crosses, all of whichever five
hundred-havc been smoked bv his
lordship. 1t is said that he would have
been elected a representative peer of
Ireland but for the fact that his brother
mobiles were afraid that he would dis
grace the sacred body of coronets by
smoking his short clay pipe on the ter
race of the house of lords.
Lord Gardner, fourth baron of his til
tie, is one of the few English peers
who not only decline to live in their
own country, but go out of their way
to un-Anglicizc themselves by eccentric
foreign marriages. This nobleman
lives all the year round in India, and
his baroness is n daughter of Prince
Mira Shilloc, n grandson Of the late
king of Delhi. She is n coffec-colorcd
lady and enjoys her bctel nut as thor
oughly as Nautch girl. Her lords
household is similar to that of an Indian
rajah.
Lord Newburgh point-blanlz declines
to be either an Englishman or Scotch
man, although he is the tenth peer of
his title. He is an Italian citizen and
calls himself Count neutrality-suspicious.
one of the only instances on record
where man prefers being an Italian
count to an English carl. Viscount
Taaffc, an Irish peer, positively declines
to be IN Irishman OF any description.
He and his father before him were nat
uralized Austrians, and the country has
agreed so well with him that he has
risen to the rank of prime minister to
the Emperor Franz Josef He also calls
himself count-Count Taaifcc.
But you have an instance of rcnunci-
alton of peership, as we'll as citizen
ship, in Dr. Contce Fairfax, OF Virginia,
who. as is we'll known, is eleventh
Baron Fairfax in the pecrage of Scot
land; but he finds it, however, Il greater
honor to be citizen of the United
States.