The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-03-31
A NOBLE TROOPER.
The Son Of an Earl Becomes .
Private Soldier.
He Horrifles His Aristocratic Relatives
by Enlisting as q Cavalryman
"A Dramatic Incident
In His Career.

1OuuB LoTu DtIHtTy, WhO utcO tHo
other day, enjoyed the, in England,
somewhat unusual distinction of hav-
ing served as an ordinary trooper in the
British cavalry, says the marquis de
Fontenoy in the New York Recorder.
Young, amiable and good looking, when
he left college and took up his abode in
London, he soon was drawn into q most
pernicious coterie. All those human
birds of prey who make their liveli-
hood by pluclSing young men of rank
and fortune ut once marked him as
their own. He was very wild, broke
the traces in every direction, sowed any
amount of wild oats and, finally. wound
up one morning after night of riot
nary soldier in the Second life guards
under his family name Of White. The
horror Of his relatives was inde-
scribable. The only person to take the
matter in any way quietly was the old
earl of Bantry, his father, who grimly
remarked that it was far better for Lord
Berehaven to be grooming his charger,
learning his drill, and cleaning his kit
quietly at the Spital barracks at Wind
sor than lounging about London with
the blacklegs and drunkards who had
been his associates.
During this period Of trooper life Of
Lord Berehaven rather odd and dra-
matte incident took place. A we'll
known money lender received one
morning visit from well-dressed
gentleman who represented himself as
being viscount Berchaven. eldest son
and heir of the earl of Bantry. and re-
quested loan. Tho money-lender,
Sam Lewis, put the usual questions,
which were answered satisfactorily,
and then told the young gentleman that
when he called again he would doubt
less be able to oblige him, In the event.
Of course, of the necessary inquiries
having elected the replies which he ex-
pected. The inquiries were made and
everything seemed all right, for the es-
capade of Lord Berehavens enlisting
was not generally known, and the
money-lender wrote to his visitor to in
form him that if on a certain day he
would call at his office in Pail Mall he
would only have to sign the note to get
the cash.
In the meantime, and by the merest
chance, the fact Of Lord Berehaven be.
| ing at that time simple trooper under
an assumed name at Windsor reached
| the ears of Sam Lewis, who Of course
| at once scented fraud. He put him.
self Immediately In communication
with Trooper White, who came up from
Windsor to see him, and who had no
difficulty in proving that he was the
| tlaw
they determined to organize most
dramatic coup de theater. The original
Lord Berehaven, with scarlet she'll
jacket, forage cap cooked over one ear,
whip in hand-the trooper undress uni
form au complet, in fact-was con-
4 cealed behind screen when the false
| Lord Berehaven came to sign the bill
and get the money. At the proper mo-
mont he emerged from his hiding place
and denounced the imposter, whom,
however, he declined to prosecute. For
the miscreant was no other than a very
near relative, whose name forbear to
mention, inasmuch as he Is now en-.
deavoring to live down his past.
Shortly afterward Lord Berehaven
left the army and undertook long trip
through the United States to Australia.
Although the journey did not benefit
his physical health-greatly damaged
by his follies and excesses-as much as
had been hoped, yet it certainly greatly
ameliorated his moral condition and
enabled him on his return to settle down
to q new life. His father died about
this time and he succeeded to the Ban
try estates in County Cork, which
amount to about seventy thousand
acres in area He morried In 1885 q
niece Of Lord Petre, but leaves no issue
being succeeded in his title by his uncle
may add that the Bantry peerage was
conferred upon the frst lord In 1897 BY
way Of recognition OF the great services
which he rendered in repeling tht
French feet when II entered Bantry
bay for the purpose Of landing an army
Of invasion.