The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-10
/ LIBERTINE GONE.
mike of Marlborough Found
Dead in His Bed.
..es HAMMeRsLY's HARD LUCK.
-. fixed Up BIenhsim Palace st Great
Expense. and Now She VIII
BE Evicted.

,.x,ox Nov. a.-Ths Duke Of Marlborough
- Ind dead in bed at Blenheim palace this
morning.
- health than usual. All summer he had
-, vorklug bard over q telephone scheme
~ other ventures in London. When the
Saebsss. formerly Mrs. Hammersly, OF New
work. came to England after her marriage. she
,annd Bephein palace In the most diiapidated
.o,assiou All the expenses OF repairing the
..I.ce were net by the duchess, who spent in
- vay enormous sums OF the Hammersly
-o,ev Now aii this Is lost to her, a. the palace
s.co1nes the property OF the dukes son by his
s,st vife. hitherto known ~ the Marquis OF
ni.,dford. It IL probable that when the new
Surs tskss up his residence at Blenhsim palace
:. viIi be accompanied By his mother, with
mon, he has lived ever since her divorce In
,s,s syent /. will readily be seen that the OUCH
- will not even have the satisfaction OF living
!, the place she has gone to such expense to
improve. The city residence oil the duke VIII
.lso mass to his heirs.
rrbe late Duke of Marlborough did honor TO
Il. sueestry. John Churchill, the first duke,
-ss the son OF a needy hanger-on at the court OF
charies IL, who had impoverished himself Dy
snnnortipg the royalist ca~e. John had q sis
=, Lrsbeila by name, an unsttractfve girl, who
"a. maid OF honor TO the Duchess OF York The
vitty king used TO say OF his brother James
ugy mstresses that his father confessof must
ssye selected them by way OF penance: so Ara
MIA the maid of the duchess, became the mis-
to-. ol the duke. Arabeilas seduction was the
,aasus of Johns promotion in the army; but If
- srrned 70 good account his sisters vices, he
80 We. better market of his own Barbara
Palmer Duchess of Cleveland, whose husband
tsa hesu created Earl OF Castleman by Chareis
n as the reward of his wife's dishonor, took a
v,oIent liking to the handsome young officer.
On one occasion the king surprised this
rset,y pair under very suspicious circumstances,
rhercipon Churchill leaped out of the
viudow: for which hazardous feat the duchess
seesented him with $4,000. This was by no
means the only pecuniary favor Churchill re-
e,dyed from Barbara and other ladies' of the
eout Macaulvy speaks OF him a. q man "who
cvsd his rise to his sisters dishonor, who had
Zen Kept By the most proiuse. imperious and
shameiess CT harlots. and whose public life. to
noe who can look steadily through the blaze
d rnius and glory, will appear prodigy of
turlgude" The succeeding seven dukes, in.
esGsg the one just dead, were none so bril-
ant = the one who earned the title, but
Iautsusness seems to have been hereditary.
sDsIs Of Divorces" having figured in the suit
ksssht and won by his wife, daughter OF the
Das Of Abercorn.nnd as correspondent In a
number Of others. He was born In 1874 His
isshss sold part of the estate, the family jewels
sud his library in order to get money to
raander. The present duke sold bis paintings
sud sst collection, committed the family
rnsion. and was still hard up About
b recoup his fortunes. The New York '40O''
vsrs very kind to him. Mrs. Paran Stevens was
especially good. The best the duke could do
~ to marry Mrs. Hammersiy, . widow with
o. enormous life income aud who was anxious
to marry q nohleman, no matter how disreput-
sMe The couple have not lived happily to-
ssther The dukes total income was $4,000,
Dot nearly enough to cult his tastes. His father
sion for 1856 600, and he realized large sum on
lbpAintings; yet he was always in debit