The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-02-14
4 sRArroHs EAMrLH


Deocen0nNto
Gaished and RespeSteA IN EngiasA.
"one Sunday recently" said well.known
New Yorker. II sat through very excellent
sermon which distinguished clergyman Of
this city preached. It was on the subject Of
faithfulness to trusts. and the eloquent divine
used as one OF his examples OF the earthly
consequences of unfathfulness what he
termed the wretched ending OF Benedict Ar
mold. who he said. after few years OF re-
morseful existence. stunned and spurned with
lonthng by the very people his treachery was
intended to greatly serve died alone and in
bitterness, his family scattered and ashamed
OF the name they bore. such was the oblo1uy
attaching to 1t. Who is there in tho world to-
day. exclaimed tho clergyman. who acknow-
lodges ancestry In Benedict Arno!dy
Il could have answered the reverend gen.
tlemans question II an answer had been ex-
pected The clergymans understanding Of
the ending OF tho traitor Arnold and the hiding
OF their identity by his descendants seems to
DO the popular ono. l. in common with my
countrymen. once had share In that belief
myself. sequence such as that would have
been retributive justice. Of course. but IL is
not fact. spent year In rural England a few
years ears ago AM, and in Misunderstanding found one
man me 81 tha Smes b that 81 clergy
Edwin Giadwln Arnold OF Little Iissen.
h berhc A66b icy, had been in tho neigh.
Was srSndson Of ATnoa
Shs 81 course great surprise to me-
body there. and yet the clergyman Was 81 greatly
regard This led me to Investigate and soon
g9puiar American tradition q It's fate Bene e
ed but he d none Of his s aSse sn has
as yet seen the necessity 81 doing 30. II had
hive been az much surprised as was when I
81 tG that there are great many people
nnc esS wSrq rn dHdiday who acknowledge tho
ssr yass ESSa sP %ssn r. ssa s
hss @ora RdMa n9 sSpyen one dos
Gsatsnant IN the sixth Bengal aS Savary s q ths
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son son Arnold became Lieutenant;G General in
q Bsle Ess y ssans
GROVE. ESSEX. He died in 1854. and his wife
Goohs Of d ss apd0S
married Anne Brown. He died In India In 1873.
The only one q Benedict Arnold,s sons
ses IN the Btsh army being
GaPHn is he aSS d.ur H.
$sSSa asa y the s0Es Savs shd GsR
Edwin qladwin. William Trail, Margaret
Stewart Elizabeth Sophia. Georgiana Phlpps.
Tra Hrnod sodsr as father ann
grandfather and all Of his uncles had been.
He became 2 Captain IN the famous Fourth
Regiment OF the British line. and was killed at
Capt. p w William He fte $a Arnods daueh
ters married clergymen Of the Church OF Eng.
land; Margaret WAS married to the Rey. Rob.
eert II. Rogers: Elizabeth to the Rev. Bryant
Burgess: Georgiana To- the Rev. John stephen
Edwin Gladwin Arnold the, first son Of Capt.
William Fitch Arnold. was the only one OF his
children who continued the name. He is
Clergyman Of the established Church Of Eng
ian land being 10 years Of age and rec
ried. in 1852. Charlotte Georgiana. eldest
daughter of Lord Henry Cholmondeley. son Of
the MARQUIS of Cholmondeley., Nine children
hnye been born to him. Edward Cholmondeley.
an aansy Abe h9 ya a
Seymour. Herbert Tolemache. Maria Eliza.
beth; Emma Charlotte Georgiana. and Mabel
Arnold by inheritance owns the valuable Ca
grandfatk her BY the BRITISH Governme ef '"4'
Benedict Arnold's only daughter. Sophia
Matilda, married Col. Pownall Phipps OF tho
British East Indian army He was related to
the Easl Of she DIED ls3S
Little Mtssenden Abbey. Buckinghamshire
an old estate that belonged to tho Church be.
fore tho Reformation. The'record Of all Of
Benedict Arnold's sons and erandsons Is that
guished: so It will hardly do to hold them up
any longer as frghtful examples Of the conse-
Quences OF their ancestors misdeeds."