The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-22
HIS UNBLUSHING VICE
Infamous Character Of the Late
Marquis of Ailesbury.
Brazen Amours with Concert Hall Sirens
of the Most Vulgar and Depraved
Peer of England.
New York. Advertiser.

New York Advertiser
The death of the Marquis of Ailesbury,
last week, removes one Of the most accom-
plished blackguards. noble or ignoble. from
Great Britain. In fact. for shameless
coarseness he has not been approached
since Manchester was in his prime. He
had an utter contempt for the common
decencies of life and would far rather joke
with a barmaid or patter slang with touts
and fellows of that ilk than associate with
the Prince of Wales himself. There was
nothing fin de steele about Lord Ailesbury.
He had the manners of a bargeman, the
speech of a costermonger, and was the
black sheep par excellence OF the House OF
Lords Some persons who feign contempt
for titles have said that his moral degen-
eracy was due to his being compelled to
go through life with his appalling tail of
dignities-Lord Henry Brudenell-Bruce,
Marquisate of Ailesbury, and the Earldoms
of Ailesbury, Cardigan and Bruce; the Vis-
count of Savernake, and the Baronies of
Stanton, wyvil and Bruce. Others
declared that he was no. blamable for de-
teriorating because he was merely
victim of the biological law of atavism-
the evil influence of one of his forefathers
Yet this hardly seems a fair excuse for
his moral obliouity. for the reason that he
is the only one of long line of Bruces
that ever so besmirched the family game.
Lord Ailesbury began sowing his wild
oats when he was about sixteen years old,
and he scattered them all over London and
the countryside as well. Far from being
ashamed of the crop he planted year after
year. Lord Ailesbury invited all the world
to watch the sport. He early showed
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horse racing. He kept a stable of racers
until his money began TO run low, and no
one except himself and the women them
selves ever knew how many acknowledgements
he had with. them. He was dehaTred from
the turf for the peculiar running OF his
horses and for failing to pay his racing
debts.
His Noble Lordship was plastic as
putty in the hands of sharp women. they
did himself. Nor had he keen eye Tor
feminine beauty, for many OF the nymphs
he was enamored OF were even more tnan
plain looking. While still in his teens Pa
Spanish premiere danseuse, wheedled him
out of swell turnouts jewels and love OF
a villa i'm St Johns Wood. all of which she
speedily transformed into ready money,
with which she coolly marched off to Sc
vile. One month lavishing money on a bar
maid. next on a trull, and fortnight later
picking and choosing from the free-and-
easy femininity OF concert halls and minor
theaters. butterfy-like he winged from
BOUGHT AN OPERA COMPANY
He started an opera company to support
firtatious Inez Montlbin in 1888, and. firing
of her. took Lollie Tid1lekins under his
wing. She was a concert hall singer. Just
while they were honeymooning Inez APP
peared and threatened to shoot him If he
didn't cut Miss Tiddlekins. Instead he
gave her a pair Of black eyes. His larks
kept his colleagues in the House of Lords
wondering what he would do next to bring
the nobility into further disgrace. His
lordship never kept them wondering very
long. Two OF his. knsmen. and honorable
mer. were also members OF the House Of
Lords t
II was one of his delights TO mount on
palfreys lot of SNOWY young women from
concert hall or pothouse and himself lead
the cavalcade Through Rotten Row, bow
ing to every face ne ever saw before
He once thought he possessed a horse
with quality enough TO win he Derby, a
prize every English nobleman yearns to