The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13
FAIR DAUGHTERS OF MARYLAND
s'The Three Graces" Whose Beauty
Was Famous.

was Famous.
A tract of land comprising about 156
acres, Just outside the western limits of
Baltimore County and south of st. Agnes
Hospital and ST. Mary's Industrial School,
was offered for sale at auction Wednesday
at the Real Estate Exchange, but was
withdrawn after five small parcels, includ-
ing forty-two acres, had been purchased at
an average price of 1927 an acre.
The property is portion of the lands
owned in Maryland by the late Duchess of
Leeds, granddaughter of Charles Carroll
of Carrollton and daughter of Richard
Cation. after whom the town of Gainesville
is named.
The Duchess died in 1874 and in her will
directed that the real estate owned by er
in this country should be disposed of by
her executors and the money thus secured
should be used for the purchase of real
estate in England, all of which, together
with the English realty which she pos
sessed at the time of her death, was be-
queathed for life to the Marquis of Car
marthen, which is the courtesy title of the
heir to the dukedom OF Leeds. The pres
ent holder of the title is the grandson of a
cousin of the Duchess husband, she hav-
ing died without children.
The property put up for auction is but a
part of the estates in several counties in
MARYLAND which came to her from Charles
Carroll of Carrollton and his daughter 1t
was offered at first as q whole, but no bids
being made for this, the choice of fourteen
parcels of it was next offered. The bidding
for first choice was bit spirited, and it
was finally knocked down" for $500 an
acre to Ruxton M. Ridgeley. After that
the prices offered became steadily smaller
until the fifth purchase, when Auctioneer
Kirkland announced, after a consultation
with the American trustees of the estate
Messrs. Anthony A. Hirst and Alexander
Yearley Jr., that the remainder of the
land was withdrawn. 1--WE had expected
to get at least $500 an acre." said Mr.. Kirk
land, land not bit OF it can be secured for
less than $275 an acre."
The Duchess of Leeds was one of the
three famous daughters of Richard Cation,
who, from their beauty and charms, were
often called "The Three American Graces."
They became the wives of members of the
British nobility. Louisa Catherine, the
Duchess of Leeds, was the youngest of the
trio. Mary Cation, the eldest, was at first
the wife of Richard Patterson of Baltimore,
brother of Nine. Elizabeth Patterson Bona
parte, but in 1926 became the second wife
of the famous Marquis of Wellesley elder
brother of the still more famous Duke of
Wellington. Elizabeth Cation wBs married
in 1886 to Sir George William Stafford
birmingham, Baron Stafford.
The Duchess was herself welded twice.
She was first married in 1917 to Sir FELTON,
Elwell Bathurst-Hervey, colonel in the
army, and an aid-de-camp on Yelling
toms staff at the battle of Waterloo. The
following year her husband was made a
baronet, but in 1919 he died, and in 1928 his
widow became the wife of Francis Godol-
phin Darcy Osborne, Marquis of Carmar-
then, and eldest son of the SIKH Duke of
Leeds. He succeeded his father in the
dukedom in 1888, and died without issue
in 1852 His widow died in 1874, at the
age of 80. She was the last of the three
sisters to die The Marchioness of Welles-
ley had died in 1853, and Lady Stafford in
1862 None of them had any children.
The Duchess was philanthropic woman,
and during her lifetime used much Of her