The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-14
FAIR DAUGHTERS OF MARYLAND.
"The Three Graees" whose Beauty
Was Famous.
From the Baltimore Sun.

From the Baltimore Sun.
A tract of land comprising about $50 acres
just outside the western limits of Balti-
more city. in the Thirteenth district of
Baltimore county, and south of st. Agnes
hospital and st. Marys Industrial School,
was offered for sale at auction Wednesday
at the real estate exchange, but was with
drawn after five small parcels, including
forty-two acres. had been purchased at an
average of 1927 an acre.
The property is a portion of the lands
owned in Maryland by the late Duchess Of
Leeds, granddaughter of Charles Car
roll of Carrollton, and daughter of Richard
Cation, after whom the town of Catonville
is named.
The duchess died in 1874. and in her will
directed that the real estate owned by her
in this country should be disposed of by
her executors and the money thus secured
should be used to purchase real estate in
England, all of which, together with the
English realty which she possessed at the
time of her death, was bequeathed for life
TO the Marquis of Carmarthen, which is
the courtesy title of the heir to the duke
dom of Leeds. The present holder of the
title is a garndson of a cousin of the
duchess husband, she having died with
out children.
Inc property put up at 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. It
was offered at first as a whole but no bids
Delng made for this, the choice of fourteen
parcels of it was next offered The bidding
Ior nrst choice was a bit spirited, and it
was finally knocked down. for $3.50 an
acre to Mr.. Ruxton NJ. Ridgely. 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land was withdrawn. I'VE had expected
to get at least $500 an acre" said Mr.. Kirk
land, land not a bit of it can be secured
for less than $275 an acre"
me 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."
Ihey became the wives of members of the
BRUSH nobility. Louise Catherine, the
Duchess of Leeds. was the youngest of the
TRIO. Mary Cation, the eldest, was at first
the wife of Richard Patterson of Balti-
more, brother of Nine. Elizabeth Patterson
Bonaparte, but in 1925 became the second
wife of the famous Marquis of Wellesley,
eldest brother of the still more famous
Duke of Wellington. Elizabeth Cation was
Staftord-Jerningham, Baron Stafford.
the duchess was herself welded twice
she was first married in 1917 to Sir FELTON,
ElWel Bathurst-Hervey a colonel in the
army and an aide-de-camp on yelling
Ton stan 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 Francise Godol-
phln Darcy Osborne, Marquis of Car
marthen, and eldest son of the sixth Duke
or Leeds. He succeeded his father in the
dukedom in 1888, and died in 1874 at the age
Oh ~. She was the last of the three sisters
10 die. The Marchioness of Wellesley had
died in 1853. and Lady Stafford in 1862.
None OF them had any children.
me duchess was a philanthropic woman
and during her lifetime used much of her
share of the estates, which she and her sis
ters inherited equally from their mother
ana grandfather, to establishing and sup
porting two orphanages-one for boys at
Mayhelds, in County Sussex England and
one Tor girls at Bletchingly, in the same
county. In her will she provided literally
Tor these two institutions, which are under
the control of Roman Catholic orders, and
also gave Archbishop Manning 5000 for
the maintenance. support and education OF
young men studying for holy orders in the
Catholic church.
Richard Cation, the father of the Three
Graees," was an Englishman, who came to
Baltimore in 17S5.