The San Francisco call., 1895-07-30
ABOUT MEN OF NOTE.

Baron Ferdinand Rothschild enjoys the dis
tinction of being the only member of his house
who has been honored by visit from Queen
Victoria, who spent day at his beautiful
country seat, Waddeston Manor. He is q
brother-in-law of Lord Rothschild, and al
though born at Paris of parents who were citi-
zens of Frankfort, was brought up as Vien-
nese and remained an Austrian until the date
when he settled in London and became a natu-
rallied Englishman. He has no connection
with the great banking house that bears his
name, so far as actual management is con-
cerned, but devotes himself exclusively to his
ornamental role of host, only occasionally at
tending sitting in the House of Commons.
He is certainly the most popular and socially
influential member of the Rothschild family
and particular favorite at Marlborough
House.
Victor Cavendish, returned on the Unionist
ticket for the western division of Derbyshire,
is son of the late Lord Edward Cavendish,
third brother of the present Duke of Devon
shire. The latter being childless Mr.. Caven-
dish is heir to the Dukedom and to the vast en-
tailed estates. He Is graduate of Cam bridge
University, has represented his present con-
stituency since 1891 and is married to Lady
Evelyn Fitzmaurice, eldest daughter of the
Marquis of Lansdowne, the Secretary of State
for War in the new Cabinet. 1t was his uncle,
Lord Frederick Cavendish, who was murdered
in Phoenix Park, Dublin, in 1892, within few
hours after his arrival in the Irish capital to
assume the Office of Secretary for Ireland.
There is not in fact or in fiction career
more tortuous than that of Henry NJ. Stanley,
the poorhouse waif, a Ginx's baby, a cabin-boy
on the Mississippi, an involuntary acquirer of
American citizenship, an Omaha reporter, the
pioneer of large parts of Africa, the finder of
Livingstone, the rescurer of Emin Pasha,
bridegroom in Westminster Abbey, honored of
the greatest of the institutions of Great Britain
mobbed in the city whose freedom" had been
impressIvely presented to him, finally landing
in the House of Commons, Embroidered by his
contact with the world in larger variety of
experiences than ever fell to the lot of any
other man of the age.-Chicago Times Herald.
Sir Henry Fletcher, returned on the Unionist
ticket for the Lewes division of Sussex, is
descendant of that Henry Fletcher of Cocker
mouth Castle who had charge of Mary Queen
of Scots, when that ill-fated sovereign was con-
veyed in strict custody from WorKington to
Fotheringay Castle, where she was executed.
The Fletcher family still retains letter of
thanks which she wrote to him in response to
the presentation of black velvet robe, which
she wore on the scaffold Sir Henry served in
the Guards in the Crimea. but retired from the
army at the close of the war. He has sat in
Parliament since 1880, and was for many
years parliamentary groom-in-waiting to the
Queen.
Secretary of State Olney, like every one else
outside of Rhode Island, pronounces his name
as it is spelled. The inhabitants of that little
State, however. persist in calling him Secretary
"Owney." This popularity of pronunciation
is general in Little Rhody, and the thriving
mill district of Olneyville, near Providence, is
always known as "Owneyville." 1t is said that
until very recent years the name Almy was
pronounced Amy.