The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-18
BACKSTAIRS ARISTOCRATS.
TITLED PERsOKAGEs WHO CAME
FROM HUMBLE WALKS.


They Have Risen to Nobility From
the Stable and the Kitchen-Therc
Are others Who Are Menials-A
Lady Mayoress of London Who
Was Once a Chnmbermaid-The
Widowed Princess of Battenburg
Sprnng From the Kitchen.
Ex-Attache in the New York Tribune
The topsy-turvydom of modern life in
the Old World is strikingly exemplifed
by the fact that whereas there are among
the European nobility a large number of
titled personages who may be said to
have risen in more or less remote de-
gree from the kitchen and from the sta
BILE, there is on the other hand an equally
big contingent of mem bers of the aristoc-
racy who, in spite of the handles to their
names, are at the present engaged in
mental occupations. Attention is attract
ed to this popularity by the recent APP
pointment of the English baronet Sir Hor-
ace Rumbold to the post of British am
bassador at Vienna. Sir Horace, who
may be said to have begun his diplomatic
career at Washington during the presi-
dency of Zachary Taylor, and whose first
wife was the daughter. Of the late Col.
Harrington, United states envoy to Swift
zerland is the gPeat-grandson- of a young
footman, who, after serving as an at
tache of the buffers pantry in several
private families in London, had finally
become attached to the staff Of domestic
rtc af Art uia rt-ba Nv
quicl1ness and smartness of appearance,
he managed to win the good will of a
director of the East Indian Company.
The latter, with the object of giving him
a chance to improve his condition in life,
nominated MIN to some subordinate post
in the civil service of the Indian gov
eminent where the ex-footman rose, step
by step, until at length he retired as
baronet as governor of the great presi-
dency of Madras with it's 100000 inhab-
itants, and as a privy councillor to the
queen.
In Paris one of the most influential and
popular leaders of society is the widowed
Marquse Herve de St. Denis, who has re-
Gently contracted a new matrimonial al
lance with the Baron de Warn, only son
and heir of the multi millionaire president
of the Orleans Railroad company. Her
blonde beauty is of the most ethereal kind
and her dainty person is distinguished by
SO much aristocratc elegance
that no one to g., look at
her would ever dream that her father
had begun his career as mere stable boy
who in the service of the last reigning
Duke of Parma, was promoted from one
post to another until he blossomed forth
as a general, a baron and as prime minis
ter of the Duchyof Parma, besides being
decorated with the grand crosses of most
of the orders of chivalry of Europe.
Lady Evans who but three years ago
was as Lady Mayoress of London dispens-
ing magnificent hospitality at the Mansion
house to crowned heads and royal person
ages, foreign as well as English, was
nothing but a chamber-maid at the OAK
| hotel, a Sevencaks, in Kent, when her nus
band first met and married her. Her IA
Their was a village plumber and her mother
until the date of her own marriage, a cook
and general servant. At the close of Sir
David Evans term of office as Lord May
or Of London, a very distinguished com
pahy including archbishops, peers and
cabinet ministers, assembled at the Guild
HAN in the city of London to present to
Lady Evans portrait of her husband by
| the late Sir John Milais, Gin kindly re-
membrance of.the graceful help which she
had rendered" during the term of office of
Sir David.
on the continent there is no more an
cient or illustrious family than that Of
Kinsky, the chief of which bears the title
of Prince of the Holy Roman Empire.
Two of its most distinguished members,
the Counts Eugene and Octavius, both of
them privy councillors of the emperor
and Knights of the Golden Fleece, married
domestic servants, Eugene taking his
wife from the laundry, while the Countess
Octavius Kinsky was formerly the cham
bermaid at a small inn. The latter lady
has rendered herself very obnoxious to
her husbands family by her grasping
propensfties But the late Countess Eu-
gene. the ex-washerwoman of Ischal, was
a singularly charming woman, univer-
sally beloved at Vienna, and, although
she never asked for presentation at court,
the names of quite a number of members
of the imperial family figured on her
visiting list.
The widowed Princess Alexander of
Battenberg. whose husband at one time
ruled over Bulgaria, may likewise be said
to have sprung from the kitchen, her
father having been the valet and her
mother the cook OF the old Austrian Gen.
de Martini Yet in spite of this paren-
tage Princess Alexander is treated as
sister-in-law by the similarly widowed
Princess Henry of Battenberg, who is
daughter of Queen Victoria. Her majesty
having shown great kindness and consid-
Grafton toward Princess Alexander of Bat
tenburg, acknowledging her as kins-
woman
The second wife of the late Lord Bran
well had originally been his cook, while
Lady Hawkins, who is the better half OF
the eminent English judge OF that name,
was originally a housemaid, as was also
the widow Of the Grand Old Man OF
Australia Sir Henry Parkes. King Joa-
ohm OF Naples, from whom the entire