The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-09
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4 Is the Only Direct Descendant OF the Earl
OF Perth and Duke of Melfort-A Stir
ring Romance OF the Scottish and the
French Peerage.
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/ While the Hon. Mary Harriet Geral.
dine Drummond of Brooklyn is look
ing for a position her great grand.
father, George Drummond. earl OF
Perth and Melfort and duke of Mel
fort in France, is said 10 be looking for
her She is ready TO be found by the
earl's attorneys and expects eventually
10 come into possession of his great
estate.
MAY, as she calls herself, is IS years
old and worked until recently as wait
ress in an ice cream parlor in Brooklyn.
She is striving TO make her own living
and said recently that she would not
cease looking for another situation be-
cause of the news that her great-grand-
father had begun a search for her. She
said she was the only direct descendant
of the Scottish earl, whose income
amounts to $3.50, 600 year.
The romance that finds Its climax in
the straitened circumstances of an
apparent heir 10 an estate worth mil
lions of dollars has been told hereto
fore, but il will be news 10 most Amer
leans, as il was to Miss Drummond.
that her great grandfather, now 80
years old, is seeking information about
her, probably with view to the dispo-
sition of his estate. There are other
claimants to the property, but it seems
likely that the title will disappear upon
the death of the present earl, as it has
done before during the seven centuries
since it was created.
George Drummond is the sixth earl
of Perth and the fourteenth duke of
Melfort. He was born in London, May
6, 1907. His lordship, in lS4l, estab-
lished before the conseil 'etat Of France
and the tribunal de la Seine his descent
from the earls and dukes of Perth and
Melfort and his right of succession TO
the French honors of Duke of Melfort
and Perth The earldom of Perth was
revived in 1853 by the special command
and recommendation of Queen Vic
toria, through an act of parliament
unanimously passed by both houses.
George Henry Charles Francis Nal
colin, Viscount Forth, the only son Of
the Earl of Perth, died eight years later,
leaving one son, George Essex Montifex,
Lord Drummond. 1t was he who while
yet boy married his grandmother
maid, a number of years his senior,
came to this country and preferred men,
ial employment and poor surroundings
to deserving his wife for the old earl's
favor. Lord Drummond died in New
York city in 1887 and was buried in
Trinity churchy ard, the expense of the
funeral being betrayed by several of the
Scottish residents of that city. He left
one child, daughter, who for num-
Der of years past has supported herself
by her labor.
Miss Drummond remarked recently
that she was making no plans on what
she would do in case she inherited the
vast estates of her great-grandfather
He knows where / am, she said,
land will have no difficulty in reach
ing me. Meanwhile / am not max.
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great grandfather and never have been
on the other side. have seen pictures
of his estate, and they show that it is
very beautiful. But l am most inter-
ested just now in earning my living"
Miss Drummond is bright girl,
rather good looking, and keen to keep in
touch with the affairs Of the aged Earl
of Perth. She lives with her mother,
Mrs Henry Masters, in Prospect avenue.
Brooklyn. Their home is neatly fur
nished, but Mrs. Masters, with Agar
old daughter to care for, shares Miss
Drummond's anxiety that she may OBJ
tain position. The heiress of the Earl
of Perth, after partial education in
the Booklyn grammar and high schools.
decided to be trained nurse, but she
found this work too trying for one of
her age.-New York Herald.