The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-24

Lord Justice of Appeal LoPEs Of the
English Supreme Court of Judicature, who
has acquired a high reputation as a Judge
during a service Of twenty-one years on the
bench, through n piece of puerile vanity
has made of himself a laughing stock in
England, and has moreover raised the ques-
tion Of the compatibility OF high judicial
functions with the public utterance Of what
Mr.. w. S. GILBERT systematically calls
"~taradiddles.' The Lord Justice was
raised to the peerage on the occasion Of
the Queens Jubilee, and selected the title
of Lord LUDLOW Of Haywood. in Wiltshire.
No one found fault with his elevation, and
he had an undoubted right to select any
name he wished for his barony, so long as
he did not take one to which others had q
right, which Sir HENRY LoPEs was careful
not to do.
Unluckily for himself, however, disre-
garding the warning of RABELAIs's Judge,
he felt called upon to explain the grounds
for his decision, and in a letter printed with
his consent in the newspapers made this
statement:
"The reason I took the name OF LUDLOW WIS b.
cause It was my mothers name. She came of q very
old wiltshire family with q recorded pedigree since
l<oo. Among her ancestors arc to be found EDnuND
LUDLOW. General OF the Forces in Ireland in the time
of CROMWELL the regtcide. Q Sir HENRY LUDLOW. Bart.
q Baron LUDLOW. a viscount LUDLOW. and an Earl
LUDLOW. whose title became exttnct. In 1eGo."
Herein he violated Q rule of conduct, laid
down after much experience with courts of
law by that once famed New England
worthy. STEPHEN BURROUGHS of Hanover.
n II . 81 Neyor talI n liz whan fha frufh
can be proved against you"
On the ather's side Lord LUDLOW has an
in%disputable Jewish pedigree of which he
might we'll be proud. He 10 the grandson
of ABRAHAM FRANCO by his wife ESTHER,
sister Of Sir MANAssEH LoPEs, Bart,
n daughter of MoRpEoA1 RoDRIaUEs
LoPEs by his wife REBEcCA, daughter Of
MANAssEH PERERA. He can find no purer
race or longer authenticated pedigree than
that Of the Portuguese Jews from whom his
family descends. The maternal ancestors
he has chosen to boast of instead, not only
are not his own, but could easily be shown
not to be his, as has been lone mercilessly
in the Saturday Rcuietu by the person sign.
ing himself ", who for some time past has
been exposing the illegitimate use of armo-
rial bearing and false pedigrees. He shows
that every one Of the Lord Justices asser-
tions is false. EDMUND LUDLOW, the regi-
eide, had no children. No one was ever
Viscount LUDLOW, outside of the family
of HERBERT. There was a Baron and Earl
LUDLOW, but he did not belong to the Wilt
shire family, and the last holde Of the tt
tie, who died in 1912, when the titles be-
came extinct, as he had no relatives, left
his property to Lord JONI RUSSELL. At
that time Sir HENRY LoPEs and his broth
ers were all alive. There was never a Sir
HENRY LUDLOW, Bart, and the Wiltshire
family, whose pedigree goes back to 400,
Is not the one to which the Lord Justices
mother belonged. Thus every one of Lord
LUDI.ow's averments is directly traversed,
and the Saturday RerieD goes so far as to
print some jeering verses ending:
1.-THE Judge was stripped Of his foolish side
Gwen as you and ID;
But he might have known what his letter implied
Though II isn't on record his Lordship tried
SO the Barony lived. but the pedigree died;
For every one knew that the Judge -
Gwen as you and D."
A man in the highest judicial position
stamping himself in his old age a renegade
to an honorable race and religion, and at
tempting to foist on the public n spurious
pedigree, is not an edifying spectacle. But
they will do such things in England.