The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-09-21
HAVE NO MALE ISSUE.
MANY GREAT NAMES IN ENG
LAND ARE EXTINCT.
IIInstrious Britishers Who Have M
Male Descendants 10 Represent Them
and Bear Their Cognomens-Great-
ness Seems TO Die Ont Quickly.

ness Seems TO bic Ont Quickly.
No direct male descendant OF the
Lord Protector survives 10 enjoy the
/ tribute paid 10 the memory of his
epoch making ancestor the last Crom-
well in a direct line from "Old Noll'
having been one Oliver. an attorney,
the son OF worthy. grocer of Snow
Hill. In this connection 1t is interest
Ing TO note how many of our illustrlous
dead are now nnfepresented by direct
male descendants Here IS an ample
list of names Of light aud leading IN
literary history: Chaucer. Shakespeare.
Spenser Milton. Gowley. Butler. Dry
den. Pope, Swift Addison. Cowper,
Goldsmith, DR. Johnson, Byron, Shell
ley, Keats, Tom Moore. Charles Reade.
and X. l.. Stevenson. and of not one
of these land doubtless there are 9th
ers) does "A direct male representative
exist. Turn from literary celebrities
TO naval and military heroes. 10 states
men and to politicians. Sir Philip Sid
ney. illustrious IN letters and In war.
left but .'one fair daughter" who died
without Issue. Sir Walter Raleigh's
male descendants have long since died
out, or have descended 10 such soeinl
depths as TO be untraceable. Sir Fran
els Drake and Nelson. the naval heroes
of two great fighting epochs. died child
less. The patriot Hampden's last male
descendant passed away "a lonely
bachelor In 1754. Gen. Monk. Duke
OF Albemarle, had but one son, and
with him expired the hardly earned
and newly acquired family honor.
Ihough 1t Is not infrequently assum-
ed that the Dukes of Marlborough of
our day are directly descended in the
male line from the great Churchill this
i not the case. That splendid soldiers
only son died In infancy. and his hon
ofs ana possession passed TO his daugh-
ters The great Lord Peterborough had
sons but no grandson. Ill-starred
straHord married thrice, but each OF
his sons died without issue. The cele-
DRAFTED Duke Of Ormonde's direct line
ehued with his grandson's death at
AFlgnon. Clarendon. famous historian
OF the rebellion, though he left fonr
SUNS had but one grandson. who died
Without male isshe Horace Walpole
WAS the last male descendant of Sir
Robert, the famous minister. and he
never married. Bollngbroke twice made
matrimonial venture, but had no child
by either wife. The historic family of
fllt In respect Of direct male heirs
ceased In 1898. while the rival house OF
FOX lasted but little longer. Charles
James Fox left no heir. and the only
son of his nephew. the third Lord Hol-
land, died chlldless mt Naples lust forty
years ago. Edmund Burke had bur
one son. who died in early manhood
leaving his broken-hearted father to
excialm; Mine is a grief that cannot
be comfortedr'
AS with the statesmen. SO with the
philosophers and scientists. Neither
Bacon, Newton, Locke, Davy nor Stu
art Mill left a son TO Inherit his fame.
while of historians. Hume. Gibbon and
Maeaulay We're never married. Among
our great painters, Reynolds, Lawrence
and the late Lord leighton were bach
elors. Hogarth perpetrated "A romantic
love match. which was fruitless, and
Turner, the great magician of color
and canvas. twice soured by early dis.
appointments, never married Handel.
who may almost be claimed as an Eng
lishman, had no wife but his art Bra
ham. perhaps our greatest singer,
whose daughter some of us remember
as Lady Waldegraye. l believe, left no
son; while Of the giants of the foot
lights, Dayy Garrick and John Kemble
died childless, and the direct male Is
sue of Edmund kean ended with the
death of his son Characterization Pail
Mall Gazette.