The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-20
WERE MARRIED WHEN YOUNG
GREAT MEN WHO WERE WE'D
DED EARLY IN LIFE.
Facts Disproving the Old Maxim
That "a Young Man Married Is
Young Man MARRIED"
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If there be any truth at all in the
maxim, "A young man married is a
young man marred," it is at least a
rule which is proven by more notable
! exceptions than any other within our
knowledge; for it is an easily demon
strable fact that the ranks of our IA
nous and most successful men are very
largely recruited from those who mar
| ried in the early twenties.
OF our leading statesmen there are
few who have not. tempted fate by
marrying long before they reached the
age of 80; although none has been quite
so daring as Mr.. Richie, the president
of the board of trade, who married in
1858, just as he was emerging from his
teens. To this rash STEP which was
frowned upon by his prudent relative,
Mr.. Ritchie owes much of his career.
Lord Kimberley reached his majority
and married the daughter of Lord Clare
in the same year; and Earl Spencer was
married man at %.
Sir H. Campbell Zimmerman had not
long left Trinity college when he grad
uated as a benedick at the age of a.
and Mr.. Long and Lord Lansdowne
eQualed his matrimonial record.
Mr. Asquith, as an unknown and
struggling barrister, led his first wife to
the altar when he was 25; and at the
same age Lord George Hamilton mar
ried, and Mr.. Chamberlain took the
first of his three matrimonial plunges.
Mr.Goschen married at %; and Lord
Salisbury, then an obscure younger son
with small means and almost less pros
poets, was bold enough to marry at q,
although he had to take his bride to a
poor home in the purlieus of the strand.
At q Sir Henry Fowler. then a strug-
Cling young solicitor, was tempted to
wed; and at the same age Lord Halls
bury married his first wife, and Lord
Balfour, of Burleigh, secretary for Scot
land. led Lord Aberdeen's sister to the
altar.
Lord Rosebery was 81 when he mar
ried the daughter and heireSs of Baron
Meyer. de Rothschild; and at the same
age the present home secretary Joined
the majority. Leaving out of consid-
Grafton Mr.. Bryce and the Duke of
Devonshire, who were very late con-
verts 10 matrimony, our principal
statesmen took to themselves wives at
an average of p, an age which in these
cautious days would be considered i'm
prudent, if not reckless.
Even among our lawyers. in whom a
hard and uncertain profession ought to
develop abnormal caution, many of our
most successful men have married in
the immature twenties- If they are
correct, Mr.. Justice Day was imprudent
enough to marry at 20. three years be-
fore he was called to the bar. 1t is lit
tie wonder that man of such courage
and enterprise found his way to the
-ermine.
Sir Robert Romer married at "a,
year after he left Cambridge as senior
and at % Sir Edward Clarke
and Sir Walter Phillmore felt justified
in wedding. The lord chief justice mar
ried his Belfast bride at 26. when he
was studying for the bar, and the same
age saw Sir Alfred Wills and Sir Ar
thur Kekewich married men. Lord
Justice Vaughan Williams and Sir Ford
North waited until they were q, and
Lord Davey two years longer.
Very many of our bishops have been
to matrimony before 80. The
bishop of Exeter CDR. Bickersteth) be-
came a deacon and a husband at the
age of %. and the same age was fatal
to the bishop of Colchester. Among
other bishops who did not survive the
.twenties' as bachelors are Chester,
Ely, London, st. Asaph, Shrewsbury
and Truro.
Many of our most brilliant soldiers |
have made the same matrimonial
Lord Roberts married at q,
Sir Donald Stewart at %, Field-Marshal I
Sir John Lintorn Simmons at %, and |
Sir Evelyn Wood at 29.
Our men of letters are proverbially |
mprudent, and have married young \
since and before the days of Shakes 1
oeare, who welded Anne Hathaway at /
IS; and indeed the highest place on I
every ladder of life seem to be occupied |
)y men who have given hostage TO for
une at an early age.
OF successful men of business, Lord I
the millionaire and inven-
or, married at "a: Sir Charles Mark
Palmer, the maker of Jarrow, married
It the same age, while Mr.. Ismay,
ounder of the White Star line, took to
himself a wife at %.
Sir Richard Tangye married at &C. Sir
William Arrol at %, and Lord Kelvin at
s. The Duke of Argyll married at q,
IN example which many would like to
ollow under similar conditions.