The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-07-13
NEWS AND GOSSIP
OF FOREIGN LANDS
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Two of the grandest castles in Eng
| land are for rent, and are being adver-
| tised, not only in English, but in the
American papers. One of them is Chill
| lingham, the seat of the Earls Of Tan
| kerville, one of the finest of the old
| border castles, situated in the beautiful
| Glendale district, near the Cheviot
Hills, and surrounded by an extensive,
| park, famous for its herd of wild white
cattle The present Earl of Tankerville
used to be well known in this coun-
try prior to his fathers death by the
| name of Lord Bennett, and is married
to an American girl, who halls from
Tacoma, and who, like himself, is pro-
foundly interested in evangelism,
Christian science, faith cure, and other
similar movements. Inasmuch as the
fortune to which Lord Tankerville sue
cedeed at his fathers death was ample
enough to admit of his living on his
estate, despite the heavy debts which
he had contracted during the course CT
a particularly rapid youth, his action in
endeavoring to rent his ancestral cas-
tie must be ascribed TO religious
grounds, to a notion that the occu-
pancy of a magnificent castle is not al
together in keeping with the calling
of street preacher, and that the mon
ey obtained by renting the place could
be well employed in furthering the
cause of the Christian science cult.
The other castle for rent is Inyerary,
and the American millionaire who
chooses to lease this place will have a
duke for a landlord and royal duch
ess for q landlady. Inverary Castle be-
longs to the Duke and Duchess Of Ar
gyll. They are Offering it for rent, not
so much that they need money, al
though they are far from rich, but be-
cause, having no children Of their own
TO succeed to the estates, and being
both considerably over so years of age,
they do not see the advantages of pay
ing out the large sum of money which
would be needed in order to put In
verary into proper state of repair, and
to arrange it according to their own
sense OF what is artistic and luxurious,
seeing that their own tenure of the
place cannot be very long one. In
verary has undergone but little change
during the past 100 years. 1t is very
grand. but it is likewise also somewhat
barbaric, and lacks many of those COM
forts and eonveniences which, at the
close of the nineteenth century, are re-
garded as Indispensable to the daily
life of the well-to-do. You can i'm
agine haggis being served at Inyerary
Castle, but you cannot picture TO youc
self the gastronomic masterpieces of
French chef appearing on the ducaf
table Somehow or another. they would
clash with the surroundings. The late
Duke Of Argyle liked haggis. and there
is even n story told of head butler.
second butler and four footmen being
in attendance one day when he was
lunching in solitary grandeur OF this
homely and peculiarly Scotch dish
Princess Louise does not like haggis
You have said that. you can understand
why she does not care to take up her
residence at Inverary. which she would
have to surrender to her brother-in-
law. Lord Archibald Campbell. the mo-
ment that her husband died. Lord Ar
chic being the next heir.
In order TO realize the sensation ere
ated by the Beckett suit. now in prog
ress In England. il is necessary to ex-
plain that the late William Beckett,
Denison. n p. whose double life is
now for the first time publicly exposed.
was the younger brother Of the almost
nonagsnerian Lord Grimthorpe. who. Of
all the members OF the House Of Lords.
excepting the spiritual peers. Is most
profoundly versed in ecclesiastical mat
tiers. being regarded as sort OF lay
bishop, an impression which is con-
frmed by the fact that be is not only
chancellor. but likewise temporal vi
car-general Of the Archbishoprsc Of
York His brother. William. Is now
shown By the cause eelehre- 70 have
sqaandered colossal sums On the wo-