The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21


sAuld Lang Syne' and God Save the
Queen Large crowds met the volunteers
at Southampton and gave them ringing
send-off as they embarked on the trans
ports Ariosto. Kinfauns Castle and Gaul.
The Duchess OF Marlborough bid goodbye
to her husband.
The Duke, whose family name is Charles
Richard John Spencer Churchill, can wear
several titles If he chooses. among them'
the Duke of Marlborough. Marquis OF
Blandford, Earl OF Sunderland, Baron
Spencer and Prince of Mindelheim In Sua-
bia, of the Holy Roman Empire.
FOURTH OF THE FAMILY.
When the Duke reaches South Africa he
will be the fourth member of the famous
Churchill family at the front. The three
others are Lieutenant Winston Churchill.
who was captured by the Beers. and who
lately escaped from Pretoria; Lady Sarah
Churchill Wilson, an aunt of the lieutenant,
who went out as a nurse. was csptured and
exchanged for a Boer prisoner in the hands
of the British, and John Churchill, a
younger brother of Lieutenant Churchill
John is just lowering around his majority,
but. being a Churchill. he could not in his
nature refrain from going forward TO the
place where glory is to be won or big deeds
done.
The present duke differs very much in ap-
pearance from the general run of the
Churchills, although he bears striking re-
semblance to the great duke. his ancestor
and the foremost general of his age. He is
somewhat below the average size, is slen-
der and has a sallow complexion. aquiline
nose and dark brown hair. His favorite
attitude discloses him standing with his
arms across his breast and one hand strok-
ing his chin. In a general way he has
rather bored look and his lip has an ex-
preston of cyncism. Those who know
him well, however. say that his cyncism is
only skin deep.
The Churchils are noted for marrying
into American families. Lady Randolph
Churchill, the widow of Lord Randolph
Churchill, third son of the seventh duke,
was Jennie Jerome, the daughter of Leon
ard Jerome, of New York. Everybody
knows that the present mistress of Blen-
helm is Consuelo Vanderbilt. The dowager
Duchess of Marlborough was Lily Warren
Price, daughter of Commodore Cicero
Price, of the United States navy. When the
late duke married her she was the beau
tiful widow of Louis Hammersley. The
ninth duke, although he has American
wife, has no American blood in his veins,
for his mother was Hamilton. the Lady
Albertha Frances Anne, sixth daughter of
the first Duke of Abercorn. This lady was
divorced from her ducal spouse five years
before the latters marriage with Mrs.
Hammersley. Charles Richard John is the
only son of the eighth dukes first mar
riage, and it is said that most of his char
acter was inherited from the Hamiltons
through his mother.
1t is said that his grace is very fond of
Lady Randolph Churchilrs dashing son,
Winston, and that these two have been
most intimate friends since youth The
lieutenant is four years younger than his
cousin, and might become the posessor OF
the title and headship of the great family
in certain circumstances. Young John
Churchill. who is only twenty, and who will
accompany the duke to the war in the hope
of doing something worthy of the first
john for whom he was named, is also
beloved favorite with the Lord sof Blen-
helm. The duke is twenty-nine years old.
THE BURDETT-COUTTSE
The fact that Baroness Burdett-
Coutts is going to South Africa to join her
husband recalls her marriage to an Ameri-
can, which created sensation in England
in 1881 and caused the temporary exclusion
of the Baroness from that sancta sancto-
rum of the English aristocracy, the court
circle Oddly enough, neither Marlborough
nor Burdett-Coutts are native born
Britons. The Duke first saw the light of
day at Simla, India, while Burdett-Coutts
was born in Plymouth, Mass. Burdett-
Couttss voluntary appearance at the scene
of war to fight for his adopted country is
entirely In accordance with the well-known
patriotic policy of the Baroness. who has
never shirked to contribute from her pri-
vate funds when England called upon the
richer classes for contributions to her war
chest. The Baroness is especially inter-
csted in Cape Town. as the bishopric of
that diocese was one of three colonial
bishoprics each OF which she endowed with
gift of S250.0O0.
Angela Georgina Bartlett -Burdett-Coutts.
the youngest daughter of the late Sir Fran
els Burdett was born in 1914, and in 1881,
on the death of her stepmother. the Ouch
ess of st. Adams, succeeded to the vast
banking interests and immense wealth of
her maternal grandfather, Thomas Coutts,
the greatest English banker of the first
quarter of the nineteenth century. With
her grandfather's wealth the Baroness as
sumed his name by royal license, and for
over sixty years the hyphenated surname
of Burdett-Coutts has represented in Eng
land charity and benevolence. Lady Bur-
dett-Coutts has endowed bishoprics. built
churches and schools, reform houses for
erring girls and model tenements for the
laboring classes. She has relieved distress
at home and abroad with Aladdin-like
prodigality, and at the time OF the Russian
invasion of the Sultan's dominions in 1877
she instituted the Turkish compassionate
fund and sent her husband to Constantine
ple with $4,000 &c distribute among the
Turkish peasantry, who were fleeing from
| their homes in the face of starvation and
possible death In recognition or her great
| and iudicious benevolence Queen Victoria
created Miss Burdett-Coutts a Baroness,
and following on this honor she was pre-
sented with the freedom of tie city OF Lon
don, the first time on record that female
was ever admitted to that privilege by pre-
| sentation.
ROMANTIC MARRIAGE.
Lady Burdett-Coutts's romantic mar
riage. owing TO the disparity between the
| ages of herself and her husband-she was