New-York tribune., 1901-09-23
LADY HENRY'S HOME.
EASTNOR CASTLE is ONE OF THE MANY
BEAUTIFUL ESTATES IN ENGLAND.

Lady Henry Somerset has just announced that
she probably visit the United States early next
year for consultation with temperance workers.
This summer she has turned her beautiful home
Eastnor Castle, into a summer school for temper
work. Fifty young women. members of the
''Y'' branches Of the National British Temperance
Association. have been entertained by her, and
were under her personal instruction in the art of
effective public speaking.
Although not one OF the ancient homes of Eng
land" Eastnor Castle the ancestral home of Lady
Henry Somerset is one OF the most beautiful and
the which it is situated has been in the pos
session OF Lady Henry's family since the sixteenth
century. The former manor house, Castle Ditch
island in lake that lies the NAL
vern Hills, and strongly fortified The present
castle is on hill overlooking the lake, and
built in 1872 by the first Earl Somers, who pos
sessed the property by right of descent from the
Cocks family, The original owners. Lady Henry
Somerset is the eleventh owner of Eastnor in direct
descent from Richard Cocks, whose name is part
Of the family cognomen, Lady Henrys maiden
name having been Lady Isabel Somers-Cocks.
Eastnor Castle is built in the Norman style Of the
First Edwards reign, with round towers at each
corner, a keep rising above them and a great
flight Of stone steps leading up the grand en-
trance.
The whole house is veritable OF antiqui-
Ties. many of which have down through an
cestors while others have been collected in modern
times. Charles Earl Somers. father Of Lady Henry
Somerset. made wonderful collection of medieval
and that now adorns the great en-
trance hall. In 1t thirty-three suits of plate
armor worn by the bodyguard of the Emperor
Charles V. two cap-a-pie tilting suits of futed
armor, and a wooden horse is mounted a
knights cap-a-pie suit of plate armor. chased and
inlaid with gold. with shield bearing the arms
Of the Visconti family The horse wears old en-
broidered velvet trappings and has armor of the
same period head and neck.
In the dining room many portraits of the
Cocks family and those connected with it by mar
riage, from the time of Henry VII 10 the present.
Among these are the Somerses. Eliots and Yorkes
In the drawing the ceiling is adorned with
coats Of arms that show the descent of the Som
erses from the families of Plantagenet, Berkeley,
Russell OF Strensham and Nash. Above the fire.
place is heraldc tracing descent from
Thomas Cocks of Cleeve
Many Of the portraits by famous painters. in
cluding Rembrandt, Eandyck Sir Peter Lely. Sir
Godfrey KnelIer, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Romney.
ana other old masters
In all parts Of the castle superb old tapes
pieces of furniture and bijouterie. Among the
treasures a Greek dating from 800 B. c.,
ana some ancient Etruscan pottery.
IN the octagOn room the walls are hung with
needlework Of the seventeenth century, applique in
S feet by Is feet, tapestries that hung in
Fontainebleau and We're taken from there during
Russian princess into whose possession they had
come They hung in the wall spaces above
apartment does not hold all. and the remaining
panels OF the series placed in the small library,
chimney piece in this room is mirror whose frame
was carved by Grinling Gibbons
deer park, the lake and the whole range of Malvern
Hills In the vicinity are many interesting spots.
Sir John oldcastle hid himself in the days OF the
lcllard persecution