The times., 1901-05-26
PEFRAGEs OF ENGLAND.
Romance TinginE the Origin of
Many of Them.
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! There are few pages in fiction more re-
! markable or fascinating than the stories
: OF the origin of some OF the British peer
ages, many OF which trace their descent
/ from romantic sources, ranging from a
/ loye-ron:ance TO lottery.
I A century or so ago there was living IN
| Dublin Luke White, dealer in second
/ hand books and keeper OF a lottery ONCE.
/ One day, so the story runs, on looking
! through a secondhand book that had re-
] Gently come into his possession ne touhd
[ between two of its leaves a lottery ticket.
/ which he was wise enough not 10 part
with.
! As luck would have it. the ticket won a
very valuable prize, which at once placed
/ its owner in position OF ahiuence Ihres
| OF his sons became army colonies ana
members Of Parliament. and the youngeSt
of them was created Baron Annaly IN 1868,
a pecrage which is held today by captain
in the Scots Guards, who, like his for
tunate ancestor, bears the lucky name
ANY one who CHANGED to be passing at
the time over London Bridge one day IN
| the seventeenth century might have wit
messed a gallant deed performed by a
young apprentice. A young >.dy had
fallen into the river, and was in immi-
nent danger Of drowning, when she was
rescued by a youth, who braYely plunged
into the river and with difficulty brought
her unconscious to the shore.
The gallant young rescuer was Edward
Osborne apprentice 10 a worthy draper on
London Bridge, and the rescued girl was
the daughter and heiress of his employer.
Sucb a romantic episode could have but
one appropriate issue. Edward Osborne
married the Girl he had saved from Geatn'
succeeded 70 her fathers wealth and buSi-
ness. and founded the noble family OF
which George Godolphin Osborne, Duke or
Leeds. Marquis Earl Ntscount ana Bar
on, is the present head.
one evening in the early years Of the
second George, when a certain beautiful
and wealthy young lady was being carried
in her sedan chair to Drury Lane Theatre,
Gh VA wifi sudden attack
faintness. Fortunately at the moment
( her chair was stopped opposite the shep
/ of one Hugh SmithsOn an apothecary, into
which the fatnting heiress was carried.
The courteous nintStrauonS OF the
young chemist, together with his hand
1 some exterior, made such favorable
impression on his patient that she sought
another opportunity of seeing hlm, ana
! thus commenced an intimacy which end
( ed in their marriage in 1740.
To this romantic incident, 1t is sad, the
! Dukes Of Northumberland owe thet- titles
! and vast estates the first OF their many
/ titles of peerage eating some nine years
( later than this singular ALLIANCE.
More than thirty years after this ro-
nance OF Drury Lane the first stone OF
the family fortune of the Earls of Eldon
4 WAS laid when John Scott, the young
! Newcastle student, took IL. into MS head
/ to elope with Miss SurteeS, the rich bank
| ers daughter, and race with her over the
border In defiance of pursuing parent
That runaway journey was really the
I IlTSl stage OLl ltiS NcJ ~ Lie cV4s'hNA>i
and to the ranks of the baron, viscOunt-
| and call, which are borne today by his
| descendant, the third earl who, like his
romantic progenitor bears she name OF
John Scott.
| 1t was a trivial incident that won a
peerage for Lord Lyndhurst, one of the
{ greatest of our lord chancellors. In
| spite of his uncommon gifts and great
/ university reputation, he had been called
TO the bar seven years before a single
| brief came his way. He was on the point
! of abandoning his profession in despair
! when, while sitting in court one DAY, one
I of the counsel engaged in a case was
| taken seriously I'll, and the case seemed
/ likely to collapse.
| This was John Singleton Copley's oppor-
tuniJy. To the relief OF the court and
! the plaintiffs solicitor he volunteered tC
| take the departed cOunsels place, and
i conducted the case so brilliantly that he
not only secured a verdict, but achieved
by one leap a reputation which soon plac-
! ed him on the right road to the wOOlsack
| More than two centuries ago Smith
field hOsier, called Rider, had clever soI
| when he was anxious TO put into the
church, while the boy was resolute TO be
/ q lawyer. SO ObstIuately was the point
| contested between father and son that il
! began to seem probable that the boy
/ would have become a hosier like his
! father in default of a solution.
| Fortunately, the matter was submitted
for final settlement to an old friend oil
the family, who pumped in favor Of thi
law; and thus the boy was started on
career which led TO the highest seat OF
the bench and to the foundation Of th'
fortunes OF the Ryders, Earls Of Har
I ruWby.