The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-12
.KHEDIVE
OF EGYPT
Abbds Helmi II. is Now OIL a
Visit to Great Britain.
is A JOLLY.LOOKlNG MAN
khedive is Staying With Sir Ernest Gas
sell, the Great Financier-Some-
thing About the New Peers
of the Realm.
is A JOLLY.LOOKING MAN
BY PAUL LAM BETH.
Special Gable to The Times-Dispatch.
Copyright, leO3.)

LONDON. July n.-Abbas Helml H..
Khedive OF Egypt, is now staying Gun
omcially) in London, and fortunately his
stay is being favored with bright, sunny
weather. which was not expected.
He made his first public appearance at
the Kings birthday parade. and seemed
delighted with the martial appearance
and machine-like marching of the guards.
His Majesty is a jolly-lookng young
man, with a swarthy, handsome face,
adorned with a silky black moustache.
His manners in society are charming
and animated, for he was educated In
Vienna, and has a good knowledge or the
principal European languages.
At home his domestic life is said to be
more like that OF a European gentleman
than of an Eastern potetate.
He has but one wife, with whom his re-
lations are very happy. Besides being
keen student, Abbas Helmi is an en-
thusiastic lover of music and Is an &C
complished pianist.
The Khedive Is staying at the house
OF Sir Ernest Cassel the great fnancler,
who has practically financed Egypt.
The best known of the four newly Gre
ated peers in the list of birthday honors
ia Sir Edward Lawson, proprietor OF the
Daily telegraph. "hich Papet 10 pe.iapa
the only one IN LONDON Whlcn mas ialtn-
fully and consistently supported the pres
ent Tory Government throughout It's ca
reer.
Sir Edward who assumed ms u.'e'e
name of Lawson by royal license. his own
being Levy, is sixty years old.
During his control Of the a1tairs OIL the
Telegraph he has unoertake, n, iiun
OF enterprises in the exploration line.
~, q research eX-
petition to Assyria. and presented the re-
suits to the British Museum.
He also helped In %d1spatchns n. NJ
Stanley on his greas journey throusn
Central Africa In lSI4-I, Wnerl me ne ooiiso
was discovered.
Sir Edward owns a peautliul i D.,ai.,a.
estate known as Hal Barn. ~ -, nue antar.
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tanned the Fang.
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W ~, os not originally his own.
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- No ssNl,is grandfather's brother-in- law,
7 ord Armstrong. the gun manufacturer,
whose lhei, he became
IJe Is forty wears old and married IN
| 1850 the daughter of the late General
Sir John Adye.
| He occupies as his country seat tne
late Lord Armstrong; beautiful place at
Rothbury. Northumberland' "h tls .me
early experiments which led 10 the it'anu
facture of the famous 9Arll's.ioii Q q w. -,
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owns the great ensll' 'Sii ~ -Twna and
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