New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-05
HE NET THE PUPS.
Why an american Heiress Tilted the
Late Lord Hordscicke.

While in France for the first time in her history
an agent de change (Anslice, stock broker) has
Just become Cabinet Minister. succeeding General
Andre at the head OF the War Department, the
Balfour administration, in England has lost the
only of its members who at one and the
time a fulfedged stock broker and Under
Secretary of State at the War Department by the
death OF Lord Hardwicke
The stockbroking firm to which the earl belonged
WAS that OF Basil Montgomery Co, and, in ad
diton this. he likewise the chief proprietor
of The Saturday Review" journal which. Of all
the London weekly publications. is the most per-
sistently unfriendly to America. He is succeeded
in his honors and in nothing else by his uncle.
Crinean veteran OF the navy. hitherto known as
Captain the Hon John Manners, r. N, who while
rich is considerably better off than his prede
ces.or Cor the late Lord Hardwicke. when asked
TO resign his partnership in the stockbroking firm
TO which he belonged on being appointed a member
of the administration. declined to do so on the
ground that, through fault OF his own. his earn
ings from the latter his sole means of livei-
hood and source of income and that he could not
afford TO surrender these for sake of political
office that could not under any circumstances prove
of permanent character.
Lord Hardwicke before joining the firm Of Basil
Montgomery & Co., in the City followed many
different cslings in search OF living, having been
in turn a member Of the diplomatic corps. soldier
a salesman OF Egyptian cigarettes wine merchant
and heaven knows what else besides. He was at
moment the point of becoming the husband
a
born widowed Marchioness of Anglesey. the match
being broken off at the last moment in consequence
of pair OF pups. 1t was while Lord Hardwicke.
then only Lord Royston, attached to the en-
bassy at Vienna, In which capital Lady Anglesey
and her niece were at the time staying. Everything
went swimmingIy, and already arrangements were
being discussed for celebrating the marriage at the
embassy chapel. when the following correspondence
took place. Lady Anglesey wrote:
Dear Lord Royston: l am leaving Vienna with
20 he SommeruR o
Perhaps you could be at the railroad station at
sincerely. ~ MARIE ANGLEsEY.
To this invitation, Lord Hardwicke replied with
the following Characteristic misslve:
Dear S Lady hngIesey; Awfuly sorry; cannot no be
have to be at the Western Railroad terminus Vt to
sincerely ROYSTON.
That, OF course, ended the match. For not even
the prospect Of becoming peerless Of the realm
could reconcile the high spirited American girl
TO the idea OF becoming the wife of who on
the eve of marriage thus openly preferred to her
some fox terrier pups.
The Lord Hardwicke. like his predecessor, is
descended. like his nephew and predecessor, from
Simon Yorbe OF Dover who is described as "a
merchant and person Of good landed estates, who
died in 1874" His grandson. Philip Yorke, became
Lord Chief Justice of England and Lord Hard
wicke at the early age Of thrty-four. being pro-
noted three years afterward to the woolsack as
Lord Chancellor and to earldonl.
The financial msfortunes OF tho house which
have resulted IN the alienation Of the family
tates and in the dispersal OF the family treasures
have been partly due to the extravaganza of the
late earls father and grandfather and partly also
TO agricultural depression. The ancestral home
WimpoIe Hall and park. in Cambridgeshre, with
its superb double avenue Of elms three miles long
each tree being several centuries old Is the
possession of Lord Clifden. who, according to the
late Lord Hardwicke and to his friends, secured
the place at about one-quarter its real value by
quietly buying up the mortgages with which 1t was
encountered and then foreclosing.