New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-21
NEW LORD NoRrHBRooK,s ROMANCE.

There have been many matrimonial alliances
between the great London house of Barring and the
daughters of Uncle Sam during the last hundred
years that the death Of old Lord Northbrook and
the succession of his only Viscount Barring 10
his earldom and estates, well to the chief
tainship of the family, cannot but excite a GER
tain amount Of interest this side Of the water
The new Lord Northbrook is a tall, cookbook
ing man, who was the hero of a rather sensational
romance number of years ago. He was staying
at Cairo a visit to his cousins. Lord and Lady
Cromer when, to their dsmay, he became infatu-
ated there with the wife Of a Scotch laird, Ian
Murray Grant. of Glenmoriston. in Inverness shire
divorce suit ensued. On the very day that the
decree OF divorce made absolute Lord Barring
married Mrs. Grant at Paris. But she had not
borne the title of vscountess for more than TWEEN
ty-four hours when she struck down bv an
attack of typhoid fever to which she succunbed
ten days later.
Lord Barring was supported at the grave Of his
wife by his father. the late Earl NorthbrooR and
by his sister, then unmarried ana now Lady Emma
Crchton the Barings having always been noted for
their cannish disposition stick to one another
when in trouble. It IS this, indeed that renders
them so great n social power not merely in hnan-
cal circles but also in politics. and especially in
society. Indeed they virtually control several Of
the best London clubs.
a number Of years later Lord Barring married
second time, his wife being Lady Abercrombie
widow OF Sir Robert Abercromble the latter a
here al the time Of the Centennial Exhibit
ton in 1876. He chief Of the great Scotch clan
OF Abercrombe. and descended from that Sir Alex
/ ander Abercromble who took such prominent part
on the side OF Oliver Cromwell against King
Charles I. and who was the first barone Of the So
called Nova Scotia baronets. These Nova Scotia
baronets do not bear the bloody hand" upon their
| escutcheons do ordinary bsronets. and they
were originally created for the purpose Of pronot
Ing the colonization Of Nova Scotia. Fifteen thou
sand dollars paid for the honor and in return
TIE payer received a patent of baronetcy and a
grant Of land IN England's transatlantic colonies
The present head Of tho Abercrombie clan is young
| Sir George Abercrombie stepson Of the new Lord
NorthbrooA
The Lazy Nprthbrook is very pretty wom-
an, tall and graceful, With cloud OF pale golden
hair, and is by birth member Of that old Irish
house of Coote which has so many old Colonial
associations with this country one Of its members
in particular. the Earl Of Bellamont having
achieved much fame a reform Governor Of New
York. where a monument is now being erected over
his tomb in old Trinity churchyar6.
Whereas the late Lord Northbrook was a states
man par excellence, and had served term as Vice
roy Of India. besides having repeatedly held Cab
met office, the earl is above anything else a
soldier and traveller. and has actual share in
the management Of the great banking house which
constituted the foundation Of the family fortunes
a foundation Ia which American dollars played a
notable role
YANKEE DOLLARS FOUND Barring FORTUNE
The Earrings are of German origin, Franz Barring.
the original ancestor. having been minister Of
the Lutheran Church at Bremen at the beginning
Of the eighteenth century It was his SON Francis,
who euigrated 10 England, secured naturaIlzat ton
Engshman, married English woman
acquired fortune in the wool trade and entered
Parliament where he represented the city Of
Exeter for nearly quarter Of century. His son
Francis was chairman of the East india Company
during those fatefuI years when the great Sultan
IlppOO o MysoFe was being conquered and VII
Sir Arthur Wellesley. afterward Duke of yelling
ton. was winning his spurs by adding to the British
Empire in Hindoostan.
The real founder Of the family fortune however
was Alexander Barring, second san OF Sir Francis
and he may be said to have been Tx first English