New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-04
A FENIAN PEERLESS.
0,rotion Of MarchionesS of Queens
bervv TO the Fcnian Cause.

,,.-isv peeress' Is the epitaph that should be
- m, the tombstone % the old Marchiouess
= C.eref,erry. who. a. the age q nearly eighty.
o - - gathered 20 her rest after a slrgulariy
- and most oyentf-l Nfc, which frst attracted
- --+ertion Of society when, as young girl.
- S,,ofter OF General Sir Robert Clayton, she
.' %. runaway marriage with the seventh Mar
y, - Ousens5erry in the ola fashioned manner.
-. u 20 say, IN q postchase and four. her union
-, among tie very last 20 be performed by t-lF
.-,sre smith at Gretna Green.
=. v-as a most eccentric old lady and Is On
- IS having been so devoted 10 the Fenian
-. .Ast she subsidized q Feuian newspaper Tor
-. years lssished large sums OF money upon
- 5.r5 League. and when Talbot, the detective
- t-sr~rrer was assassiuated made a handsome
.-io-v donation to the family OF The murderer
= -. al her approval her equally eccentric
y 80 LADY Florence Dixie, presenting 8 sum
-. as large 10 she widow and family OF has
sirllm. - s..,,-.-.- ,.,,-.
-. & convert 10 Catholicism, and took The VOWS
= ,5cDtsd the rarb Of Sister OF Mercy. one OF
= sous. LORD Archibald Douglas. g. q Catholic
=. Another Of her daughters, Lady Gertrude
-. married jourreymRn baker OF the name
500 one Of her sons. Lord Francis Douglas.
~, tis lie by q fan from precipice while de-
-, fon the hlatterhorn. IN the Swiss Alps:
- son Lord James. committed suicide, while
- ,lsest son The late Marquis OF Queensherry,
-rgfcsEcl alue4eAs anu a. BUN N'Ae---oe ---
,.rur A seat among the representative peers q
s-.gand al HolyrOod.
- Florenoe Dixie. her daughter. is 80 re-
- 81 couuectlon with her proves at foot
II sr5 cricket. as q hunter OF big game in the
-.scan Rockies. IN india and "a Africa. an eN-
- ,n Patagonia. and a relentless Zoe Of the
,..,oB,lisi movement in ireland that 81 would be
-,-euous 20 refer 10 her more extensively here
- .,,otlrted for the 81 viii ard rigor OF the lac
- M sttrihutiug Il 10 a quarrel which she had
- - the Lord Chamberlatn's officials al BUCK
-, Palace when she attempted 10 enter TIE
=, -rssence al a drawing room without the
-. and veil which are de rigueuer. ana which
q, s.as-ed 70 be impossible 10 wear owing 20 The
ss-r--ss OF her hair.
-. s.es the eccont-icity OF old LADY Queens
...y, 80 have restricted Itself 10 her tmrne-
- stnsren. II has extended 10 her grandchil-
- veU OF Lord Alfred Douglas. who is al
-. a. Wei known n this country Us IN England
- -.s.sn Of his III advised friendship with oscar
uus, n is unnecessary 10 speak. His sister. Lacy
r5I,b douglas. married 81 George Lare Fox Pitt
-, IKE herself is 8 professed Buddhist The
,.,ssrt ro-a CueensbeTry. her brother, has just
- sazetted again for the second or third time
!, bsr,zrupt while her eldest brother. Lord
7,.,-,,ou-r was killed in q rather mysterious
-rsu,er while out shooting by an accidental ois-
rfg-re q, his gun IN ideutically The same fashion
Is rs Grandfather. the seventh Marquis
la, death OF the old Marchoness cannot fan 10
.e,ret financially the present head OF the family
i've tbe e1tsiee estates VIII no longer be charged
4b the large io,ntu1e which has been paid 10 her
,ssrefron ever since the death OF her husband IN
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