New-York tribune., 1904-10-21
lord OF NEWSrEAD ABBEY
radv Eden Of Maryland, N. Il,
Loses Her JesceIs.

,-.,.-.s slr EsrbsEt Chermssde. who has Just re-
.,s the lucrative Office of Governor OF Queens-
- ma who has started for England by way OF
=. T-Bited States. Is the owner, through his wife
!. ,,su-stsad Abbey. 60 famous the home OF the
o.. r.ord Byron. and Il figures in many OF the lat
- verses notably IN ''Childe Harold"
',.ut "a a monastery by King Henry H. in expia-
=. az the murder OF ST. Thomas Beckett. Arch
ss,hop Of Canterbury. IL has. according TO local
-,ion been doubly bur6snsd by curse. For
. ,sly was Il taken by force at the time OF
- Information from Its monastic owners. who
s-abSected 20 the utmost cruelty and savagery.
y. an additional blight brought upon the
- bv an act OF desecratiOR perpetrated by the
sgs ana wicked" Lord Byron. This peer hap
- lu the course OF some building operations to
-,s upon the remains OF OF the oldtime ab-
- AZ NeNsiead. He permitted the bones to be
,.,Dterred but had she skill mounted in silver and
Inverted into q drinking cup. which he used for
.orousine He scOned al the idea Of any misfort-
,5,s resulting thereSrom bat lived TO his son
.,s grandson die IN quick succession by violence.
wVns IN this way that the abbey passed into tho
h.nss Of the poet distant relative. who. every
one knows died without male issue. leaving only
saughssr while the nsw owner OF the abbey the
..vsuth Lord Byron. meeting with financial re-
-,srses. cold the place TO Colonel wildman- The
lsttsr was likewise pursued by the fate which had
followed 50 resatlsssy In the steps OF the previous
ognsrg o. the abbey. For he lost his son. and was
also cvertaken with other Eevorses, which led him
dispose OF the place 10 the late N'llaFn FREEZER
lex Webb
M webb, shortly after becoming owner OF the
abbey discovered By mere chance in a second hand
br4c-a-brao shop IN Bedford-st-. Covent Garden,
ths Frewsoms drinking bowl Of the fifth Lord
Byron-nsznely. the silver mounted skull OF the
ola abbot he at once purchased Il. and caused 1t
70 be TeverentIy reiRterred within the abbey pre-
cinctE Il was after g'ns that his son was born
but 90 afraid was he lest any harm should befall
the son that he declined to leave him Newstead
Abbey, making other generous provisions for him.
but bequesthng the place - his daughter, married
n General Sir Herbert cherTnside-
The general not long after HIS marriage was ap-
,o,n,ed Governor OF Queensland But the climate
~ Australia did not agree with his wife. and Lady
t,he-1nside after having endeavored in vain to be-
come aocllnatzed at Brisbane, was forced to re-
turn home 20 England an invalid, and as the
rs,,sicians held out no hope OF her recovery Sir
Herbert whose term Of once as Governor had still
three years TO run determined 10 resign and 20 re-
turn home, where Il IS probable that he Will receive
some military employment; Tor he Is one Of the
clsveTest men in the British army and possesses
unrivsnsd knowledge not only Of the Turkish
Arabic languages. but likewise q the Ottoman
Empire, acquired during twenty consecutive years
spent as consul general IN Armenia, military at
-ache at Constantinople and British Commissioner
in syria. Crete, &acsdonia ana Albania.
one OF the features OF Newgtesd Abbey Is the
Ynagnsacert tomb In which BoafsWain. the fayorite
dog Of the poet Lord Byron. Is buried. The tomb
had been built By the peer Tor his own remains;
but When bis faithful dog that 'phosnix Of canine
ousdrupeds' and that pOssessor OF all the virtues
of nan without his Wees" died On November ls
ls his griefstTicken master and friend gave direo
lions that he SIS be buried n the tomb waiting
for myself" Sir Herbert and Lady Chermside have
no children and Just what disposal they viii make OF
the place in the event Of their death It Is difficult
10 state. The present Lord Byron certainly has no
means OF purchasing Il even II he we're anxious to
do &C; Cor only few years have elapsed since LIS
somewhat sensational appearance IN the bank
ruptcy court He IS only very remotely related to
the poet Lord Byron whose sole child, his daughter
Ada married Lord Lovelace and became the
mother OF Lady Ann Blunt and Of the present Earl
OF LoVelace-