New-York tribune., 1905-02-15
,r11rARNEY,s NEW LORD.

-ha new Earl OF Kenmare. having married the
,zo, Elizabeth Barring. is brother-ir-law OF the
Ezon Hugo Barring. representative IN this country
= re 4arnoas English banking house that bears
-. -en,e and who makes his home in New-fork
-+ts- trotber Of the new Countess OF kenmare is
s--5ea 10 The daughter Of the late Pierre Lorll-
,g-s who after the dissolution of her marriage
I44 r sufern Taller. Of New-Hork. became the
rife OF Cecil Barring, next heir TO Tie earioofn Ok
his brother. LORD Revelstoke.
- Kenroare is tall and graceful. perhaps more
-lesssnt looking than beautiful She cares more
to- The country than for London and has until
NV made her home at Killarney Houss in Ireland
z1s- great interest in life seems 10 be the Iurlher
enoe Of Irish Industries. and she has estaohshed d
s-,i,ure faoau.sg in Kerry. whi-a is very success
81 s,6 where beautiful and artistic articles are
ssvignsd and executes. Her husband, Lord ken
-nsra has until now filed the Office of Master OF
fbs Horse TO ths Vsceroy of Ireland and oistln-
risbsd himself at the time Of the collapse OF the
house Of Barring. some ten or fifteen years ago, by
coming forward voluntarily and surrendering to the
uuuidators the entire amount OF his wife's large
dowry sn action ali the more creditable in view
Of the fact that he was not a rich man AS every
one knows the liquidation. though ii took num-
Der Of years. eventually resulted in the payment in
full Of sl the obligations OF the firm by means of
the assets SO that Lord and Lady Kenmare ulti-
rnstey received their money back, which does not
however. in any way diminish the merit OF the
sacrifice which they had offered TO make for the
sake Of the name of Barring.
Killarney House is sfngularly beautiful place Of
relatively modern construction. looking on TO the
exquisite lake OF Killarney. and being the repro
duction in red brick Of an old Elizabethan man
sion Its feature perhaps is the private chapel OF
the lste Lord Kennare's wife, q convert to the
Roman Catholic Church She had determined that
this chapel should be perfect OF its kind and being
OF exquisite proportions. with an altar of trans
parent onyx the walls inlaid with Italian paint
ings its silver csndIesticks inorusted with coral
and its rare old vestments it is certainly gem OF
ecclesiastical art Another feature OF the house
the beauty of the door handles. the majority Of
which formed OF richly chased and wonderfully
enarneIed watch cases. while the great dining room
IS tapesuied with o.d Spanish embossed leather
In fact. The late Lord Kenmare seriously crippled
his resources in building Killarney House.
Although the latter is modern yet the gardens
are old, the grand yew hedge surrounding the old
bowling green being the finest il ireland or Great
Britain, and having been often vaunted by poets.
Indeed. the lands have been in the possession OF
the Browne family. of which Lord Kenmare is the
head, since the days Of Queen Elizabeth Under
nsr father Henry VIII, the Brownies had their seat
al Totteridge. in Hertfordshre and at Croft. in
Lincolnshire But in 1888 Queen Elizabeth appoint
ed Sir Valentine Browne surveyor OF escheated
lands in Ireland. Five years later he purchased
from Donald. Earl Of Glencare. lands and manors
IN the counties OF Kerry and of Cork. and obtained
from Queen Elizabeth. who very fond of him.
grant of al the estates of Lord Glencare on the
latter dying without issue. For time all these
great landed possessions OF the Brownies were
conhscated. owing TO their loyalty to King James
II and 10 the Stuart, that is to say, the Jacobite
cause. and IL was not until the end OF the eish-
tenth century that the peerages which they now
hold. namely the earldom and the barony Of Ken
mare and the viscounty of CastIerosse We're con-
frned TO them by King George III.
The late Lord Kennare a very handsome
and stately Tnaa. who. Lord Chamberlain as
sisted in the presentation of many American wom-
en- 70 tbs lape Queen Victoria. and OF many
American men 70 King Edward when Prince of
Wales, at the St James.s Palace Ievees. His son
and heir has inherited his good looks though, ac-
eoroing 70 all accounts. these have been somewhat
impaired by a bad accident with which he met
while cut hunting the other day. when he was not
only thrown. but was kicked in the face