The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-07
While Her Sons Live in Great
Luxury
LADY GRArS HEROIC SELF.SACRIF|CE
Gave All Her Money to Educate Her
Children While She Lived
In Want.

CHICAGO, Feb. I'm want and
penniless, far from the scene of her
social triumphs, Lady Florence Dunlevy
Duncan Grey, wife of Lord Grey
formerly secretary of the English en-
bassy at Paris and member of the
Canadian government, whose daughter
is now connected with the royal house
hold and whose two sons are at Oxford
lies dead in Chicago. In the plain
commonplace statement of the
coroner's office, Died, Mrs. Fannie
Grey, at 54S6 Ridgewood court" is
hidden romantic story whose paral-
lei is seldom found outside the realm
of fiction.
Through her self-sacrifice in giving
the bulk of her income to the education
of her children, Florence, now being
a member of the queens own house
hold, Alfred, who will assume the an
cient title next year, and Edward, I,
younger brother, she has hidden ner-
self for the past ten years in poverty,
which did not wound her pride.
Retired to America.
Deserted by her husband after fifteen
years of married life, Lady Gray told
ner English friends she would retire
to her Alabama estates while her chill
dren were being educated, in order to
forget her husband
Instead of so doing, she arranged
that all but few dollars of her income
be sent to her children for their edu-
cation, while she lived in a shabby lit
tie fiat in Hyde Park and attempted to
live by what means she could earn by
her pen.
This was so precarious a source of
income that for days at time, so her
friends say, ner only food was few
handsful of oatmeal. At the same
time her daughter Florence was lead
ing the life of a court attache a.
Windsor, while her sons were leading
the life of English noblemen at Oxford.
At the time of her final separation
from her husband, several weeks ago,
a scandal which reached the length and
breadth of the British Empire occur
red. Forcefully Selling mis- daughter,
Florence, Lord Grey took her to India,
where at the time he was connected
with the imperial government.
Rushing her into the interior Of the
then trackless India, Florence was held
captive by her father. Her mother,
who had made a heroic legal fight to
retain the custody of the child, followed
on the next steamer. Although practi-
callly penniless, she traced her daugh-
ter to her prison, and after a series of
adventures, which seem incredible, kid
mapped her and escaped with the chill
to France.
Arriving in Paris few hours ahead
of her angry husband, Lady Grey placed
her daughter in what proved to be a
safe haven. the convent of the Assump-
ton. Although Lord Grey made power
full attempts to regain possession of mis-
daughter through the intervention of
friends, who had just began to realize
the extent of the persecution to which
Lady Grey mad been subjected, the
daughter was left in peace in the in
stitution.
Soon after this a divorce was OBJ
tanned and Lady Grey retired to Chi
cago. Her two sons, concerning whose
custody the father seemed to take lit
tie interest, were entered at Elton, and
later oxford, where they are now.
Telling ner friends she intended to
hide herself in America, Lady Grey
came to Chicago Since she has been
in the city she has led life of abject
poverty.
Lady Grey came of an aristocratic
Baltimore family of the name of Dun
levy An unmarried sister of Lady
Grey has won fame in New York as all
artist