New-York tribune., 1906-05-07
LADY TEMPLETowNs NEWSPAPER ALL
ANCE"

LADY TEMPLETOWN'S NEWSPAPER ALL
ANCE"
Lady Templetown is as active in Unionist politics
as her husband, and while she has never gone so
far as to deliver platform speeches, she is the
founder Of the so-caed ulster Newspaper AL
LANCE" which sends out thousands upon thousands
Of newspapers daily. and gratuitously. explaining
and champoning Cnionist ideas There is probably
not a newspaper editor in this country who has not
received some OF these missves from her News
paper Alliance"
Upton Castle, where Lord and Lady Templetovn
make their home, is heavy old pile that in olden
times was occupied as a fortress by the Knights
Templar But the inhospitabe looking round
towers without convey only a faint idea OF the
luxury within. The place Is crowded with art
treasures. and some OF the finest paintings of Sir
John Lawrence adorn the walls.
Let me add that neither Lord nor Lady Temple
town is responsible for the strict rule according to
which no Roman Catholic is permitted to settle on
the Upton Castle estate. The rule forms part and
parcel OF the entail by the terms Of which they
hold the estate. and dates from the days Of King
William III and Of the Battle OF the Boyne, when,
owing to the disgrace brought upon a woman of
the house of Upton by Roman Catholic noble
man, provision was made by the members that for
all time Roman Catholics should be barred from
occupying any land on the Upton Castle property
This does not, however, prevent Lord and Lady
Templetown from taking a very active interest in
the welfare of Roman Catholic peasantry and In
Roman Catholic interests outside Of the borders Of
their estate
LORD CHARLEss AMERICAN FOREBEARs.
Lord Charles Kennedy. who arrived in this coun-
try on the Carmania, Wednesday last, for
prolonged stay. is younger son Of the Marquis OF
Afsa, and a brother. therefore. Of that Earl of
CassIIiP who living in America at the time
of the outbreak Of the Boer war. in which he sub
sequently took part officer Of the Royal Scots
Fusiliers. 1t may be remembered that there was
a good deal Of confusion in connection with the
pronunciation of his which is spoken as if
It were "Cassels." The Kennedys, OF whom the Mar
quis Of Ailss Is the chieftain. are not rich; but
what they lack in wealth they make up in lineage
for the founder OF their family was Sir John Ken
nedy, who gave his Gilbert in 1857, as one OF
the hostages TO the English for the liberation of
King David II OF Scotland. David. third Lord Ken
nedY and first Earl Of Cassils. killed by the
side Of King James ~ at the Battle of Flodden
Field. His grandson. the third Earl of Cassillis
was one the Scotch peers delegated to represent
Scotland at the marriage of Mary Queen Of Scots
with King Francis Of France. and succumbed. with
his four fellow deputies Of the Scotch peerage 20
poison administered to them by the dignitaries OF
the French court, where they had given great
offence by the somewhat brusque manner In which
they had declined to consent to the proposal made
for the succession OF Mary Stuarts husband TO the
Scotch Crown.
LORD Charles Kennedy, in addition to this an
cient Scottish lineage has likewise American
cestry. Shortly before the outbreak Of the War of
independence. Archibald Kennedy Collector
of the Port of New York. where he married. first
of all, a Miss Schuyler, of New Jersey, and af
terward Ann. the daughter Of John Watts. OF
New York Through the death of his cousin he
succeeded to the honors and estates eleventh
Earl Of Cassillis and It is from him that the
present Marquis of Ailsa and Lord Charles Ken
uedy are descended in the direct male line.
This eleventh Earl OF Cassls, who had been
Collector of the Port of New York had numerous
family HIS eldest became first Marquis OF
Ailsa. and his third son, Robert married Jane
Macomb daughter OF General Alexander Macomb.
of the United States Army. Lord Charles Kennedy
is therefore likely 20 hpd number OF people in
this country who II they not near relatives. can
az least claim ties OF klnshp with him.
The ancestral home OF Lord Charles. or rather OF
his father IS Culzoan Castle pronounced Culcan)
on the Ayrshire coast there the present marquis
lives with his second wife. the stepmother of Lord
Charles The present merchioness was the daugh-
ter Of Scotch gardener. who had gone out 70
India 20 give technical advice as 20 the manage
ment Of tea plantation. He died suddenly there.
and his orphan daughter was on her way home as
a second class passenger when she attracted the
attention and the sympathy Of the marquis and
make her his wife. The marriage has turned out
singuiarly happy
EARLs HEIR MURDERED IN AMERICA
During the proceedings which have lately been
taken In court in England by Lord Egmont in re-
lation 20 the expenditure OF considerable sums Of
money obtained by sale OF the entailed property.
mention was made OF the fact that the earl's only
brother and heir was living IN childiess marriage
In South Africa; that the next heir In the line OF
succession was Spencer Perceval. a man OF con-