New-York tribune., 1908-06-15

TIE son OF ENGLAND'S PREMIER PEER
Is tie Duke of Norfolk is the premier peer. the
--ere- duke and the premier earl Of the British
rsslrn as well as hereditary earl marshal and
--ssl5er- o. ire College Of Eeralds and OF the
Court Of Chivalry of England. the birth OF son
ar he.r 70 his many honors and dignities- and 10
his vast estates matter calling for mention in
these columns. Il is the first OF the duke
By his former marriage he had a boy. who died
sx wears aEo but who was both mentally and
physically afflicted 10 pitifu1 degree. being deaf.
dumb and blind. as well imbecile In spite OF
MS his father was devoted TO him. and when
holding government Office, which made necessary
rs being IN London would lease place IN the sub
urbs <o- ms boy, so as be able to spend hour
x1th hin every day. Many and many were the
rlE-traEes which the duke, who is e devout
Catholic undertook 10 Lourdes and 10 the Holy
Land the hope Of obtaining from Providence
s-e alteration Of the lads condition But il was
& II vain. and when the young fellow died in his
rz-rv-chird year the duke gave him an entirely
mite funeral. Just they do TO infants. some
Ehst pathetic Indication that young Lord Arundel,
though he attained manhood IN years, had never
theless remained ali other respects an innocent
child
T7-o wears atrerward namely. IN 1sH the duke
married MS second wife the Hon. GVrendolyn
Constable Maxwell. elder daughter and hetress Of
ne seventeenth Lord Herrles- The duchess gave
birth 70 e s1r1 IN 1as. who. though debarred from
the succession Of her fathers peersges. would have
inherited through her mother the bsrony OF Her
ries and would have become e peeress in her own
right Her prospects in this respect are. however.
terminated through the birth Of her little brother
al Arundel Castle On June / The boy, who was
cn-1stensd OF the following day by Father Bernard
vaughan brother Of the cardinal OF that name
receiving the names OF Bernard Msrmaduke, the
former being one of the names OF his godfather and
uncle Lord Edmund Talbot. the only brother Of the
duke
Cu-iously enough. the child was born on the birth
DAY O. LORD Edmund who had until the boys birth
beer regarded as heir presumptive 70 the dukedorn
aad Eo, being very rch il his own right and having
Z grown W son IS now likely TO receive a peerase
Of hs ov- from the crown. His wealth comes TO
hin from the seventeenth ard last Catholic Earl Of
SHREWSBURY, who, dying unmarried. and having
succeeded 70 dsentaiing most OF his immense prop
e-ry, bedueathed il 10 Lord Edmund Howard
younger sen Of MS kinsulan. the fourteenth Duke
Of Norfolk. sttpuIatins that Lord Edmund. who
was then z mere boy, should adopt the name and
the arms OF Talbot IN lieu OF those OF Howard
Tie Earidorn of Shrewsbury went 70 another dis
tsrt k-lsrlsn. the Thtrd Earl of Talbot Prot
estsuL VINO thus became eighteenth Earl OF
Shrewsbury. and who once Instituted regal pro
csedings for the restoration the earidom OF the
property alienated 70 Lord Edmund Talbot The
sEit unsuccessful
LORD Ednund is q familiar figure in Parliament,
having sal during many years in. the House OF
Commons for Chichester He is q soldier oy pro
lesson, and distinguished himself as a cavalry
ofce- II the Boer war under General Sir John
Erench. Between himself and his brother the
Closes and most atfectionate relations have always
existed ana that he has given evidence Of no
dEappo.-r-e1t in the birth Of the little Earl of
Arun6el. which depr1ves him OF the succession 70
lis brothers hoaors, is perhaps best shown by the
fact that ne ozciated as the chlds sponsor al its
Christening