New-York tribune., 1908-03-06


abroad Unless he receives some announcement ne
may OF these days tired of the role that
ne IS now playing and throw in his lot with the
most fanatic Of his coregionists against foreign
and Christian intervention
THIS MARCHIONEss a GAIErY GIRL
Lord Headtort, the way to the United
states is one of those members OF the British peer
age who have sought wife among the Gaiety
girls; that is TO say. among the figurantes and
members of the chorus OF the London Gaety Thea
tre company. The Marchioness of Headfort is an
attractive woman who has in measure secured
admission 10 the county society in Meath. where
she makes her home, through her prowess in the
hunting field. Lord Headfort's career attracted
some attention before he married and settled down
as an Irish territorial magnate In the first p1ace
he was sued Immediately after coming of age bv
the well known the late Sam Lewis on
d note Of Soo000. The marquis admitted in cour,
the authenticity of his signature but put forward
the defence that it obtained from him bv one
Oh bis most constant companions while he was
dFuhb after q luncheon at Princes He likewise
INSISTED that inasmuch he was a minor AT The
time when he signed the note he could not be bets
responsible for 1t, all the more he had received
no consideration and derived pecuniary benefit
from the transaction. This plea was adrni++ed ~,
the court and Lewis was defeated
1hen came q suit for breach Of promise bv
'@IeS slri other than the one who subsequently
became his wife. He led into this entanele-
brother officers. finding him bumptiorls and hiq
headed in his first year in the regiment proceeded
II Is said one evening after 10 administer to
am an old-fashoned spanking, with the object
OF taxing the nonsense out OF him in the rag
sing' fashion customary in the English service
HIS punishment hurt his pride. and with the p,,r
pose OF showing his comrades that they were mis-
taken In setting him down as q callow youth and
that in reality he "a devil of a sport he Of
fered marriage one evening after dinner TO one Of
me cLoruS S1TIs OF the Gaiety promising in the
presence Of numerous witnesses marry her at the
registers office on the following morning. Foru-
nateiy one of the men present took common
sense view Of the situation drove off to the wild
owed Lady Headfort's house. in Wilton Place.
had the raarchioness awakened. and informed her
of heT son ma trlmonial project. The outcome of
this was that when the young lording came home
in hilarious state about 3 a n. his mother
locked him Up II his room, did she consent 10
release him until the afternoon Of the following
GaF. when L was too late for him to keep his ap-
pointmeut az the registers. Fear of rdicule and
the good advice Of his mother friends prevailed
and he made attempt 10 we'd the girl whose
subsequent suit for breach of promise COM
promised fer $4,000. This experience cannot. how
ever, be said 10 have weaned him in any way from
The stage, Tor when he married, two years later,
in real earnest he led TO the altar another Gaety
girl, in the person Of Rosie Boote and they have
2 couple Of boys known as the Earl Of Bective
and Lord William Taylom respectively.
Neither Lord nor Lady Headfort has been seen
IN London since their marriage and they have no
mouse IN town But I1eaGIorT House, their country
seat IN County Meath. is beautiful place the man
sion having been built and decora ted in the eigh
7eeuth century by the famous brothers Adam. The
ma rquis is the head of the Taylour family, and
while the latter Is Of Sussex origin II first came
into prominence when Thomas Taylour went over TO
Ireland in the seventeenth century with his friend
and college companion Sir William Petty, with
whom ne undertook the famous survey of the Emer-
AID Isle known as the Down survey This Thomas
Tayiour was fascinated by Ireland that he sold
4U Of his English property and invested the money
in land in Ireland. Of which the Headfort House
state in County EIcarh formed part and parcel His
son was created baronet, his great-grandson was
made Earl Of BeCtfve. and this Lord Bectves son
became the first Marquis Of Headrort, the present
master OF Headfort House being the fourth marquis
# The line MARQUISE DE FONTENOY.