The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-13

~ He: painting. The Earl and Count
ess OF Derby and their Child"
which has Just been purchased
:. by the New York art firm of
kneedler, was the finest masterpiece OF
Nandyke in the collection OF Lord Ciar-
endon, and perhaps the finest Nandyke
in all England, and there is a con
siderable amount of feeling against
the earl for having failed to give the
National Gallery, or some other public
institution, the chance of buying it be-
fore allowing 1t TO go abroad. Indeed,
II Is probable that the present Lord
Derby. who is enormously rich. would
large a sum as that offered by the
kneedlers for the acquisition of thi.
portrait of the, most famous Of his
bsrbx wbo asl TIE ssy yenth EaFl
daughter Of the French house of De
la Tremoille defended Lathom House
against Oliver Cromwell for King
Charles. and was subsequently put 10
master. as penalty for his defiance
OF the great Protector On the other
hand, Lord Clarendon has nc, less than
! twenty-siX paintings by Vandyke at tho
not far out of London. and he may
| therefore. be pardoned for having been
willing 10 accept a handsome offer for
one of them, in which he did not have
any immediate ancestral interest.
The Grove is a Queen Anne touse
dating fhs 49, in Its present condition. from
fury. and was purchased somewhere
about 1853 by the FIRST Lord Clarendon
of the present line. 1t is said to be
haunted by the ghost of the third
former owners. and whose appearance
on shostly horse. accompanied by a
| pack of spectral hounds. chasing q
! phantom fox. is said to constitute a
punishment for the sin which he com
| mitted in building the kitchen on the
site and foundations OF tho old time
chapel, which he destroyed for the
purpose.
important political conferences during
the lifetime of the late Lord Clarendon.
one OF the most famous statesmen of
the early Victorian era, and who is
declared by many of his contempora.
| ries to have been the real father OF
Empress Eugene, having as q young
] man been one OF the most devoted ad
mlrers OF her mother, while his at
lection for the Empress. prior to her
"a certain parental tenderness.
The Memoirs of Charles Greville"
show that many a Cabinet was made
and unmade at the Grove. 1t is full
not only of magnificent pictures, but of
all sorts of historical relics, among
them. the original gold key OF Hyde
Park, presented by Charles ]. to his
Lord Lord Chancellor, Clarendon when. in
1888, he decided to sacrifice his own
fare OF his people and abolishing his
i game preserves in the Park of Hyde
threw 1T open to the public. giving the
gold key of the domain to the Lord
4 High Chancellor, in token OF the oc-
caslon. Another relic is the portrait
OF the Infanta Catherine of Portugal
his s ssa os and Which ha s. cap
tiyated him that he made her his wife
4 The present Lord Clarendon is the
Z. nth OF his line. and is a cadet OF
the House Of Yilliers, Of which the
Earl OF Jersey is the chief. His earl
dom dom was created by George Ill, II
4 younger son Of the second Lord Jersey
and who had married the granddaugh,
ter and heress of Henry Hyde. the
late Earl OF Clarendon and Rochester
of the Hyde family. To the latter. II
and b oueen aaa bs both 9nee Ma
Hyde. daughter of Lord Claren
4 don, the Chancellor, and who wa:
the first wife OF James II. Jane!
Ills second wife was Mary OF Modena
aSres "a ths w il ri e 1884, M
10 Queen Victoria for many years. ant
, also for the first six years of TIL.
reign of Edward VII, Is one of TIL,
hest-known figures In English cour
life.
Lord Ribblesdale has created some
thing Of sensation in England b!
lending Gisburn Park, his ancesst l;a
shire. for the use of great Socialis
! demonstration, under the mana gemen
lac xrai, n y1nv,