The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-21
Conveyance of Patent flights.
A MAN
OF GREAT RESOURCE

namely, the SCOTS of Arden to which
Sir Walter Scott, the famous novelist,
belonged. The SCOTS of Arden became
lords of Polwarth through the mar
riage in 1854 of the tenth Laird of
Arden with Lady Diana Hume Camp
bell. daughter of the Earl of March
mont. and Lord of Polwarth. who was
Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland.
while his earldom became extinct, his
barony of Polwarth passed to his
daughter, Lady Dianas and on her
death to her son by her marriage with
Walter Scott of Arden. namely. Hugh
Scott. who became sixth Lord of Pol
warth and eleventh Laird of Arden
He assumed the additional patronymic
of Hepburn, in consequence of the
estates of the Hepburns Of Humble
having descended to him. through Helen
great-grandmother. The present Lord
Polwarth is his grandson.
While Lord Polwarth Is only eighth
Lord OF Polwarth and the thirteenth
Laird of Arden, he is twenty-third in
lineal descent from ucttred Ftz Scott.
who flourished in the reign of David
1. of Scotland, and was witness to the
two charters granted by him To the
abbeys of Holyrood and selkirk in the
Years 1928 and 1880. AS such, Lord Pol
warth claims the chieftainship of all
the SCOTS in Scotland his point being
that the Scott family. of which the
Duke Of Buccleuch is the chief, Is only
descended in the female line from Sill.
Robert Scott. the founder of the Buc-
cleuch branch.
The Master of PolWarth now here
is indebted for. his title Of Master
the eldest sons of Scottish viscounts,
barons, and even of earls, have ALWAYS
been known as 'the Master" He is
the head of the Government Prison
Commission for Scotland is married
to daughter Of Sir Thomas Fowen
Buxton, was educated at Elton and
Trinity, Cambridge. and is nephew
of Lord Aberdeen. A sister OF the
Master of Polwarth, the Hon. Mary
Hepburn Scott, Is out in Central Asia
in missionary work, under the.auspices
OF the Church of Scotland Missionary
Society. While brother. the Hon
Henry Scott. is ranching in the Trans
Vaal.
The Masters English colleague. Sit
Evelyn j. Ruggles Brise. who has beer
lands principal representative at tn
International Prison Con gress at Wash
| ington. is one of the best known mel
in London society. In great demand
| dinners and most n agreeable CONVEX
sationalist. He is president OF thu
1 "
control of all the penal institutions u
| England, asd is known by crIlninolo
gists throughout the world sas tn
! founder of the so-called Borstals system
of treatment off, the young crimina
class, which may be said to consist Q
a combination Of indetermnntc sen
| fences. of the imparting of general IN
| struction. and In the knowledge o
trades and, in one word. In the train
| ing of inctpient criminals into usefu
: citizens.
| Sir EVELYN is the son of Sir Samue
| Ruggles Brise. member OF Parliamen
| for East Essex, and after leaving Elton
where he was captain of the cricke
| eleven, went to Oxford where he dis
| tinguished himself in the football feel.
and became the favorire pupil o
| 1owctt at Baliol. just thirty year
ago he obtained, through open conpe
titions, a clerkship In the home de
/ partment, became private secretary Il
| turn of Sir William Vernon Harcourt
Lord Cross, Hugh Childers and I4or,
/ landau, and at the end or ten year
Was promoted to u commssionershi]
] of prisons. His two particular friend
IN the present administration are Pro-
micr Asquith and ills old chiefs son
i Lulu" Harcourt, Commissioner (tha
\ Is to say, Ministe) of Public Works
4 he Is unmarried, and though fifty-thre
4 Years OF age, is very we'll preserved
and on the whole quite an ellgibl
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