The Washington herald., 1910-11-20
DISRAELI BIRTH
AND EASYsLIFE

Gray Inns gardens. Disraeli was bap-
tized into the Christian faith, when twelve
years OF age. at the Church of St. An
| drew. Halborn. on July Is. 1917. and in
the registry is described as from Kings
road. but DR. John b. Jeafffeson years
ago declared that the Disraelis In 1888
We're living behind Canonbury Tower;
that while this house was undergoing re-
pairs they lived for a twelvemonth next
door to DR.. Jeafreson's grandfather
in Trinity row. Islington, and that Ben
jamin Disraen was born there.
This Trinity row house, later known as
| 2l5 Upper street. in Disraeli's time was
an agreeable private residence, the front
windows OF which commanded a fine
view upon Canonsbury Fields Claims
are put In also for Hackney. ST. Mary
/ Ak, and Bloomsbury Square by other
biographers, and Il is even on record that
/ Disraei once told a friend that he was
/ born in a library at the Adelphi."
In fact. Disraeli was given to practical
/ joking about his birthplace. and once,
while prime minister, solemRly visited a
house In Bloomsbury and asked leave to
go over H. lingering for some time In
contemplation. as he described IL, of the
room in which I was born" This, how
ever, is a glimpse of Disraeh as a ro-
mancer, and the contest still must re-
main between TheobaIds road and Upper
street. Islington,
Disraeli was litterateur and TO the last
years OF his crowded life preserved
| tender spot in his heart for men OF let
ters. How he offered a knighthood 10
! Carlyle in a letter full Of grace and
charm is well known. In his youth he
met Tom Moore and Sir Walter Scott,
and he had an indirect link also with
/ Byron, having befriended ''Tita," the We
netian gondoller who became Byron's
| devoted personal servant and was with
the poet when he died at Missolonghi.
Tita first Of all was placed in the home
| Of Disraelrs father, and later. through
/ his patrons influence. became head mes
! senger al the india office A strange way
/ 10 spend the evening Of an adventurous
| life. but the prosaic often follows the ro-
mantle hot-footed When Tita died. Dis
| raeli used his personal influence with
/ Queen Victoria 10 procure pension Of
/ 81 a week for his widow, an English
woman. Come to think OF il. Tita was
/ immOrtalized IN Don Juan
! II would be interesting to know how
/ Edmund Burke would have pronounced
/ Lord Beaconshald." That title, for which
/ il is said the patent actually had been
made out. would have been his had not
death interviewed When Dlsraeli took
/ it. there were some hostile critics who
/ questioned the taste OF his adoption 81 a
| --h 4
WAS sacred 20 Burke. But somehow the
/ title always had been attractive 20 Dis
/ raei Ills wife had been created Wis
! countess Beaconsheld earlier. and long
/ before that he introduced Lord and
/ Lady Beaconsheld" a. two OF the guests
1 at Chateau Desir" in his youthful
novel Vivian Grey
/ To be recognized by a cabman sets the
seal upon fame. Hence DisraeH really
and truly was famous" Lady Dorothy
/ Nevin. in her book. calls TO mind Bea-
I coHsfeld boast. He was getting into a
! hanson. when the driver opened the trap
door; Il know who YOU are. sir he said.
II have read all your books. bar Lo-
! THAR
But there is a reverse 10 every medal
| Disraeli once suffered a setback. II
walked with Gladstone one day" wrote
I
a gentleman came up and said Might
] ask if that was Mr.. Disraeli?'
Such is fame
Lord Rosebery's sugst stion that Linlith-
SOW Palace should he restored and glori-
ned into a memorial OF King Edward Is
one likely 20 awaken responsive chord
I in scotland The one defect, however.
about all these suggestions for the con-
version 20 new purposes Of ancient build
/ ings is that they already are memorials
20 some one else, Both Holyrood and
/ I.inlithgoW are forever linked with Mary
I Queen of Scots, the latter being her
/ birthplace Linlithgow mainly is charged
/ with memories OF bygone kings. II was
there that James III found shelter from
/ assassination. where James ~ constructed
/ his Parliament Hall and where James
/ Y was presented with a sword of state
from the Pope James VI also left his
/ mark on the place by large addition.
which the English soldiers did their best
10 dem0lish in the fighting of 1745 4
government grant helped 10 restore the
shattered fabric. and, as Lord Rosebery
seems TO think, it would not be difficult
10 complete the task.
Eastbourne. where a statue has been
erected 10 the late Duke OF DevOnshire,
has altered since the DAYS when Charles
Lamb spent a short holiday there. Lamb
hated the place as he hated all seaside
places. I'VE have been dull at Worthing
enc summer" he wrote; "duller at
! Brighton another; dullest az Eastbourne
l q third. and now. at this moment. doing
dreary penance at Hastings" The dis
trlct in 1890 was the scene of a naval
/ engagement in which-it is humiliating
20 Englshmen to record the fact-the
united English and Dutch fleets were de-
feated by the French under TTouviIle.
The reason for this defeat lay in the
/ lukeWarmness of the English admiral,
/ Lord Torrington, who had carried the
invitation TO William OF Orange the year
before but who by this time had con-
ceived hatred of the Dutch. BY con-
irving TO keep the English ships out of
the fight, he allowed the Dutch vessels
tc be badly mauled by the enemy.
Miss Violet Meysey Thompson, eldest
daughter of Lord and Lady Knares-
borough, who on November was mar
( ried to Capt. Vandeleur at ST. Peters
Church, Eaton Square, wore a robe of
cloth of silver covered with an outer
dress of very valuable old Italian lace.
lent by Lady Knaresborough The train
of white and silver brocade fell from the
shoulders, and, like all of the fashion
able brides of this year. Miss Thompson
wore her bridal veil closely bound to
her head by circular wreath of orange
( blossoms
The brides three sisters were among
the nine maids who followed her To the
altar and viOets. the brides name flow
ers, were in evidence in their bouquets.
Wedding presents innumerable were