The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-28
NOW SIR PHILIP
WILL WED AGAIN
Permitted Wife to Divofce Him
So She Could Marry
an American.
NEW BRIDE is HANDSOME
Captain Montagu Parker, OF Boer
War Fame, Comes Over to
See This Country.
By la MAnauIsE DE EoNrENoY.

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By la MARQUIsE DE i'ONTENOY
- liz PHILIP GREY EGERToN. who
e permitted the beautiful American
lk2 wife, IL daughter of the late Ma
jor j. Wayne Cuyler, to divorce
him in order to enable her to wed her
countryman, Richard N1cCreery, Is
about to make another matrimonia
venture, and will lead, not to the
altar, but to the registry office, Lady
Clarke, who not long ago secured q
divorce from her husband. Sir Rupert
Clarke, of Melbourne Although Sir
Philips children were awarded by the
courts to his former wife, they now
make their home with him. and as
Lady Clarke has likewise retained
possession of the children of her mar
riage to Sir Rupert, he VIII have
quite large party of young people
at Oultor Park, his beautiful old place
in Cheshire. Sir Philip is the twelfth
baronet of his line. his baronetcy dat
ing from the reign of James J. But
sion of his family since the reign
OF Richard III. and is filed from cellar
10 garnet with art treasures. Sir
Philip was an Intimate friend of the
late Duke of Clarence, and known
and renowned for his proficiency in
banjo playing and In the singing of
comic songs: is the head of that his
toric house of Egerton which has
members to the House of Lords. All
OF its members in the upper chamber
arc descended from the younger son
OF Sir Philip Egerton, one of the
knights of King Edward W, whereas
it is from that Sir Philips eldest son
that the Sir Philip Grey kigerton of
to-day is descended
With regard to Lady Clarke, who
is now about to become Lady Grey
Egerton, she is. although very hand
some woman. no longer in the hrst
bloom of youth, and her eldest daugh-
ter. Miss Phyllis Clarke, who has. Just
published a very successful novel. deal
ing with Russian life, Is making her
debut this year Lady Clarke was
separated from Sir Rupert for some
from him last fall and. abandoning
Rupertswood. his magnificent place in
Victoria, has been makins her home
in England. with large house in
Park Lane, London, and country
seat in Buckinghamshire. She Is very
clever, wealthy. handsome and popu-
lar in English society. Sir Rupert is
accounted as the richest man in Aus
tralia: inherited something like $780,
100000 from his father, Sir William
Clarke. and this wealth has been in
creased by the growth in the value OF
real estate at Melbourne.
The founder, of the Clarke fortune
was big Clarke" who in spite of the
gorgeous array of ancestors with
s spn bv 'h the f Rova S' oers Of
Heralds. in London, on being created
a baronet in 1882, began life in
butchers shop as errand boy and as
Sistant in the Whitechapel district of
In 1870, opened a butchers shop at
Melbourne. prospered, went into sheep
farming. made money there again.
invested 1T in real estate in Melbourne.
his property doubling again and again
in value as the city grew and de-
veloped He was a very odd char
acter, of whom the most extraordinary
stories were told, especially In connec-
ton with his avarice
Captain the Hon. Montagu Parker
of the Grenadier Guards, who has
brother John, and is staying at the
Hotel st. Regis, in New York. pre-
paratory to an extensive tour through
this country and Canada, where he
will spend some time with his uncle
and aunt, Governor General and Lady
Grey. at Ottawa is the heir presump-
tive to the peerages of his brother. the
fourth Earl Morley, who spent con-
siderable time in America prior to
the death 20, Of his father. undeE the
H.
Morley and his brothers belong to the
fine old Devon house of Parker, among
the many distinguished members OF
which was the famous Admiral Sir
Hyde Parker. who destroyed the Dutch
fleet at the Dogser Bank in 1881, and
afterwards sailing on board his flag
ship Cato from Rio. bound for the
West indies vanished with his ship
and all his crew from human ken, as
completely as the missing Archdukc
a fri hai Inc Il n
or again. The principal country seat
of Lord Morley is Saltram, near Plymp-
ton which is said to be the largest. If
not the finest. mansion in the county
collection Of portraits by Sir Joshua
REYNOLDS. 1t is within easy reach of
plymouth, a seaport for which both
the first and second earls did much,
among other things constructing
great drydock in Catwater Bay for the
repairing of merchantmen.
Captain Montagu Parker went
the Boer War, where he was
badly wounded, and in one way or an
other has had quite as much excite
lnent and adventure in his life as his
bIother, the present earl. who. amongst
other things was shipwrecked in the
Pacific. Returning from Norfolk ISL
ana 1, to Sydney, In Australia. the ship.
lhe avalon, caught fire, and her COM
mander decided to run to Lord Howe
sland. which was about 100 miles
or When within couple of miles
Of the shore. all on board were com
PEELED to take to the boats, and be-
[ore the latter had got more than
ooo yards away. there was a terrific
explosion, the ship immediately dis
appearing beneath the waves in q |
column Of flame and smoke.
!nasmuch as every unmarried Eng
lshman who comes to this country is
credited, rightly or wrongly, with mat
Intentions, 1t NAV he &c ,,,aI1 |
to mention that Captain Parker is |
very we'll off. having inherited the
fortune of his mother. the late 1adv
Morley, who was one Of the daurhters
ind heiresses of Robert Holford. WHOSE |
London home, Dorchester House is
low occupied by the American am
,assador. A''A
Count Henri de Beaufort, whose mar
'iaGe to Countess Marie va-Tarouca !
las Just taken place at Vienna. in |
he presence Of several OF the arch |
lulses and archduchesses of the Inn
,erial family. is the son and heir or |
he Dutch Duke of Beaufort, and has
10 connection whatsoever with the
English ducnl house of Beaufort. Nor
& he related In anv Vav IN tha voupr. |