New-York tribune., 1910-11-06
SIR HUGH M'CALMONT
British General Now Here and
His Multi-MilIi0naire Son,
Dermot.

,r,on,right 1910 by the Brentwood Cou,usnv1
General Sir Hugh MacCalmout who
reached the United States yesterday on
hoard the Mauretania, is an Irishman who
has often been described, and with Justice.
as the keenest soldier and the most brill
fsnt sportsman of the British army. There
ts practically no branch Of sport In which
he has not had a fling and held his own
among the best. and in his younger DAYS
was the crack steerlechase rider. not only
in England but also in Ireland which is
saying more
AS far as soldering is concerned, he was
with Lord Wolseley in the Red River ex-
redition in 1870 and the first man into
Fort Garry, wnere he hoisted the Union
Jack. He was with Wolseley again in the
ashanti war. and afterward was enabled.
as military a;tache at Constantinople, to
30 through the entire Turko- Russian war
on the staff of General Sir Arthur Kembal.
being present at the siege of Kars.
AS soon as the fighting there was over
lie was off TO the Zulu war. where ne is on
record as having captured single handed
Hing Cetawayo's wardrobe, whatever that
may have consisted Of. A year later he was
fighting on the Indian frontier then back
in Africa, against the Beers. In 1882 he
took part in the Egyptian war, and in the
battle OF TeI-el-Kebrr; also in the unsuc-
ceSsful expedition of Lord Wolseley for the
relief of GorIon ar Khartoun in 1885.
Throughout the Boer war of ten years ago
Re commanded the Cork district. in Ireland.
onl in 1900 won the grand military steepIe-
chase st Punchestown. just to keep his
hand In.
The general is very well off having a
Of r,iN
Juliet. at ThOma stown. Kilkenny. and Abb
beylands, In Antrim: while his only son,
Dermot MacCalmont, inherited SIS. 5000 at
the age of seventeen from his cousin Harry
MacCalmont, this fortune possessing a par
ticular American interest, having been ac-
quired in this country
The MacCalmonts, who are of old North
OF Ireland stock, were originally exporters
of linens at Belfast. Making a largescon-
signment to Guyon & Co., OF Philadelphia,
the latter we're unable to pay for the same
at maturity, and the MacCalTnonts accepted
in settlement a number of shares in the
Philadelphia S Reading Railroad. then an
altogether new enterprise. Subsequently
Robert MacCalmont and his brother Hugh
acquired a controlling interest in the road,
and they were represented for a number of
years by Charles E. Smith, who was preSi-
dent of the line from 1858 to 1869 and whose
nephew, T. GuiIford Smith, of Buffalo, is
one of the regents of the University of
the State Of New York
1t was through their holdings in the
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, and af-
/ terward through their dealings with the
Erie road. that the AIacCaImonts acquired
their great fortune, which at their death
would have gone to their sisters son, the
late Lord Cairns, had he not offended them
by the legal tangle in which he became in
volved with an actress, resulting in sen
sational cause celebre.
Their money went instead to another of
| their neprews. Harry MacCalmont. and
when he died childless he bequeathed it to
General Sir Hugh MacCalmont's young son,
Der1not. The widowed Mrs. Harry Mac
Calmont has life interest in a portion of
her husbands estate. which on her death
will 60 TO still further swell young Der
mot's large fortune. Mrs. Harry MacCaI-
mont was a Miss de Battle. a sister. there
fore, OF Sir Hugo de Battle the husband
OF the former Mrs. Langtry, and sister also
of the beautiful Lady Crossley, the wife of
I Sir Car-;Ia CtroceTaz-