The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-13
HENRY WAS CREATOR
OF KYLEMORE CASTLE
y La MARauIsE DE roNTENoY,

!; by La MARauIsE DE TONTENOY.
! n m ITCHELL HENRY, whose death
MI has just taken place at the
ilYl age of cighty-four, at hotel
at bennington. England, was
| is now the principal home of the Duke
OF Manchester and of his American
wife. Dollars played an important
duke, but also in its Construction; for
the great cotton and print firm of y.
s. S. Henry G. Co, OF Manchester and
Of Bradford, from which Mitchell Henry
to bring into existence Kylemore, on
| the Galway shores of the Atlantic, had
It's origin in Philadelphia. where
Mitchell .Henry's father, Alexander
| business there, founded the firm, for
| the export Of raw American cotton to
| England. and for the import OF man
ufactured cotton and prints from Great
as a surgeon and was in practice as
q consulting surgeon of some note in
| London, when he was called by his
fathers death TO take charge Of the
| business. and two years afterwards he
purchased some 1900 acres OF noun
| tain and moor land, stretching down
! to the very shores of the Atlantic in
| Galway, and built there Kylemore Cas-
! tie, on the foundations OF an old and
| very magnificent castle which had be-
| longed to the Blakcs of Riceyylc, one
! of the most ancient families of ireland,
| from whom, indeed, Mitchell Henry
of the best known of Charles Levers
novels. Bishops Folly" which plays
so prominent role in the 'Bramieighs
| OF Bishops Folly" is Kylemorc Cas-
| tie, and the Bramleighs are none other
than the Blakes
Mitchell Henry spent over s2,000,00o
| in reconstructing the castle and in
Ilaying out and improving the grounds.
1 Ia. ,tuu al n al Tod N
| beautiful country home, until the day
| when his young daughter met death
by drowning. in the Tough OF Kylemore.
! under the very windows, so Co speak,
of the castle. II was then that he
| placed it on the market and eventually
sold it, about six or seven years ago
Tor The relatively small sum of $500,
! 900, that is TO say, less than tenth
OF the amount that he had spent III
| improvements alone, the purchaser
being the present Duchess OF Man
chester and her father, Eugene Zim-
| norman.
Henry owned Kylemore, II was his
, boast that he had never cvicted q ten
ant or raised a rent. In 1871 lie was,
as master of Kylcmorc Castle, elected
as member of Parliament for County
i Galway, on the home rule ticket lie
/ was an intimate friend of Butt. the
then home rule leader and at one
moment i was expected that he wouII
the party, but his influence waned
before the rising star of i'nrnell, and
though he continued to SIT III Parlia-
ment for Galway, nominally as home
ruler, he gradually lost all sympathy
with the home rule movement. IN
fact, when the split in the. Ltheral
party took place. in connection Win
GIadstone's home rule bill, he ab2n-
doned the Irish cause, and proclaimed
himself a Liberal Unionist.
Lord Igcrtons extraordinary dis
claimer, in the London papers, OF ms
own presence. and OF that OF ms VIE, VIE,
woman. Miss Helen EScrton. to Edward
Hildyard, Of Unthanf Hall, Durham,
and Gaddesby Hall. in Leicestcrshire
is generally construed by the iricnda
and acquantances of the Eserton
family as due to the fact that the
marriage took place under The aus
piccs Of the Duchess of Buckingham
ana Chandes, who gave the We rrI,, ~,
Gardens, after the wedding. The ducll-
ess is the widow of Lord Egerton.
his death and whose barony passed
to his brother, the present L9r9
Egerton. The late carl was very rich
indeed, and much to the disgust OF ms
brother and successor, he lett pracll-
cally the whole of his fortune to his
daughter by his first nlarriase. namely.
the Countess of Albemarle, to her
son, his favorite grandchild, Niscouni
Bury, and more especially TO ms
widow, the Duchess of Buckingham
and Chandcs, who on marrying nm
had retained, in accordance with Eng
llsn custom and social courtesy, the
ducal titles OF her first husband, who
was the last Duke of Buckingham.
Indeed, she remains in possession. OF
Tatton Park, the late earls beautiful
| place in Cheshire, of his stately man
sion in ST. James's Square, and OF
his pretty suburban home at Wim-
bledon.
The present Lord Egerton held ,the
duchess responsible for the conditions
of his brothers. will, and for the
the property from the title, even his
magnificent collection of arms, many
/ of his art treasures, which the duchess
! did not wish to retain, being orderec
by the will to be sold for her benefit
OF. else to be presented to one of tbs
national museums as the "Egerton Col
:. lection" Under the circumstances il
: is only natural that Lord Egerton anc
I his wife should have felt very bitter
| against the duchess, their anger BEN
| Increased by the circumstance tina,
she had managed to propitlate and tt
| remain on terms of affection ahe
friendship with all the other mem,
i bers Of the Egertot family; That \
| claimer published in the London press
| by Lord E,gerton
III Lord Egerton represents a. younger
/ branch of that great house of Eser'
ton of which the Earl of Ellesmere u
II tho chief His father, who used to e.