The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-30
by ia MARQUISE DE FONTENOY.
!. UBERON HERBERTS daughter,

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N fayorite companion and princi-
~ pal heiress, Nan Herbert, who
arrived in America on board
the Mauretania the other day. has be-
come endowed with new dignities since
her last sojourn in the United States;
dignities that accord iii with her pro-
fessons of socialism and with her
teachings of Theosophy, in England, in
Sweden, al Point Iona. in California,
and in Cuba. for she returns to Amer
brother Lord Lucas, and in the event
of his death without issue--he is un-
marricd-she viii become n peeress in
her own right. Moreover. she has, as
the crown patent granting TO her
the precedence and status OF the
daughter of peer and the conse-
quent right to the predicate OF Hon
orable" to her Christian name She
lis now the Hon Nan Herbert The
patent was given at her request. and
on the payment OF the customary fees,
amounting TO something in the neigh
was expressed that she should have
made this outlay. since the expenditure
of any money in procuring what is
virtually a nobiliary title is not in
keeping with the doctrines OF social
ism.
The barony of Lucas dates from the
reign of Charles H., and was for many
years merged in the carbon of Cow
per. and on the death without issue
of the last and seventh Earl Cowper.
went to his nephew, the only son OF
his sister, Lady Florence Cowper. who
married the late Auberon Herbert.
The barony OF Lucas Is one of the
Very few created by the Stuart Kings
of England which descend in the
female line, and was originally be-
slowed upon Mary. wife OF Anthony
Earl OF Kent. passing through Il num-
Der of families, until it reached that
of the Earl Cowper, and through
him that of Herbert.
considerable sensation when, not long
after her fathers death, she presented
to her American friend and associate
Mrs Catherine a. Tingley, the Purple
Theosophic cult in this country, the
picturesque home which she had in
herited from him, in the heart of the
New Forest, for use, as schooi or
Universal brotherhood and Theosophy
Berrywood occupies the site of the
cottage or hut OF queer old charhc-
ter of the name Of S1ua. the last of the
colony OF charcoal burners who, down
to the beginning of the Victorian era.
made the New Forest the scene OF their
ssquatter's right to his hut and clear
Ing, and before the crown could re-
cover possession the late Auberon
Herbert bought it, built himself
.haii eoltaSe, coHslsliiiS u pcu tdHu
sitting room. and then bit by bit. as
the humor took him. added room
here and room there, until the crazy,
but picturesque looking pile was COM
pleted as 1t stands to-day. Although
he detested fires. and rather than pol
lutte the atmosphere with any such
invention. sat in his overcoat to keep
out the winter cold, yet he was com
PEELED to retain, in what became his
library, the old squatter fireplace and
In npla n hn
his forest rights
Al Berrywood, Auberon Herbert
made his home for near half CEN
fury AS the humor took him. he
night and owing to this, when Mrs.
Tfngley took possession of the place,
she found bed in every room and on
every floor. In the summer he used
Toned gypsy caravan wagons to the
S summit of one of the neghboring
heights and live there like hermit.
e was younger son of the third
Earl OF carnarvon, and uncle Of the
served in the English army, holding
a commission in the Seventh Hussars
throughout the Indian Mutiny, and
volunteered for service in the Danish
Prussia and Austria in 1864. 1t was
there that he received the Order Of
the Danebrog for his gallantry in
Jumping over a breastwork and run
ming out under a heavy Prussan fire TO |
bring in a badly wounded man. Though
brilliantly gifted, and possessed Of the
lsindest heart he was extremely err
ratio, and mingled doctrines OF social
ism, and even Of anarchy, With pa
trician -prejudices, in the most para
doxical and amusing manner.
To-day he. lies at rest beneath the |
shadow of his home at Berrywood
within little clearing. surrounded by |
tall elms and poplars and remembered
BY all bird lovers as the author OF
he wild birds protection law in Eng
and, that being, indeed. the princi-
reimbursement of his parliamentary
career In his time there was no
garden at Berrywood, the forest COM
ng up9to the very walls of the house;
Wild forest ponies staring through the
at the people within, and
no rabbits scamperlng around the I
loors The nearest post flee is Ring
wood, about seven miles distant which
vas once thriving market town,
,oasting of mayor and corpora
Ion. With two annual fairs and a
weekly market, It was even famous
90 and 400 years ago FOR glove mak- 1
me-. Ringwood, however, like q
lliman being, has passed through ma,
urityIand middle age to senility and
ecnnd childhood, IT was once q toWniI
q day ii is hardly a village, I
The Hon Nan Herbert IS not the
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