The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-23
KRABBE, ACCEPTS
TITULAR DIGNITY

whose radlcalism borders on social.
ism. namely, the Marquis OF North.
ampton. FOR the office OF special am.
bnssador TO announce his accession 70
the President OF the French republic,
and 10 the courts Of Munich, Stuttgart
Athens and the Quirinal. The Mar
quis who IS "A knight OF the Garter.
and who WAS one OF the principal sup
porters in the House OF Lords of tho
financial proposals OF the present gov
eminent, spent, as Lord Compton,
number OF years in the diplomatic SER
vice. being stationed in turn at Paris,
Rome st. Petersburg and Madrid, be-
, sides being one OF the secretaries and
protocolists of the International Da-
nubc Conference In London in 1888.
He Is enormously rich, his wealth COM
Ing to him not only by Inheritance
mother who was the only daughter
and helress OF the second Lord Ash
burton, in his day one of the principal
partners OF the House of Barring. It
is through her that Lord Northsmp-
ton owns the greater portion OF the
Clerkeuweil and 1sllngton districts of
London. which are increasing In value
all the time.
from osbert of Compton. who flourish
ed in the reign OF Henry IL. and who
was the son OF Turchil OF Arden. an
Angio, ehisfial Who as Zee 2d
y
for William the Condueror just be-
fore the battle of Hastings. From
this contemporary OF the Norman Con
quest the present Marquis OF North
line. and his family was already in
| possession of his country seat of
/ Compton Wynyates Ga corruption OF
| Compton OF the Vineyardsj at the
/ time when Doomsday Book was com
/ piled. nearly thousand years ago. IL
| remains TO this day the tayorite home
I of Lord Northampton: the present
mansion. built on the foundations OF
the older bouse. dating from the reign
/ of Henry Viii. when 1t was erected
BY Sir William Compton. who was the
whipping boy, childhood PLAYMATE and
boyhood friend Of Henry VIII. whom
he attended at the Field OF the Cloth
of Gold. besides being HIS ambassador
10 Emperor Charles v. Chancellor OF
Ireland. and one of the participants
In the Battle of the Spurs.
Compton Wynyates Is perhaps one of
the finest halftimbered country seats
In England; strange mixture of Tu-
turrets, embattled walls. timbered ga
BILE ends, and broad moat. teeming
with siivery fish; mansion distin-
guished in an altogether unique FASH
ION in Its demonstration of the archi-
tectural secret of perfect proportion
without regularity. Lord Northamp-
ton has rented his other place. Cas-
tie Ashby, in Northamptonshire, to
Ing magnate. Friedlander, In order 10
have still more money than he has al
ready got, to devote to those philan.
4 thropic enterprises in which he Is so
deeply interested. Castle Ashby also
dates from Queen Elizabeth, though
lingo Jones in 1924 made a number
OF additions while n great dining
room was added in 1896. on the occa-
sion of the state visit OF William III
One of the Lords Northampton of those
days was man of great piety. and to
him are due the biblical texts In
scribed in large stone letters, in tho
form of balnstrade, all around the
edge of the roof of the castle, the idea
being repeated In the stone balustrades
of the manv stately terraces,
lord Northampton also owns old
of London. which he converted a few
81 years ago into a club for the poor of
; the district, and into museum for
canonbury Tower that Washington
, Irving wrote so entertainingly, where
{ the great Sir Francis Bacon was so
often entertained and where Oliver
, Goldsmith found refuge from his cred
) itors and was able to write THE Vicar
of Wakefield" 1t forms part of a
!, mansion built in the fourteenth cen
{ fury and was used 'as prlory until
the Reformation when Henry VIII.
a presented it to Thomas. Lord Crom-
: we'll, his gentleman In waiting. From
!, him it passed into the possession OF
|, i Sir John Spencer, the immensely
) wealthy Lord Mayor OF London, whose
/ was one of the romances of the Eliza
: bethan era
!, Copyright 1910. by The Brentwood
Company