The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-14
ny Ia MARaUIsE DE FoNTENoY.


a the present moment in England
two men known as Lord Clifford,
IL may be as we'll to explain that
the Lord Clifford arriving from Eng
land in New York for visit OF some
duration to the United States, is not
the elderly peer OF that name, who
won the Victoria Cross by feat OF
exceptional heroism, while serving
under Lord Wolseley in the Ashanti
War, in 1873. and who has been acting
governor OF Western Australia. and also
OF Gibraltar. but the eldest son ana
heir of the tenth Marquis of Tweed
dale, whose name should be pronounced
as II it We're spelt IwidGle. me
Der of the House of Lords, in which he
sits as baron; whereas the Lord Git-
ford visiting America is a commoner
in the eyes OF the law, and an carr
merely by usage and courtesy
thanks 10 the custom, sanctioned by
the crown, according to which the
eldest sons of dukes. marquises and
earls are allowed TO make use of one
of the minor titles OF their father.
Young Lord Clifford Is twenty-six
years OF age, unmarried, and has quite
recently retired from his lieutenancy
of the First Regiment of Life
Guards, on the reserve force OF when,
however, he is still carried. He Is
of the Bachelors Club in London; and
although he may possibly md durins
mis- stay over here some American
heiress willing TO share his honors.
of fortune hunter, seeing that the
estates alone, which VIII come
into his possession on the death oil ms
octosenarian father extend oyer i0.-
900 acres in England and Scotland,
In ADDITION TO WnIch the present mar
quis has acquired a considerable for
tune by shrewd business ability. Born
as younger son, the MARQUIS was ed
ucated at Haiieybury, for the ciVil
service IN India. in which he served
the Indian Mutiny. with
distinction. Before re-
turning home ne achieved fane us
IN explorer OF Thibet, which was in
hose days even mueh more strictly
.o-day. What caused him to retire
rom the Indian civil service was the |
act that his elder brother, known in |
lis day as quite the shyest man In |
england, met with sudden death.
Possessed of very strong business !!
ense, the marquis was until few
ears ago, president or nearly filty |
corporations, including several rail
Dads, banks and the Anglo-Amerlcan |
telegraph the Eastern Telegraph, the I
he Submarine Gable Trust, tnat is TO I
ay, the head OF the combination. which
ontrols the greater part of the tele-
Graph service Of the world. The mar
II Clifford. is an Italian by birth,
hough her mother was a ScotchWoman. /
She was a Miss Candida Bar,oiuccl, |
md, many years her husbands. junior.
S still very handsome woman, OF the
uno type OF beauty-tall. well devel-
ped and richly colored, with wealth
# black hair, a magnificent contralto
dice, and stately manner and bear
ng She is one OF the few women
Who have tried their skill as an engine
irving the first locomotive, across the
treat Firth of Forth Bridge.
Yester, which will on the death OF
he aged marquis become the property
nd chief home Of young Lord Ginord'
8 a wonderful old place, which. indeed.
vas already accounted old when King
Alexander III, of Scotland, III l2b5
lsited Sir Hugh de Clifford, in MS I
'astle OF fester, to take counsel with
I'm how to overthrow the Norwegian
INVADER. This historic Interview bore
ruit in the disaster which overlook
he Norwegian King Hakon and his
rmy, and Sir Walter Scott has im-
fA and ST. ngh de aerd
Mon This Sir Hugh, from whom
ord Clifford Is descended, was. cele-
rated as a necromancer,, and Is as
4 his magic wand, the so-called Cob
IN Hall" of the Castle Of Yester. which,
hough the remainder of the castle has
allen into ivy mantled ruin, sun
Xists, huge, stone-vaulted and
oomy chamber, with an immense
replace at the farther end and a
,ell OF unfathomable depth in ono
onbre corner of the chamber. por-
ion of which is apparently hewn out
i the living rock. Sir Hugh, whom
ir Walter Scott describes in Mar
Iifford," Is believed throughout Scot
Ind to have placed spell upon it.
D the effect that any man who dared
) Interfere with it's symmetry In any
,ay should come to a violent end
q one ever dared to tamper with II,
nth the elder brother OF the present
lurouis yentured to do so. In tho
feline of his father, and while still
nown as the Earl Of Clifford he eS-
rossed his ridicule for the superstl-
on, and cleared away Il number of
,e STEPS which led down e The water.
let with his death in endeavoring to
ave the life Of a lahoring man who
AS about to be crushed by a true
hitch he was telling in the vicinltylot