The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-11
ENGLISH SOCIAL AFFAIRS
BY LADY MARY MANWARING

and was grandmother of Catherine Sucking, Nelsons mother. The great admiral was the sixteenth in direct de- scent from King Edward, and it is cer- tainly point of no little interest that the greatest soldier and sailor England has ever produced should have been able to trace their common ancestry to the greatest King-from a military point of view-who ever wc<e the Eng fish crown.
 Viscount Torrington, who married Miss Souray the other day, is the twentieth British peer to marry an actress since the beginning of the peer age. Eleven of these marriages have taken place within the last 26 years, the remaining nine having covered a period of 124 years-from 1724 to 1847 Either, therefore, the peerage Is less particular than formerly or the fascina- tions of stage beauties are less resist able.
 The fashion was set in the eighteenth century by the Earl of Peterborough, the Duke of Bolton, and the Earl of Derby, who married respectively Anas- tasia Robinson, Lavinia Fenton, and Eliza beth Farren.
 In more recent times an impetus was given to such unions by the late Duke of Cambridge's marriage in 1847 II came in comparatively quick succession the marriages of:
 Baron Gardner and Julia Fortoscue
 The Marquis of Ailesbury and Dolly Tester
 The Earl of Clancarty and Belle Bill ton.
 The Earl of Orkney and Connie Gill; christ.
 Baron Ha1don and Layinia Maichle.
 The Marquis of Headfort and Rosie Boote.
 The Earl of Rossyln and Anne Rob inson.
 Baron de Clifford and Eva Caring ton.
 Baron Ashburton and Frances Don nely.
 Earl Poulett and Sylvia Storey.
 Many of these were signularly hap py; one of them, that of Lord Francis Hope and May Yohe, ended tragically. Among the actresses who married near relatives of peers were Kate Vaughan, Miss Marie Tempest, Miss Ellis Jef- freys and Miss Isabel Jay
 As rule stage marrying peers have gone to the burlesque or the musical comedy theatres for their wives, while two footlight peeresses = Belle Bllton and May Yohe-were closely associated with the music halls.
 Owing to the fact. that there will be no foreign sojourn in the autumn of the year in the case of King George, and also no prolonged residence In Nor folk. the Windsor season will begin earlier than it has done for many years past. It will take the place of Sand ringham as the headquarters of the court in the closing months of the year. Two consequences of special interest to the social world will follow. One is that their majesties' Inequalities at Windsor will cover longer period and embrace wider circle drawn from the second consequence is that the shoot ing facilities hitherto furnished on the Windsor demesnes will be inadequate for the needs of the King and his guests.
 It Is understood that MT. Gilbert Boyes, who has just been commissioned to execute the designs for the new great seal of the United Kingdom in tends to change the centuries-old de- sign of the sovereign on horseback on the reverse side. He will, however, adhere to the conventional obverse side of the sovereign enthroned with one or two symb olical figures.
 MT. Boyes win first. submit a few drawings of his designs When one or these is approved he will make a model in wax. From the wax model a plaster cast is then made and iron. that steel cast is made. The steel cast will be about IS nches in diameter and the actual seal of about six inches in diameter is reproduced from 1t and reduced at the same time.