The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-06-28
LORD POULETT
is IN The CITY
Man Whose Title to EarIdom Was
Contested in WorId-Noted
Litigation.
RESULT OF A FOOLISH BET
Organ Grinder Wscount" Made
Life Miserable for Former
Holder of Title.
RESULT OF A FOOLISH BET
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Lord William John Lydston Poulett,
seventh earl of Poulett, whose step
brother, the famous "organ. grinding
viscount," contested the incumbent Is
right to succeed to the title he bears,
is in Honolulu, arriving as a passenger
yesterday from Yokohama on the Pa
cifc Mail steamship Manehuria. He is
accompanied by Lady Poulett, who was
an English actress before their mar
riage. Lord Poulett was for years one
of the two central figures in the
strangest case in the history of the
British peerage, which was first decided
by the British house of lords committee
when it refused to recognize the claims
of the "organ-grinder' to the title
and estates of Lord Poulett, and from
this decision there is no appeal. The
whole case forms one of the most re.
markable peerage romances in history.
Lord and Lady Poulett are making a
leisurely tour of the world, and are
doing it quietly. The earl is young
man, having been born in 1888, being
the son of the late earl, who died in
1899, by his third wife, and it is this
fact which brought him and his step
brother, the Organ-grinding viscount, -
before the British courts.
Foolish Wager at Bottom.
The contest struck at the very root
of entail, involving questions of legiti-
macy which have never before been
raised in British courts. At the bottom
of the whole trouble was foolish bet
and foolish wedding, and both these
caused the courts of Great Britain and
the house of lords to watch with the
keenest interest this remarkable case.
In the summer of 1849, William
Henry Poulett, father of the present
earl, was a lieutenant in the Second
Foot, stationed Mt Portsmouth. At that
time no fewer than six persons stood
between him and the title to the earl
dom, and in view of this fact he did not
restrain his Maynard ways. At an Off
GERS mess one night in Portsmouth the
young lieutenant drank more than was
good for him. There were songs and
quips, and insane wagers made their
appearance.
Married FIRST Girl Met.
ON wager FIVE hundred pounds you
nou HhIlg lht hihb gDhHk npHitAh you
meet on the street, was the challenge
of one officer TO young Poulett
"DOne," shouted Lieutenant Poulett.
The wager money looked good 10 him
just then, and the officers struck palms
10 clineh the bargain. II was late at
night when P0uiett went out into thel
night, his brain little heated by wine.
Fato planned that he should win the
wager, for he met Elizabeth Ievinia
Newman, daughter Of a pilot, coming
down the street. The lieutenant hailed
hor and asked her 10 marry bin. She
pgreed, aud that day, which WA June
81, lsi9, just eiTiy'ope years ago tina
week, they we're married
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whole nobility " Britain 10 take boz
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