The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-08

81 LA NhkRlIsE DE foNIENp Z.
THOUGH Queen aIary's Hunga-
n rian ancestry is not royal. yet
n ii Is ancient. for her fathers
mother. Countess Claudine
Rhedey. who on her morganatic mar
riage to the royal Duke Alexander OF
Wurtembcrg, was created By Emperor
Ferdinand of Austria Countess of Ho-
to a family Of the Magyar nobility
that can trace It's ancestry back TO
the year 1900. known as the Rhedeys
of Kis-Rhedey. their title of count
dates from 1893. but the house has now
become virtually extinct in the male
! line.
Duke Alexander of Nuremberg.
that is TO say. the grandfather Of
| Stuttgart in the first years of the
nineteenth century. Entering the
1 Austrian army. he rose very rapidly
| in rank. commanding the Sixteenth
and Italy OF 1859, which eliminated
! in the battle of Solferino. ard in the
Peace of Nillafranca. BY his morEa-
| matte marriage with Countess Claudine
| Rhedey. he had three children. namely.
| Francis Count Hohenstein, subse-
| quently created by the King OF Wur-
| temberg. first prince and then Duke
! OF Teck. and who was the father of
/ Queen Mary. and two daughters. Clau-
I dine and 4Amelie. Claudne. who was
| advanced TO the rank OF Princess OF
Teck by her kinsman. the King of
| Wurtemberg died unmarried. sixteen
| years ago The other sister. Princess
/ Amelia of Teck. married Count Paul
| Hugcl, an officer of the Austrian army
| and titular chamberlain of Emperor
| Francis Joseph. she died in 1853.
1 Won Hugcl, now about forty years
OF age, unmarried, and an officer OF
| the Austrian army He is. therefore
a first cousin OF queen Mary
Young William Fairfax Lucy. who
| has just succumbed to an. operation
for appendicitis, was the eldest son OF
Sir Henry Fairfax Lucy. and heir 10
his baronetcy as we'll as TO charlecote
| Park, in Warwickshire. The latter
came TO Sir Henry through his mar
riage with Ada, daughter and heiress
of Henry Spencer Lucy, l!neal de.
scendant of that Thomas Lucy, Of
Charlecote who had UP Shakespeare
before hin: for poaching in Charleootee
Park. and was in consequence tnereot
immortalized by the Bard Of Avon as
t."Mr. Justice Shallow in The Merry
| Wives of Windsor" Shakespeare. in
"rhe Merry Wives Of Windsor" makes
fun Of the Lucy coat-of-arIlls. and
/ caused the Welsh parson to understanc
the three luces--the medieval English
I.name for the fresh water fish now
known as the plke--as three louses-
! Shakespeare. also, unless ! am mucf
mistaken. further held up the Owner
4 doggerel lines. which are familiar tc
most readers of his works.
Sir Henry Fairfax Lucy assumed the
name of Lucy. in addition to his owr
/ patronymic of Fairfax. on his mar
riage with the heress OF the Lucys
OF Charlecote, in accordance With the
terms of her fathers will. He is de
seconded from the same ancestor as the
/ American born Lord Fairfax, his faith,
ers armorial bearings having beer
Identical with those of the American
Fairfaxes. as also the motto of Fare
fac
I Vice Admiral Sir William Fairfax, whe
was with Wolfe at the taking OF
Quebec, and captured the first shir
taken in the war with France. on the
q occasion OF the famous sea fight be
tween the Arethusa and the Belle
Poule. 1t was for his services there
as also at the battle OF Camperdown
that a baronetcy was granted later OF
to his son Henry. the patent eXpressl,
stating that 1t was bestowed in con
siderat1on of his fathers services 1l
son, the second baronet. was a Crimea'
veteran, and his son. In turn. the pres
ent baronet. namely. Sir Henry Falr'
fax Lucy was formerly an otlcet
OF the Second Life Guards. is carried
on the reserve of the regiment served
in the South African War, has heer
private secretary to couple Of ca d
net ministers, for the sake OF the po
llitical eXnerience. and has also become