The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-11
RICH REQUEST FALLS
TO LORD CAITHNESS

ITO her union to the fourteenth Lord
Caithness had been the wife of the
| Spanish Count Pomar. After the counts
death she obtained from the Vatican
| the title of duchess for herself and
| OF duke for her son by her first mar
riage. But on marrying Lord CATH
ness she abandoned the title of Ouch
css for that of Countess of Caithnegs.
being very we'll aware of the su-
/ perior value of an ancient British
title to one of mushroom character.
Her son. however. still figures both in
Parts and at Nice. Ras Duke of Pomar.
and enjoys almost as great reputa-
tation for fooltshness as his mother.
who, among other eccentricities. was
| formerly convinced that Mary Quen-
| of Scots had become reincarnated In
her. and posed as that Inflated sover
eign on all possible. occasions. More
over. after the death of Madame Bla
lvatsky, she protested to have daily
| Interviews and conversations with the
spirit OF that defunct prophecies OF
theosophy.
Among the heads of other branches
of the house of Sinclair. of which
the Earl OF Caithness Is chief. are Lori
Sinclair. who has transformed the
patronymic Of his family into ST. Clair.
also Sir John Sinclair. of Dunbeath.
and Sir John Teiiemache Sinclair. OF
| Ulster. Lord Sinclair and the two
baronets in question own extensive
estates in Scotland especially Sir
John Tellemache Sinclair. the we'll
known poet and author. whose landed
| possessions in Scotland extend over 100
square miles. His grandson and heir
| to his title and estates has American
| blood in his veins, his mother having
been daughter OF Mahlon Sands. of
| New York. Sir John, who has been
on terms of friendship with all sorts
of public men, such as Bismarck, Ma
poleon ILL., King Louis Philippe, the
| Comte de Chambord and Prince Gort-
chskoff, was in his boyhood a page of
honor TO Queen Adelaide. and among
his sons-in-law was the late General
owen Williams, NJ p. of Temple
House, Bucks. the well-known sports-
| man. and one of the creators of the
| Sandown Park races.
| The present Earl OF Sinclair. I may
| add in conclusion, Is unmarried. and
the next heir Is his brother. the Hon
ter has several daughters, but no sons
and after. him the earldom will go to
another brother. clergyman, who
is rector of Hempsted. in Gloucester
shire.
With regard to the rumors current
In England. and which have found
! their way into nrint TO the effect that
King Edward died as a member of
the Roman Catholic Church. 1T may
be timely to point out that similar
George ~. and Charles II, reports
never substantiated. That King Ed
ward entertained much sympathy for
the Roman Catholic Church no one
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deny. He was the first British sover-
leigh since the overthrow of the
| Stuarts to attend mass. This he did
! at least dozen times during his reign.
with Cardinal Manning and with Car
Idinal Vaughan, both of whom on
number OF occasions he invited to
meet him at dinner: and while he was
| very fond of the present Bishop of
| London and of the Archbishop of York.
he did not manifest prediction for
lany of the four last ArchbishopS of
/ Canterbury. His inclinations, as far
as the Church of England itself was
| concerned, were pronouncedly High
| Church, and these religious views are
I what has been alleged is very ritual
listic. SO much so indeed that she be-
lieves In MISREPRESENTATION.
Copyright, 1910, by the Brentwood