The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-14
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ORD ELPHINSToNE. whose Inn
pending marriage TO Lady Mary
IL Bowes LYON. elder daughter OF
the Earl OF Strathmore, mas lust
been announced. is frequent visitor
to the United states. and has many
friends in New York. particularly
among the Vanderbilt and Whitney set
He has done plenty OF big game shoot
| ing IN America. up In Maine. whore
he holds the record Tor the biggest
moose ever killed. also in the Rockies
and In Alaska. Ills only brother and
| heir. the Hon. Mountstuart William Ell
| phinstone. had a ranch for "a number
| OF years in New Mexico, where Lord
| Elphinstone often stayed Lord Ell
phinstone is d great traveller. is never
| so happy as when on some shooting
| or exploring expedition in the least
known parts of the world. and can
| boast of being the only British peer
OF the realm who has ever managed
| to penetrate into. Thibet He has also
done. a consldera bic amount of hunt
NJ, Van dc Byl as his companion. ana
lmay be said to have inherited his
] taste for travel and adventure from
his father. who accompanied James
| anthony Froude in his trip around the
world in 1854
Lord Elphinstone Is of medium
height. clean sha.ven.. fair complexion
and good looking. He is also very
estates. some OF which have been in
/ his family since the reign of King Da-
vid IL Lord Elphinstone's peerage
was created in 1903. in favor OF Sr
| Alexander Ephnstone. who lost his
/ life four years later IN the battle OF
] Flodden Field, II is ever since ms
| time that the Lords Elphinstone nave
made their home at Carbefry Tower:
at Musselburgh. on the west side of
"a Hill which rises near the coast. at a
point where the River Esk flows into
the Firth Of Forth Close by Is the
Lord E'lUhinStOns, fell.
i The thirteenth Lord Elphinstone was
noted for his good looks, and during
accession of queen Victoria; fell in
love with her. his devotion becoming
! so apparent that the government OF
the day thought 1t well TO SEND me
Z young peer, who was captain OF tie
I Horse Guards. in command OF the SOW
creisn's escort. and as such In almost
constant attendance upon the roy s,s
lady, off to India, where he snent the
remainder of his days, first as Gov
ernor of Madras. and then of Bombay,
rendering such splendid service durlng
the great Mntiny of 1857 that parony
of the United Kingdom was ADDED 70
his Scotch peeraSe. so as to give MN I'm
a seat In the House OF Lords he
never lived, however. to take his seat
in the Gildcd chamber, put dleu OUT ~
India. unmarried.
With regard to the future Lady FL /
phinstone. her father, the Iour. .hernn
Earl of Strathmore and OF k S.,neiio I
r and twenty-second Lord or CLAIMS. ~
the owner of that CLAIMS Castle o.
which SO much has been written u
S connection with its former mysterS;
I The latter no longer exists: that Is
9 to say, there has ceased 70 be any y
l|reason for keeping secret and secluded
. any portion Of this. the most anci en-
inhabted castle In scotiana. lh 'ao :. n re-
, during the last few years peen re-
pcatedly advertised as to let. polh y
e English and American newspapers, ~,
Lord Strathmore would certa n ~, neSt =
$ strangers had the fortunes and homo ono
!. of his house necessitated the preserVa
ton Of any secret c an eastle ~ ofe
! time did exist. and it is understoot
" to have been in connection WIN so son, -
human monstrosity or. m ma s. more al Dor,
Lin 1901, and, according to Scottish ira
5 dition, that earl's eldest child. Wh'
should, strictly speaki'n nst naVe Of TIN tn
'esded to his father ofs ns Of hi
: second son, In support of this story,
/ is worth noting that nothlng Is s,v ref erv
y ed OF the, so-ca lled aGlam,ff ,,rv s viii
IL during the last hundred years It ma
furnished the theme for no ead g, Q
speculation, 1t may pc po Q dbii1tv ~ y
fhaf 'h Rri Gd A ana Of the continent
T,nrope AFFORD several we'll known N
l stances where eldest sons sons i norh the Z
. monstrosities or VINO alnns n lnatic hav
e eeen an,er'fy a aee cassed dead ths
! brthright passing t. the neSt f. li III
Perhaps the most notalhd5e case son o nf m n
Y Second Nstiol a. Duke Of Qucensberry In tn
i reign of Queen Anne. .,nan, !
. Whoever ne nneanpya =, o 3 leis Gast :
! nav have been. it is understood th ,,a
p as as Wien, ouriously enopgh, one or q
Il two of the proyincial phpeftps e d dem Ia
Of Of a .Lord Glanis,' sho was certainl