The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-13
ny LA MARauIsE DE FoNrENoY.
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Is Impending may DC SdIueIta
from the announcement that a
marriage Is about to take place
between General Sir Archibald Hunter
and the widow OF that second Lord
Inyerclyde who succeeded his father in
the presidency of the Cunard Steamship
Company Mary, Lady Inyerclyde. was
Miss Ferguson. and having no children
by her first husband inherited all his
large fortune, the peerage and the
baronetcy going to his younger brother,
James, the present Lord 1nyerclyde.
Sir Archer Hunter has always been re-
garded as a Kitchener man, par eN-
cellence, as his principal lieutenant and
most devoted follower, who always IN
sisted that he would never we'd until
his chief did SO that the announce
ment OF his own imminent marriage
must be regarded as prelude TO that
OF the victor of Omdurman.
| Archie Hunter, who may be said TO
| have inaugurated his term of office as
Governor of Gibraltar by welcoming TO
! the Rock the fugitive King of Portu-
| gal. with the two Queens and the Duke
| five feet eight. and distinguished by
/ an appearance OF hazel-eyed youth and
an extraordinary faculty for pleasing
every one. beneath which somewhat DE :
Iall matters professional, and deep.
1 rooted opinion as to the necessity OF
| the British being always victorious and
1 always honest. He has been seyerai
Indeed. when hit at Kosheh.. in the
soudan by bullet after. 1t had passed
! through a pair OF field glasses and
their holders head in front OF HIM the
/ doctors wanted TO amputate his arm;
/ He refused the offer. and after several
/ years of repeated operations, massage.
| electricity and weight exercise, his
/ bride arm is now almost as useful
as before.
With the possible exception of Kitoh-
\ ener himself, there is no Englishman
! who may be said TO know so much
about the desert Arabs of the soudan,
or the blacks OF Central Africa. as as
Hunter: who was In turn Governor o.
ti district Of Nubia. Dongola and
4 Berber, during the fifteen, years that
4 preceded the battle OF Omdurman. ae
/ was a major general before ne was
forty, thanks largely TO the iace th "a,
i the hghting on the Nile. For fourteen
! years he was always on the trontier-.
4 fourteen years OF bugle and bullet, oy
4 night and by day, always on the 9, au'
i of every English soldier. and of every
! black man or Arab who has ever
4 served under him.
y Needless to say that when Lo t,,a
4 Kitchener was transferred from .ne
4 lSoudan TO South Africa, at the time Q,
j, the Boer War. he took Hunter with =
!, him. where Archie did SO wen as 70
Twin promotion to the rank Of lieuten-
ant-general. And when kltchener pc.
came gensralissimo IN - ln tha sont umr1
army Of that great Oriental depenid zen Z
.IHe left India about the same tune a
Ibis chief: and when General Slr tre T.
erick Forester Walker was .oseI ~. hIs
BY that illness which resulted IN M !.
death the other day. Archie Hnn ~ !.
"A who from financial point OF view Wa wa
born. with a silver spoon n ms - Ih1 1snv.
was appointed to succeed MIN as NJ Y
ernor of Gibraltar, with q sa!a ~ : = q
a somely furnished residences, ana !. a. !,
sorts of allowances and prerogallVeos
} 1t is a command the imporsahfra -
which It Is tmp9sgstible, . now Amos
4 at the head OF the list OF full gsHeIra ~,
z the only one above him being L .13,,
Methuen at present so p their riya
ciaims 10 the baton Of field marspal
{ there can be no question; for Whera "a
4 Archie Hunter has heen universat, !,
successful in the field, Lord Meth ,.an,
although extremely poputsaf' nas 80
as invariably unfortunate.
Lord Richie, Of Dundee. who NJ, a hw IS
: the other day, in this country 9S ,v ~
5 White Star liner Majestic; ana an ~ y \
| a - /,
M at.Si is married to a daughter OF IN
Louis Jennia ags g " th was editor
n \. fha 'ne " York Times, dying in Eng
Ia land d. where he was associated pp ohhit,l
salIy Win I9Ga Ranq IL? at ea9s' pr
vata Secretary and campaign mana 1aa
9. ger, The widowed Mrs Louis = I'm en-
t nngs, that Is t. !. say the m Famous i
iam. Younger days for her beaut Y, y Z
S Madeline Henriques, daughter OF Si'As e.
~ Lord Ritchie is the second holder rs
his father for hls-ssryaises az Ia G author
more more social legislation for the ee nae
tie aseTlng a slnssss a tan ssass
9 ta t,sr. salesman Of his day, IT va
Bestowed t upon him at the tine = INTO MTG
he, along with Lord Geofge f aithdre,
Y and The Duke OF Devonshlre, Witnaar'ss !,
!. from is Tie tie Raifanr cabinet, in token O Y