The Washington herald., 1911-10-22
DAUGHTERS OF THREE PEERS
WE'D SAME DAY AND HOUR

DAUGHTERS OF THREE PEERS
WED SAME DAY AND HOUR
The custom for young girls of high life
in Britain to act as bridesmaids to theIl
most intimate friends will be departed
| from in the case OF three daughters o.
peers-Lady Helen Gordon-Lennox, Lad!
Cecil Brownies, and Miss Lettice Annes
! ley, all three of whom were married
this week in London churches, and al
the same hour.
So numerous are the friends and rela
| tives who wish to- attend the nuptial.
OF Lady Helen Gordon-Lennox with Lore
Percy that the ,bride-to-be has beer
obliged to choose one of the largest
church edifices in all London, ST. Peter s
for the ceremony. The King and Queer
will be present. The King. who was tht
guest of Lady Helen's father, the Duke
| of Richmond and Lennox, for salmon
fishing at Fochabers, came to town or
purpose to attend the wedding. Lore
! Percy, the bridegroom, is the son anC
heir Of the Duke of Northumberland.
| took occasion, when announcing the en-
gagement, to explain that through thi:
| match two of the best known duca
houses of England will be united.
Lady Cecil Brownies is one of the hand
some twin daughters of Lord and Lady
Kenmare. Her fance. Mr.. Thomas
Vesey, is the younger brother of LORD
Vesey. and serves in the Irish Guards.
Miss Lettice AnnesIey is the daughter
OF Lord Valencia, and her marriage to-
day with Capt Salvin Rowlby will take
place at Holy Trinity Church, in Sloane
street.
A small windtan will accrue to the
French treasury in the shape of legacy
duties on the will OF the late Marquise
d. d'Avessans, who died the other day al
Chamans. near Chantilly in Franco, al
the age of nlnety-fve. She leaves prac-
tically all her fortune to a friend, the
Comtesse de la Naulx, a lady of eighty,
who is in no degree related to her. The
estate is valued at 100000 francs and
the duties will b. at the rate of 80 per
cent. A nephew. who has been left the
tumble-down horse where the late mar
quise spent the last seventy years of
her life. is contestIng the will His dis
appointment can readily be understood
He pleads undue influence, but he has
little or no chance, as the friendship Of
the Marquise dAvessans and the Com
tesse de la VaulX dates back half a CEN
tury. The deceased made her will five
years ago. and since then she has been
in the habit OF driving every day to the
COmtesse's neighborhOod, spending the
afternoon with her.
The fortune Of the late marquise is
the result of thrift She was the only
daughter of a naval officer, who was a
midshipman at TIE battle OF Trafalgar.
The birth OF daughter was great dis
appointment to him. Possibly on this ac-
count she always wore masculine attire,
at least a compromise between the gar
ments of both sexes When last seen
abroad she wore long frock coat in
light Scotch homespun and knee breeChes,
Her father left her about 10000 francs
and a farm. This was sixty years ago.
She lived on the rent of the farm. The
interest on the rest OF her fortune was
reinvested every quarter by her solici-
tors. Within the last thirty years she
had further reduced her expenses, VOW
ing that as long as the republic lasted
in France she would not give any more
employment to people than She could
help. Her aged hou ,ekeeper. under her
will. gets 100 francs, and her old serv-
ants some Of whom have been with her
forty years, are paid their wages until
the end of the month.
The testatriX was a Crusted conser-
vatlve descended from a long line of
ancien regime admirals. Her parents
when children. 'emigrated" with her
grandparents to London in the early
DAYS Of the revolution. but never there
knew the trials OF poverty nor the ne
cessity OF appealing to the kind heart
of their Irish banker, Colgan. They had
large estates in the West Indies worked
by slaves and under Overseers they had
appointed themselves. AS in an in
iquitous moment Of Opportunism the rev.
Olutionists turned a deaf ear to the cry
of Perish the colonies rather than keep
up slavery" these 'emigrants' Contin-
ued to draw their revenues in London,
and to PIT by money.
Early in the sos of the eighteenth
century. a great grandfather of the late
marquise brought over from Martinique
in the frigate he commanded. a NJ.
Tascher de La Pagrie and his daughter.
Rose Josephine. a rather plain. sandy
haired girl. She married a Sieur de
Beauharnais, whom she divorced to be-
come the wife Of the first Napoleon.
and later Empress of the French. The
late Marquise spoke English. which her
grandmother. an Irishwoman by paren-
tage, named Browne, had taught her.
Her hair blackened to the crows wing
hue as she grew old. In her extreme
old age she remained mannish. Wo-
men who have come into being in times
of great public moil and storm are Of
ten so.
The unexpected death of Lord st.
Germans has excited deep and general
sorrow in Cornwall. where he passed
most of his life He owned large es-
tates. both in Cornwall and in Glouces-
tershire. and he was a most generous
and considerate landlord. his relations
with his tenants. no matter in what
walk of life. always being most cor
dial.
Lord Cornwall took no part or inter-
est in British public life, his career
having been stopped by deafness,
which compelled him to leave the navy
at the age of twenty-eight. Later he
served in the foreign Office a number
Of years. He was the fourth son of
the fourth earl Two of his elder
brothers were killed in the Crimea and
third carl died I'm