New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-12-01
NEW LORD ''VN|DDLE"
Now Owner of the Goblin Hall
and of the YeSter Luck.

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The new and eleventh Marquis OF Tweed
dale. whose name should be pronounced
rfit we're spelled "Twiddle," was in this
country last year under the name ana
courtesy title Of Earl OF Clifford which re-
suited IN a good deal of misunderstanding
Al the time as there were many persons
hero who COMPOUNDED him with the much
older peer. me Lord Clifford. who won the
Victoria Cross under Lord Wolseley IN
Africa and who was afterward Governor
~ Western Australia. Lord Tweeddale is
barely twenty-eight years OF age, unmar-
rlod retired quite recently from the lieu
tenancy Of the LIST Regiment OF Llte
Guards. on the reserve force OF which,
however, he is still carried. and Is one
OF the bright particular stars OF the
bachelors club. in London.
The rumors TO the effect that his success
,ion 70 the maruuisate and TO his other
scottish honors will be assailed by ms
. remote kinsman and neighbor, William
Hav-NeNton Of Newton Hall. County Had"
0ineton. n veteran OF the Crimean War
srd Of the Indian Mutiny. need not be
taken seriously, having been discussed IN
@ sort OF desultory fashion al the death OF
each of the last three Marquesses or
Tuceddalc When the sixth marquis died
without issue I'm 1877 the Scotch honors re-
yerted 10 George. second son of John Hay
Of Newhau. who himself was the son OF
Younger son OF the second marquis. II is
alleged that the marriage of John Hay. OF
NewbaU. father of the seventh marquis
Was not really legal owing 10 the fact
that his wife. Dorothy Hayhurst, had been
nreviouslv married 10 a sergeant In some
scottish regiment of infantry, and that as
she WAS not a widow and had not been
divorced. she was not free 20 wed. In the
event Of the iusgitmacy of her children
bv John Hay of Newhsl, the various
scottish peerages should have gone TO the
sons and erandsons Of John Hays younger
brother Richard. who assumed the addi'
t,onal name OF Newton, on succeeding 10
tho Newton Hall property. William Hay
Newton. the present owner Of Newton Hall,
is his lineal representative.
We're the latter 10 establish his claim.
which is improbable in the extreme, the
new peer would Of course, forfeit his mar
ouisste and his Scottish honors but he
would stin retain all the family estates, as
Tweeddale bestowed upon his father by
Queen Victoria. and which carries with II
q seat in the House Of Lords. There Is no
actual evidence in the possession OF the
Hav-Newtons on which 10 base any petit
ton 70 the Committee OF Privileges or the
House Of Lords The whole affair is
more q matter Of Scottish legend than Of
actual fact. and. this being the case. 1t Is
ofI
ton. OF Newton Hall, who is not particu-
larry rich. will care to risk the big ex-
pense. amounting probably TO some slD'Wo
or $4,000. which would be needed 10 push
Lis more than doubtful claims.
The entailed estates, into the possession
If which ord Tweeddale has come through
tho death or his father, extend over 1900
acres in England and Scotland, and they
include Yester. a wonderful place in Had
Giugtonshjre. which was already accounted
very old when King Alexander III OF
Scotland. In 1888, visited Sir Hugh de Gill
,,.rd in his castle OF Yester. 10 take coun-
sci with him how 10 overthrow the Nor
,,eeian invaders. This historic interview
bore fruit I'm the defeat which overlook tho
Norwegian King H.akon and his army; and
Sir Walter Scott mas immortaized the in
,erview between Alexander III and Sir
Buer dc Clifford at Yester Castle In his
room "Marmion.'
This Sir Hugh. from whom the ne" MAT
oufs of Tweeddale Is descended, was cele-
Inv Ted As a Aecromancer. and is asserted 10
have created with one stroke of his magic
wand the so-calied Goblin Hall OF the olo
castle Of Yester-not TO be COMPOUNDED with
tho relatively new castle close by. Goblin
HALL. though the remainder OF the older
,aetle has fallen into ivy-mantled ruin. still
.,.i.ts q huge stone, vaulted and roomy
chamber. with an immense fireplace az the
further end and a we'll Of unfathomable
d.pth i'm ono sombre corner OF the cham
her. a portion Of which IS apparently heWn
out Of the living rock.
Sir Hugh. whom Sir Walter Scott de-
scribcs I'm his "Marmion" as 'the dreaded
Varlock Of Clifford" and as the Elhn
Knight" is believed throughout Scotland
to have placed a spell upon the Goblin Hall,
10 tine effect that any man who dared 10
interfere with its symmetry should come
10 a violent end No one ever ventured to
tampor with II until the elder brother Of
tho late marquis did so. In the lifetime Of
his father. and while still known as the
Earl Clifford. ne expressed ridicule for tho
superstition. and cleared away several of
tho steps leading up TO the hall Within
twelve months afterward no met his
death i'm endeayoring TO save the life OF a
laboring man who was about TO be crushed
: s. tree he was telling in the vicinity Of
the castle The man escaped, but the tree
l'llod Lord Clifford