The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-10
NAMED AS COLONEL OF.
. COLDSTR EAM GUARDS

MARQUIS Of IIertford. II IS a as hi,r
nov nov, ms case would have been decided
Privileges. But Richard Wnlince lind
Iaf TOO mitch reverence for his mothers
name to permit 1t TO become a sub.
Joct OF discussion. @ [.
During the war of 1870 he spcnt
fnuch OF his newly acquired wealth in
founding and maintaining ambulanccs
tS Sc d ine french CHI, army and In feeding
French people In The beieaEnered
FRENCH capual. At the close of tho war
INC French government bestowed upon
MIN the communicating OF tho Legion
OF Honor. and gave his name to a Paris
street, while Queen Victoria knighted
MIN; Sir Richard then went to Eng
brothers. vast estates. But while he
himself was received with tho utmost
Sordiality and distinction, no found all
doors closed TO his wife, Lady Wallace.
owing to the fact that nc had married
her after his only son by her had grown
s ap e h did everything In his power 10
etety, but without avail. notwithstand-
Ing the influence of King Edward. then
d adii Of Nyaies. IN his behalf tho boy
S1i ~, oeinE LED = by the socially ail-power-
80 completely dcspoiled for his sake.
omeen Victoria absolutely refused TO
receiHe h,er. either officially oil. private
". English society followed their SOW
thseis ms suit, and tho only member OF
the English royal family. who always
fentod her with the Utmost distinc-
frederick, who never went to England
! 81. W making aE point Of calling on
Lay Ma ll!, and usually lunched with
Hcr ana with Sir Richard
In his efforts TO propitiatc people in
tnSinnd towards his wife. Sir Richard
lent to the nation, for cxhib! Son at THO
i;ethnal Green Museum, The whole OF
ny his brother, the fourth Lord Hert-
ford. and which was at the TING pro-
badly the finest private collection of
Kind and another IN the world For
MS Queen Victoria bestowed upon him
hea Pa69neses But MS ta was another
though his only son had been legiti-
mixed In France by his parents tasdy
marriage. yet that he was i!lcgitImate
IN the eyes of English law, and could
no. succeed to the baronetcy. Then, too.
this only son. who had served with
considernble gallantry as lieutenant
Of French Cuirassiers throughout the
Franco German War OF 1870 made n
marriage which SO greatly dlsplcased
his parents, that they cast him OF, and
ne n. predeceascd them. without becom-
When Sir Richard. (who amongst
other benefactions to Paris had en-
d 90 ea,, that city with some hundreds
Iound that he had LEFT his vast and
priceless art collections, not 10 the Eng
i nen nation nation as everybody had sunposed.
MS wife. ntimating that she knew
better than anyone else what his wishes
were In connection herewith. To tho
chiidren of his dead son he left annui-
ties sufhcient to keep them in COM
fort, though not in afiiuence. The whole
property. save for these lcgacies,
was became apparent when some time
after his death she presented tho en-
tire art collection to the English ma
London residence. HeTtford House. In
Manchester Square, for use as a
museum. He had been unwilling TO
give ., the collection himself to the ma
be presented to the English people by
his wife. who had been treated with
such contumely by the English people,
who had virtually closed their doors
against her
Lady Wallace did not very long sur
1--WE y ner husband and when she died
husbands entire fortune and estates
(exccpting the art collection, which she
had previously bestowed TO the Eng
fish governmenD to her husbands and
her own private secretary, John Muir
ray Scott, son of DIR John Scott nm
H Hnis, physician established AT
Sir Richard and Lady Wallace by his
care OF the latter when she had land
ed az Boulognc completely Frustrated
pT sue sne s4fTerin r.; Of very stormy
private secretary, MS her chief legatce.
and as the principal executor OF her
Will, also as her representative in the
transfer OF the world famed Wallace
collections to the English nation, was
created baronct. and now owns most
OF the estates OF. the HEREFORD mar
guisate, In England, ireland, and on the
Continent. excepting Bagatclle. In the
Bois de Boulogne, which he has sold
10 The city of Paris.
(Copyright, 1911. by the Brentwood
Company