The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-04
~ La MARQUIsE DE FoNTENOY.
ORD FENERSHAM. who is about
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ORD FEVERSHAM. who As about
to celebrate his golden wedding.
Is one of the patriarchs Of the
British peerage, and, l may adj.
OF the most ornamental portion there.
Of for his daughters have been cele-
brated for their beauty and his cons
for their good looks. In fact there
have rarely been more comely women
at the court of St James than Lady
Helen Duncombe. married to Sir Edgar
RinSent Lady Mabel The wife wife Of sir
ulrica. who after fitting the present
Bishop of London. was led to the altar
by Colonel the Hon. Everard Barring.
and. above all the late Lady Hermione
Duchess of Leinster. whose fame for
perfect loveliness may be described
as having been European. Lord Fever
sham's eldest son died in 1851. leaving
a son. who bears the title OF Viscount
Helmsley, member Of Parliament for
the Thirsk Division of Yorkshire and
Mho Is the husband of Lady Marjorie
Greville, daughter of Lord and Lady
Warwick.
Another son of Lord Feversham, who
sim survives, and who represented
Cumberland for number OF years in
Parliament, besides holding an hon
orary colonelcy in the army, spent a
number Of years in this country. where
he may be said TO have sown his Wild
oats. y few weeks after attaining his
ma jority he was foolish enough TO
marry a music hall artistic, profess
sionaily known as Nellie Lamar" but
| whose real name was Nellie Lewis.
The ceremony took place. not at
st. Georges, Hanover Square, London.
and ii is possibly due to this lack of
any religious ceremony that the peer
ages" and other similar works NJ ref
erence contain no record of the union.
Of course the latter gave great of
| Tense TO old Lord Feversham. who Is
ancestry. and the liberal allowance
| which the Hon. Hubert Duncombe mad
until then received was promptly
dropped lie thereupon got still more
! heavily into debt than he had been
before, and finally his eXtravaSance,
coupled with that of his wife, landed
him in the Bankruptcy Court. The old
. earl then agreed to allow him an an
nUity of $1,000 year on condition
that he would leave England with his
wife and live in the United states
Society appears To have ignored their
presence in this country. They drift
ed around from one city TO another.
drinking to the very dregs the full
! bitterness Of life in third and fourth
rate boarding houses. Finally. they
decided that if they We're TO starve
they might just as well do so in
England and they returned to London.
where Mrs Duncombe resumed her
music hall profession, and. | am sorry
to add. her questionable mode of life
of her antenuptial days Finally. the
Hon. Hubert was forced to commence
"A suit for divorce against her on the
( ground OF the betrayal of his honor.
and naming as correspondent Mr..
Henry Yates, obtaining heavy dam
ages for alienation of affections.
1T is only fair 10 add that Hubert
/ Duncombe has completely redee me
his past. He served with such gal.
lantry during the South African Wal
as colonel of Yromanry that he wop
The Distinguished Service Order. ard
the only thing against him is that ov :
ing to the miserieS of his sojourn In
America, he has always retained II GER
/ tain amount of prejudice against every
thing American, prejudice TO which
he gave expression on frequent occa :
sions when sitting in Parliament
Lord Feversham is the chief. first
came to the fore in the reign of Henry
", when its name occurs as lord of
the manor of Ivington in the records
OF the herald's visitations of the county
of Buckingham. The founder Of the
| fortunes OF the house was. however.
Sir Charles Duncombe. who was Lord
Mayor of London in 1908. He died an
married. leaving his great wealth to
Anthony Duncombc, the son of his
younger brother and Anthony was, by
reason of his wealth and of the po-
l!tical influence connected Herewith.
raised to the peerage by George H. MS
| Lord Feversham, in l7i7. His children
predeceased him. and in consequence
thereof his fortune went to his sis-
accordance with the terms of his nm :
| cle's Will, assumed the name and arms
| of Duncombe. His sister became Ouch.
ess of Argyll, and figures In Sir Wal.
| ter Scotts novel, THE Heart of Mid
l Lothian" II was this first Lord Eeyer.