The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-09
BY LA MARauIsE DE roNTESoY.

\ iR HENRY LYNCH RLOSSE. who is
now crossing this continent from
the Atlantic TO the Pachc coast in
an automobile IS the eleventh baronct
or family which has been settled in
Galway for Hnany hundreds OF years. the
hrst holder OF the baronetcy being Sir
Henry Lynch, member of Parliament
for Galway, in the reign OF King
James, and whose grandfather. Stephen
Lynch. was the Mayor OF Galway under
Henry VIII. The "Blosse" was added
to the name Of Lynch. through the
marriage Of the sixth baronet to the
hetress OF Tobias Blossc. of Little Boil
stead, suffolk.
one Of the most extraordinary mem
hers OF the family is Edward Lynch
Biosse, whose name figures in Burke's
Peerage' Of the present year. as stan
Major OF the Japanese Intelligence
Branch that is to say. as military
SPY. hut who left the English army.
In which he held commission In the
Lancaster regiment, under cloud.
served in the American army at tho
Time OF the Spanish War. and has un !
dersone several sentences OF penal ser
Nitude in England for swindl!ng.
On the last occasion which came un-
der my notice. he was sentenced in
London to three years penal servitudr.
followed BY two years police super
vision. 1t was shortly after LORD
iNitchcner's return from Africa in 1902.
ana some of the frauds which he then
perpetrated We're accomplished by pos
JUST nome from South Africa" swaE
ihs as member OF Kichener's STAFF.
SeFlnE about IN Ii staff officers uni :
form. which he had hired from a Cow
ent Garden costumier for the purpose
OF working his swindles. Accordiu .
to the evidence produced By the Lon
don police. he had lived entirely by
iiaud mere in America and in England
since ne was turned out OF the Eng
!ish army. his only period OF relative
criminal desuetude being during the
lew months that he served in tho
American army in 1895.
lie had married Just after obtaining
ms commission in the English army,
a MISS Eva Brownrigg. daughter OF the
icnr OF st. Judes, Southsea But he
treated her so badly that at length She
came 10 America, obtained a divorce
IN 9outh dakota. and thcn proceeded
10 marry In Chicago man of the name
OF Booth, who within a year Afterwards
became insane. She subsequently, re.
turned 20 England, resumed the name
oil her hrst husband. since the English
law ala not recognize as valid her
Dakota divorce, and little later com
united suicide. by blowing out her
nfains. the name of Captain the Hon.
r. c. Howard. brother of the late Ear,
OF hngham, being connected with the
Tragedy Indeed. according 10 the
testimony at the coroner's INQUEST. II
was shown that she mad killed herself
owing 10 her having been cited as CO.
respondent in 4 suit for divorce brought
"a nj ll
Lady Constance. the captain commItting
suicide on the same day. Cap,n.I
Towards son is the next heir 10 his
cousins EarlGom of Efingham: one o,
the most illustrious of the British
peerage, the second lord having been
Lord High Admiral OF England at tn,
time OF the Spanish Armada.
mere is one OF the Lynch Blosses
i>ate by name, sister of the tenth bar.
| onet, and aunt therefore of the pres.
ent Sir Henry Lynch Blosse. who
adopted nursing as ii profession, and
VINO while employed professionally a,
the Cardiff Iniirmary. became infat.
mated with the stalwart porter of the
establishment. six-foot-two labor
ing man of the name of Lewis pic
and married him. The Lynch Biossf
family. however. have not seen fit ,c
include any record of this union in th.
pages of Burke" and "Debrett" de
voted to their house
Rifaat Pasha hitherto Minister o,
| Foreign Affairs at Constantinople, who
has just been appointed 10 succeed the
| late Naoum Pasha as Ottoman ambas.
sador to France. was at one moment
gazetted as envoy of the Sublime
Porte at Washington, but he decline t
/ TO assume the post owing to It's be
ing so Car away. and secured insteat
the mission OF representing his countr,
at Athens. There he managed Il
| ingratiate himself In a very marked
degree with the reigning family, hi.
! task being facilitated by the fact tina
although a Moslem. he is married tt
very clever and charming Russian
| woman. who remains a member OF the
| Orthodox Church, and who Is a daueht
er of that General Won RennenItamp1
who played so important role during
the Russo-Japanese War. Both Queer
| Olga. and her daughter-in- law, Primo.
| ess Nicholas of Greece are Russian
grand duchesses. and they soon he.
came very intimate with Nine. Rifaat
| The Rifaats while at athens. like.
wise learned to know King Edward
and Qeen Alexandra on the occa
| sion of their visits to Greece, and the
consequence was that when Musurus