The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-13
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This peer who had served for time
in the royal navy. had been exceed
ingiy wild, and after leaving both the
service and England. in consequence
OF some unpleasant scrape, started out
TO New Zealand. where he met with
all sorts OF hard knocks and queer e&-
periences. earning a precarious iiveli-
hood at odd jobs. in the way of fenc-
ing. ditching. and as farm laborer, un-
I'll he died, as bailif OF provincial
court. a few months after succeeding
TO the honors, leaving q large family
BY his wife, who. far from being a wo-
man OF the humber classes, as has been
alleged In number OF English news
papers that have written about the
matter. was the daughter of an army
oficer OF the name of Evans. scion
OF that Irish family Of which Lord
Carbery Is the chief.
On learning of the death of the tenth
ear! in New Zealand. in practically
| Countess of Seaheld. widow OF the sew
enth earl. and owner OF all the great
! Cgtlvie and Grant estates, was moved
by family pride. and perhaps also by
pity, TO address a letter to tho other
widowed Lady Seaheld out in New
Zealand, offering 10 take charge OF the
! latter's eldest son. the eleventh and
present earl. then mere boy. TO bring
him home to England. and to educate
him in manner BETTING his posi-
ton as eleventh Earl of Seafield with
the understanding that If he conducted
himself we'll. she would make him heir
to the entire Seaheld estates. She in
iimated that she was ready to send
out tutors and servants to bring him
hime from the colonies. and to make
an allowance to his mother. on condi-
tion that the latter, as we'll as his
brother and sisters. would break off
all relations with him.
The young earl's mother. unlike the
Dearest" OF Little Lord Fauntleroy.
declined to entertain this offer She
was one of the leaders of the Saliva
ton Army movement In New Zealand
and came to the conclusion that her
sons religious faith might be imperiled
II ne were brought up by SO worldly a
woman as Caroline. Countess OF sea.
neld SO he was educated in New
Zealand. one of the schools there UNI
dertaking to forego any demand for
his name and his titles on their books
lie was only twenty-five years of age
when he married A young girl whom
he had known from childhood, and who
the daughter of a New Zealand physi-
| clan of the name OF DR.. Joseph II.
Townend. OF Christchurch, New zea-
land.
Not long after this marriage. the
doctor. who was an elderly widower
himself made most sensational match
leading to the altar Miss Anne ,Quayle
Moore, the greatest heiress in New
I
died, leaving to her a fortune of some
S20,O00.000. Both she and her hus-
band were devoted to the young Earl
and Countess of Seafeld, and made them
very handsome allowance. The doc
tor is now dead, and Mrs. Townend,
who is considerably over sixty years
of age, has already intimated that she
intends to bequeath her entire for
tune TO the young earl.
Lord and Lady Seafleld visited Eng
land for the first time some ten years
ago, and spent some time on the Sea-
field estates, he being hailed as the
chief of the great Clan of Grant, but
visiting his ancestral home. namely,
Castle Grant. an ordinary tourist
his grandaunt, tho owner of the place,
being absent at the time on the Con-
tinent. Before he left Europe, the old
countess, who had learned OF his pres
ence in England, and of his visit to
her castle, offered him, through her
lawyer, considerable allowance, on
condition that he would remain away
from the United Kingdom, and If he
remained in Europe. would restrict
himself to the Continent. He indignant
ly rejected this offer.
1t is characteristic of the imperious
strong minded and naughty old count
ess. that his attitude, so far from ang-
ering pleased her. and in spite of
the fact that he holds no intercourse
with her whatever, 1t is regarded as
certain, by all knowing her. that when
she dies. II Will be found that she has
| bequeathed to him the whole OF tho