The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-04
LADY NORTHCOTF,.HAS
ROMANTIC CAREER.
~ LA MARaUIsE DE FoNTENoY.
r ADf NoRrHCoTE. who has just

ny la MARaUIsE DE FoNTENoY.
In Api N0RTHCOTE. who has just
been left widow. through the
IL untimely death of her husband.
the former Governor General Of
Australia, can boast OF a singularly
romantic career. In the various Peer
ages and standard works of reference,
the name of her family will be looked
LOT In vain. She is everywhere de-
serioed merely as. Alice. adopted
daughter Of Lord Mountstephen," the
great Canadian railroad king, and no
other information is vouchsafed con-
corning her parentage.
rms Is due TO tho fact that her child
iioou. spent in Canada. was far from
hhappy she was the Cinderella of an
A ,ins clergyman's family, the di-
vine IN question and his wife hailing
I from Vermont. where their daughter
iiNnse vas born. In some way the late
, .duS Mountstephen became acquainted
win Alice, took fancy to her. and
as me girls life was not precisely rose
eolored. and she was more or less the
SQUIRE douleur" Of her family, she
rime with the Mountstephens. The
parents raised objections to this. de-
SlarlnS that II resulted In Alice's
n nous being left ,undone where
n npom Lazy Mountstephen started by
p p5g servant to take the girls
place in the clergyman's family. and
Ultimately made an arrangement to
adopt the girl altogether. on the un-.
VIE. and the remainder OF their fami-
~, renounce all further connection and
relationship with her. At any rate. il
resulted In the severance OF all Alice's
res Win her family, and in her regu-
lar adoption by Lord and Lady Mount
stephen, who settled a very large for
tune upon her when she married Lord
Northcote
!. She is very good looking. extreme
iy generous, and universally popular
woman. who won general favor in In
ala when her husband was Governor
OF Bombay, and In Australia. when he
aLIlerwards became Governor General OF
the Commonwealth.
Lord Northcote. who recently rented
on long lease Eastwell Park, the
oeautitnl kenush place Of Lord Gerard.
mas succumbed to the effects OF the
Indian and Australian climates. which
completely undermined his constitu-
ton, and when he passed through New
l0rk couple OF years ago on his way
nome from the Antipodes to England.
after having assisted in Welcoming the
united States battleships in Australia.
was apparent to his friends here
.hat ne was very sick man. Small in
stature. though weighted with big
mustache he was the second son OF the
tate Lord Iddesleigh. the best liked and
most respected leader that the Con-
serSaslve party in ENGLAND has had in
tary of State for Foreign Affairs. died
suddenly OF heart failure at Lord Salis
ourys house. during a conversation
with the marquis.
Lord Northcote hrst came to this
country in 1871 as secretary OF the
special embassy of the late Lord Ripon
IN connection with the settlement OF
.ne Aiabama treaty. and afterwards
secretary. His elder brother, OF course,
inherited the Earldom OF Iddesleigh;
out queen Victoria in 1887 conferred a
oaronetcy upon Lord Northcote, for the
express purpose. as she declared, OF
tord Northcote," statesman to whom
she had been deeply attached. A few
months before her death, Queen Vic
Ioria. IN giving her approval to the
nomination of the baronet to the Office
OF Governor OF Bombay. further con-
ferred upon him peerage, st!pulating
however that he should be known as
Lord Northcote.
oliver Northcote, married a sister of
Ha milton and Stuyvesant Fish. Of New
YORK. and for many years was in bust
ness in Wall Street. He left son and
tied their American relatives, the son
having spent some time couple of
seasons ago at Newport with the Stuy-
vesant Fishes. Another OF Lord North
cote's brothers, the Hon. Amyas North
cote, also married an American girl.
daughter OF the late James G. Dud-
ley, OF Frankfort. KY and is a partner
In the firm OF Adds & Northcote of
Chicago.
Lady Gregory. who arrived on Friday
last in this country. by way of Boston,
TO supervise the rehearsal OF the plays
TO be presented in the United States
ny the company known as "the Irish
Players" is at the head OF a movement
for the revival of Irish literature and
language, and director OF the Abbey or
National Theatre at Dublin. 1t was in
the latter capacity that she became
engaged couple OF years ago in
controversy with Lord Aberdeen.
Nlceroy Of ireland. to interfere with
her production Of George Bernard
Shaw's play entitled The Showing UP
or Blanco Posnet." She is a dramatlst
core S behts a daughter of Squire
Dudley Persse, OF Roxborough, in Gal
way. and one who in her youth was
famed as one of the beauties of the
viGeregal court OF Dublin.
Related to the Earls OF Ross and of
Clancarty, and also to Lord Clanmor-
ris she Is the widow OF old Sir Will
liam Gregory. who became member of
Parliament more than three-score wears
ago, In the fac0 Of the opposition of
of the most charming hut wrongheaded
men in London society He held very
important offices under the crown. in
Guiding the Govefnorship of Ceylon.
where. by the way. he entertained King
Edward as Prince OF Wales in 1876, and
enjoyed the friendship and regard OF
men so different as Peel. Beaconsieid.
Palmerston, and Gladstone. But he at
tracted most attention by his enthusi-
astic advocacy of the Confederacy, dur
ing the Civil War in this country, and
afterwards of Arab, and OF his rebel