The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-07
NEWLY CREATED PEER
is FRIEND OF AMERICA

enabled to we'd sir Edward under her
maiden name.
onslow's new carl fourth Of nil,
line, mas hitherto figured IN the diplo-
matte service az second sccretary of
tShe British embassy At Berlin, and has
81 Petersburg. and in Tangicr. wher,.
hc managed to master Arabic to such
a degree that he was granted a ape-
cial allowance by the government He
IS married 10 the only daughter OF
LORD l'olt!inore. by whom lie mas a
little girl
While hn can trace his ancestry back
to Roger de Ondeslowe, Lord OF Ondcs-
lowe. who ilourishcd in 1891. his more
immediate forbears include Richard
OnSlow, who was Speaker of the House
OF commons during the reign OF King
James L. Another Sir Richard Ons-
low won fame as leader or the Parllu-
/ mentary forces in the civil War and
ttter having vainly urged oliver
cromwell to assume, the crown aud
CHARLES l., assisted in the restoration
OF Charles III. IL is to his son Sir
Arthur onslow however, that the fam
lily may be said 10 he Indebted for its
fortune. For he married the only
child and hciress OF Sir Thomas Foot
Lord Mayor OF London and by spo.
cial act of favor on the part of Charles
H., was permitted to inherit his faith
cr-in-iaw baronctcy. Sir Arthur's cid
est son was advanced to the rank of a
peer of the realm, as Lord Onslow, OF
his retirement from the speakcrship OF
! the House of Commons
some of the Earls of Onslow have
been very eccentric. Thus among the
oddities of the second carl, which for.
tunatcly the present peer does no;
, snare. was his practice of always walk
ing downstairs backwards, with some
times ludicrous consequences to those
VINO were hurrying upstairs.
TIE ancestral home of the Lords Of
Onslow, is at Clandon Park. in Sur
rey. built about go years ago It,
ed. ana seems to date from the time
when 1t was leased by the late carl Ia
I some superstitious people, during his
i. absence in the AntIpodes, as Governor
were they convinced OF It's being haunt
| ed. that the late Marquis of Butte. and
the Society of Psychical Research. OF
which nc was then president, had made
all arrangements with the tenants 10
organize most elaborate nvestiga-
ton of the supernatural visitations at
land from New Zealand just In time ia
stop what he denounced as "all this
nonsense" resumed possession of his
home. and threatened both his former
tenant. as well as Lord Butte and the
members of the l'sychical Research So
| cie;y, with lawsuits for heavy dam
ages If he heard a word moro about
Clandon Park being haunted lie
wound up by addressirs; an indignant
letter to the newspapers, in which he
complained bitterly of the way In
which advantage had been taken CT his
absence on the service of mis- country
in the Antlpodes. to violate the pri-
vacy of his home. adding that as far as
he and his family were concerned they
did not believe in ghosts, and that
most of them slept with loaded re-
volvers by their bedsides and would
not hesitate to shoot 'at any ghost
which sought to play tricks.
The ghost presumably took the hint.
for from that day to this nothing has
been heard or seen of him. and the
periodical exodus of frightened SER
wants that was Of such frequent oc-
| currencc at Clandon while Lord and
Lady Onslow were in New Zealand r.
now thing of the past.
| Copyright. 1911. by tho Brentwood
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