The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-10
hf. "a MARaUIsE die EoNrENoy.

M pointed colonei Of Of the ' Cold id
carr stream Guards. the colonelcy
his na ns with VIII. it notable addition 10
-, ,an n, OF the British military forces
IN IN ~, oaoa wa. anu while stationed Mt OF
IN IA, attracted ., some little attention
any intercourse whatsoever win his
Erandncphcw. the Earl or Yarmonth
Mho was at the time IN the United
n ,,,n1, The very name of Lord Var
,sou.h mas always had much the same
effect upon him as the Droyerhioj rnf1
rag on the bull - 60
r,r L9rd WNWi VILLA like Field Marshal Sir
ana ana served during tho eariy parlI OF
Tue Crimean War as midshipman.
SSa a ELY, before the restoration of peace
with n commission IN the Coidstrea m
Ioiiuards. and subsequently served in
canada on the stan. also in Egypt. and
was Tor i've years King Edwards Lieu
Is younger. brother of the NTH Mar
tuuis of HEREFORD, that is to say. or that
marquis M ID who was despoiled BY the Will
almost the whole Of tho once iarS g.,
fortune belonging TO the mar9iisats
The fourth Marquis Of Hereford was
on, oil the most notable figures of Eng
i i,;i and continental life from 1920 TO
ssolEpe FOR Thackeray's Marquis OF
Steyne." In Vanity Fair" Ills father.
ne ne tnird marquis. had married the
beautiful and fascinating Maria Fagni-
am BY this union the third MARQUIS
lad two sons, viz. the fourth MARQUIS
ana ana Lord Henry Seymour who spent
junction with tho sons OF King Iouis
philippe, he founded the paris Jockey
CLUB dying unmarried in 1858.
Maria Fagniani. during her marriage
20 Inc third marquis, gave birth TO
during the two or three years thai iii
Intercourse between England and
france was Interrupted by war. aud
people of note. was detained as n quasi
prisoner of state in Paris by the frat
fE ;npIanm VILE VILE her husband was In
sibiy have been the father Of this this son SON.
The third marquis however. was 80
devoted TO his wife that he never took
MY '1', steps TO repudiate the paternity.
Gut he was fully aware that trouble
would be made by the other members
Or the Seymour family. So this SON OF
ms wife was brought up by the mar.
SSWul n2Ins under the name of Richard
Henry Seymour, was passionateiy fond
OF their lovely mother and always
io nyaded H. it tha d. Wallace ms much
icrtford was one of the closest frienus
or Napoleon III. and when he died in
i,s,,S AZ Paris just before the war.
<,
found that he had bequeathed his al
together colossal fortune to his half
brother Richard Wallace. his will ex-
piieitly stating that 1T was in recog-
milton of hts affection. and above ali
OF his entire and unsclfish devotion to
our mother. Ragley Hall. In York
SIRE s,. ana small amount OF entalled
property, yielding an Income of some
$4,000. which could not be nlianated,
WAS left 10 his cousin. the Ofth mar
gus; WHO VIC was q general in the army.
ltolu Una mpefiain 10 Queen Victoria.
ana At one time equerry to the Prince
Consort 9 ILL.,
What the fourth marquis meant by
inc "unselhsh love" of Richard Wal
iace IS that the latter In order 10
been content to forego his right to The
status and style or Lord Richard Sey-
imour, and 10 pass as a man of no
For since Richard Wallace had been
porn TO the marchoncss during her
marriage TO the third marquis. and the
latter had never denied the paternity,
klchard was thoroughly entitled TO the
status Of his legitimate son. There is
NJ ordinary court Of law in England
winch could have deprived him Of that
standing. Bit had Richard Wallace
accepted II. it would have involved his
pretension TO Succeeding his bro Their.
The fourth Lord iiertford. in the mar
g 1,,,:,i. and the other ,peerages. in
Guiding the I:arldOm or Yarmouth, the
Hlscouniy OF lScauchamp, and the two
Baronies Of Conway. In that eveut the
other members OF the house OF Sey-
mour would have submitted a petition
TO the Committee or Privileges of tho
House of Lords. designed 10 show that
Rlchard, having been horn towards the
close Of an enforced separation of more
than two years Of his mother from her
husband, could not possibly be tile
latters offspring. and was therefore
disqualified from succession to the
pecraSe and from summons by the