The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-07
OF HONOR
NOW NUMBER 47.767

iieutenhnt IN the royal Sussex regt-
ment. in which he served his way up
from the ranks. winning his comm!s-
sion. along with two medals and a
number OF clasps. on the battle felda
OF South Africa, during the last Boer
war. He is u gallant officer In every
sense OF tho word. whose only trouble
is an impecuniosity, due TO the en-
travagance of ancestors. who allen
ated the extensive family estates. and
any woman with money who becomes
his w!te.--for he Is unmarried-will
become invested with an ancient title,
and q still more ancient name.
The baronetcy dates from the reign
OF James J.. n while one Goring.
namely. Sir william. was gentleman OF
the Privy Chamber to Edward vi,
another. John Goring. of Lancing,
iiourished in the reign OF Henry III.
as Lord OF. the Manor OF Gor!ng. in
Sussex. %
1t Is even poss.p!e that the bride
OF sir Forster Goring may awake one
day to find herself u pecress OF the
owned the Earldom OF Norwich. and
the Baiony OF Goring. created by
James /. and Charles j. respectively.
and there has always been a question
as 10 whether these peerages are real
~ extinct, or whether they belong to
the present chief OF the house OF Cor
Ing. Very large sums OF money are
needed TO prove rights TO peerages.
especially when the latter happen TO
be of ancient creation. Indeed, were
n not for this question of expense, the
Committee Of Privileges Of the House
OF Lords. to which the crown refers
these petitions OF right for investi-
cation. would be overwhelmed with
the mountain of work that would be
imposed upon them.
Neither the late baronet, nor yet
his Two immediate predecessors, have
had any money TO spare for the pur-
pose of asserting their rights to the
Two peerages. Indeed. the late baronet
was SO poor that when he succeeded
to his cousins baronetcy in 1887, he
was earning his living by keeping
a small tobacconist's shop, in Silver
street, Tamworth. and was actually
weighing out snuff when ne received
the news that he had inherited the
family title. AS q young man. he had
gone out to New Zealand. where his
father. Forster GorIng, married to a
daughter of Lord Avonmore, was pri-
vate secretary to the Governor OF the
colony. old Sir George Grey. He saw
a good deal Of lighting during the
MAORI War. in New Zealand, and then
afterwards, finding thatzhis father had
no money to give him. and
thet there was no office tina
appealed to him, he enlisted as a pri-
vate soldier in the Suffolk regiment,
was transferred to the Staffordshire
regiment. in which he served for g nurie
Der OF years In India, retiring as SER
geant-najor, with a pension of 81 a
week. This was. OF course. not sufa-
cient to maintain his large family,
and so he started his tobacconists
shop at Tamworth.
The new baronet has also seen a good
deal of New Zealand lie, and was
managing a sheep run of his uncle.
Walter Woods Johnston, former Pre-
mier Of New Zealand. when the Boer
War broke out. and he enlisted for
service in South Africa. Il
The family estates, situated in Sus-
sex. have all been sold. and while
some OF them are now in the posses
sion of Sir William Grantham, the old
family country seat OF Highden, is now
owned by General GodIgan.
Sir Forster Is the twelfth baronct.
the tenth, Sir Craven Goring al
though n retired colonel of the army,
was in such straitened circumstances,
that in 1893 he came to the fore as all
unsuccessful applicant for the $1,000
a year appointment of City Marshal.
Copyright, 1911. by the Brentwood
Company