The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-02
STORY OF CONVERSION
AT LEAST PREMATURE

and has learned and digcsted much
"hich ne believes may be OF us. 10 his
native iapd. IL is with toe ouiect OF
turning these notions waich ne mas
imbided here to goou account in HI.
own country. that ne mas ident.ne,i
himself win the Labor party OF Hun.
sary, OF which he win in all probabtli-
~ eventually become the mos, Import.
ant factor,
Viscount Dillon'n only son and heir.
marry Lee Dillon, formerly an oricer
or the Rine brigade, oncreJ no de-.
fence in the suit for divorce broucht
against him by his wife. the dauSnt
ef OF a surgeon OF Crawiey, in Sus-j
seN' ana me marriage, winch was at
no time happy one. and when re-
suited in the husband leaving his wife
three years ago has now come 10 an
ehd. There Is only a little girl. now
1--WE yeaFs old, born 10 the union. and
~ IS probable that as soon as ever the
9eCree is made absolute Harry Lee
D!!ion VIII marry again: TINS time a
woman or his own world. and thus
pfgneht me viscounty and estates from
gong TO his cousin, Arthur Lee Dillon
OF me travellers CLUB. In the event
OF MS marrying again, however. he
WIN De Obliged TO abandon the Roman
a convert some years ago. since II
dees not recognize or tolerate divorce
his father Lord Dillon. is the sew.
chteehth v!scount OF MS line. has been
ana among the treasures OF his an
cestral home at Ditchley Park. in OK
i3Iushire' are number OF flint i'm
Ppi'elhtnts' found on the site OF the
virginia town which takes its name
OF Dltchiey from his country seat. II
was while visiting Ditchley, Va. some
tnirty-odd years ago, that he made
Mss she ae fn,ia OF the Canadian girl
Wife He has royal blood In his
veins; Tor among his ancestors is Lady
LIT l:Et5eh,fieidi the iiiegitimste daughter OF
CHARLES IL She was indeed one OF the
former chatelaines of Ditchley Park
where all the Merrie Monarch's con-
J iidential correspondence with her Is
sun preserved. in an antique. brass
sovereigns have been entertained at
Ditchley Park, notably Queen Eliza.
6eth, and the grand Paneiling of the
billiard room is still adorned with sew
eral heads OF red deer shot in SOS
and 1910. by James l.. and by his son
Henry. Prince of Wales. in Ditchley
Park James was so pleased with
Ditchiey; and with its owner then Sir
Thcooald Dillon, that ne bestowed up
on him the Irish Niscounty Of Dillon. OF
Costello Gal1en, in County Mayo Lord
Dillon. however. although his peerage
Englishman. that he has never been
elected as one of the representative
peers of Ireland and consequently has
no seat in the House of Lords. Yet he
as may be gathered from the fact that
he is president of the Society of ANTI
quaries, and OF the National Portrait
Gallery, a trustee of the British Mus
cum. former officer of the army and
curator of the armory of the Tower
of London. In fact he is the greatest
| authority on ancient armor now living,
and inaugurated his term of office at
the Tower of London, by reorganiZinE
the entire collection there. eliminating
| therefrom most extraordinary
from the collection the headsman's
axe long shown as having done duty
at the execution of Queen Anne Bo-
leyn. proving 1T to be a swindle, since
Anne was heheaded by sword. and
not with an axe And then he took the
armor suits one by one. and demon
strated that the familiar lay figures
were most ridiculously arrayed in
pieces OF armor manufactured in diff
| ferent centuries. and at different
epociF, and that the weapons described
as having been spoils Of the Spanish
Armada. could never have figured as
Spain. BY the time. however. that he
had completed his work of reorganza-
ton. the collection presented a very
different appearance. While many
familiar features were missing, hav-
ing been consigned to the scrap heap
! as frauds. even more fragrant than that
of Queen Anne Boleyns axe. the eXhl-
bition of armor IN the Tower of Lon
don. has the merit to. day of being abb
of the word authentic.
Copyright, 1911, by the Brentwood
Company.)