The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-10
ny LA MARauIsE DE roNrENoY.


T ORD LIVERPOOL whose half
sister. Lady Constance Fol-
- jamie. has created 80 great
sensation In London by fall
Ing to appear at the altar on the
day set for her wedding TO a country
village parson. with a salary of less
than $1,000 a year. and twenty-five
years her senior. is comptroller of the
royal household. after having been
state steward to the Viceroy OF Ire-
land. 1t Is ridiculous, however, TO pre-
dict that he will be called upon to
resign his office al court in conso-
quence of Lady Constance's coup do
tete. For in the first place, she has
done nothing reprehensible: and then.
TOO, he cannot possibly be held ac-
countable for the vagaries OF all of
his Ave brothers and six half-sisters.
He comes by his name OF Foljambe.
and also by his pecrage. through the
distaff side OF his house. The Fol-
1ambes played a great role in the
reiSns OF Henry Ill and Edward l. The
family became extinct IN the male line
in 1851 when Francis Moore. o. We'll
ton Hall. Yorkshire. succeeded TO the
estate OF his mothers brother Thomas
Folja mbe last OF his line. whose name
and arms he assumed by virtue of an
act OF Parliament bearing the date
of 1863 George Foljambe, grand
father OF the present earl married
Lady Selma Jenkinson. daughter and
heiress OF the last Of the Jenkinson
Earis of LIVERPOOL Her eldest son.
by this marriage with George Fol-
Jamie. was raised to the peernge as
Lord Hawk esbury by Queen Victoria in
1898. and served her a lord IN waiting
and as lord steward OF the household.
and was n naval veteran of the New
Zealand War
King Edward revived in his favor
his maternal grandfathers Earl
dom OF Liverpool. the bestowal Of thi.
distinction serving to recall the fact
that II was as Earl OF Liverpool that
the late William Z. Gladstone was a
one moment on the point OF being
raised 10 the peerage. There was n
time when he was not only willing.
but even anxious. to wind up his won
cerful career in the House Of Lords
providing that the earldom bestowed
upon him could be that OF Liverpool!
city with which he was so rreatly
Identified by family and political as
soclatlons II was only when he found
mat there were insuperable obstacles
to his taking the title OF Earl of Liver
POO! that he declined to consider any
further the idea of accepting a peer.
age and made up his mind to die as
ne had lived-plnin William E. Glad.
stone.
The obstacles were in the form OF
objections raised by Cecil George
Foljamhe. maternal grandson OF the
Jenkinson Earls of Liverpool. and
rather Of the present Lord Liverpool
It Is matter of unwritten law In
England that no newly created peer
should select as his title one which
has belonged to a family which ia sim
In existence. and which has expecta-
lions OF having the dignity in oues-
tion revived in its favor by the crown
The first of the Jenkinson Earls Of
LiVernool commanded the Royal Horse
Guards at the battle OF Dcttinsen. IA
nous as the last battle in which a
King OF England took actual part
George ii. participating in several Of
the cavalry charges. This earl PLAYED
notable role in politics during the
reign OF George III. His SON. the sec
ond Earl of Liverpool. was SECRETARY
OF state for Foreign Affairs. ana
Prime Minister of England for seven
teen years, and 1t was his half-brother
and successor who was the third and
last Lord Liverpool of the Jenkinson
line
There are many precedents for LADY
so!1amhe's action in breaking off her
engagement on the very morning of
her wedding. Thus, there is the in
stance of Lady Florence Paget. who
lifted Henry Chaplin in that way. to
wed the fourth and last MARQUIS of
hastings, the latter being subsequent
~ completely ruined by the victory