The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-16
Dr Ia MAnoUIsE DE roNTENoY

~ the very brilliant London season
prlncipS f Whieh they Nyys are IL be tho
OF the Premier. has been placed in
mourning by tho death OF her only
surviving sister. Lady Ribblesdgle. wh6
by many was regarded as the most a :
tractive Of the daughters OF the late
Sir Charles Tenant. At any rate.
she was far and away the most popu-
lar of them all; and whereas Mrs. AS
Iuith has made many eacinies By tho
bitterness. of her clever tongue Indy
itibbiasdale boosted of nothing but
gifts Of her family. Was a freauent
the better class OF reviews and mag
azines. and came prominently before
the public ct the time or King Ed
wards coronation. by her appeal in
he newspapers that there should DO
special exercise OF the royal pre-
ncction with the occasion. She was
never quite the same woman, how
eyer, after the death of her eldest son.
Captain tho Hon. Thomas Lister who.
after winning the Distinguished Ser
vice Order as an officer OF tho Tenth
Hussars IN the Boer War, WAS killed
Muilah In Somaliland. Her remaining
son. Charles Lister. recently made a
public remuneration or the socialism
which he had until then professeo,
owing to the attacks of thc\ Socialist
press upon his parents and relatives
lie is now working at tho Foreign
ONCE In London. preparing himself for
diplomatic career.
Those who met the Master OF Pol
warth when he visited this country last
year. TO represent Scotland at the In
ternationnl Prison Congress at WASH
inIton in his capacity as chairman OF
the government board OF Prison Com
missioncra OF the Northern Kingdom.
VIII he Interested to learn that his
eldest sons coming of age has Just
ties, on the extensive estates of old
Lord Polwarth. In RoXburghshire aud
Haddingtonshire. M
Lord Poiwarth is chief OF one of tic
oldest houses or Scotland. namely. the
SCOTS OF Arden. TO which Sir Walter
Scott. the famous novelist, belonged.
The SCOTS of Arden became Lords OF
Polwarth through the marriage in
1854 Of the tenth Laird of Arden with
Lady Diana Hume Campbell, daughter
or The Earl OF Marchmont. who was
great seal OF Scotland and lord mar
slal. Lord Marchmont died without
male issue. and while his carldonl be-
same extinct MS nar1ny Of roiWarth
and on her death TO hor son by her
marriage with Walter Scott of Arden.
namely. Hugh Scott, who became sixth
Lord Polwarth and eleventh Laird Of
Arden He assumed the additiET al
patronymic of Hepburn in consequence
OF the estates Of the ljcpburns Of Hum
Helen Hepburn, Countess OF Tarras. his
great grandmother. Tho present Lord
Polwarth is his grandson.
While Lord Polwnrth is only eighth
Lord of Polwarth. and thirteenth Laird
OF Arden. he IS twenty-third in iineal
descent from Uctred Fitz Scott who
nourished. in tho reign of David !. Of
Scotland, and was witness to the two
charters granted BY him to the Abb
beys of Holyrood and Selkirk. in 1928
and 1880. AS such, Lord Polwarth
claims, the chieftainship of all tho
the Scott family of which the Duke OF
Bucclcuch Is the chief is only descend
cd in the female line from Sir Robert
Scott, the founder Of tho Buccleuch
branch.
Ono OF tho daughters of Lord Pol
warth, the Hon. Mary Hepburn Scott,
is out In Central Asia, on the border
land of Thlbet. engaged In missionary
OF Scotland Missionary Society; while
one of her younger brothers. the Hon.
Henry Hepburn Scott, Is ranching in
the Transvaal.
De auny-Talvande. whose examina-
ton in the bankruptcy Court OF Lon
don the other day disclosed the fact
Tint he was wholly without resources,
without expectations. and not even a
shiliing's worth of assets, Will be re-
membered In this country as draw
ing-room lecturer. who during his stay
In America picked up quite little
money by giving talks or French
chateaux and chateau life. ,.Ii
Rather good looking. no subsequent
iy managed TO secure the hand of Lady
Mary Byng. who had been one Of the
maids Of honor to Queen Victoria,
and who Is n daughter OF the late Earl
of Strafford: n step-daughter therefore
of that American-born Cora Countess
of STAFFORD, whose first husband was
had been a Miss Corn Smith OF Now
Orleans. Indeed Lady Mary Byng's
marriage was said at tho time to be
fathers union to Mrs. Colgate. This
Mt any ratio was given as the explana-
tion for Lady Mary's throwing herself
away upon Do Mauny-Talvande, who
had no birth, social position. or for
time to speak of; whereas Lady Mary
was very, good-looking. accomplished
and popular. and might easily have
made n far better match
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