The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-01
TAKE HIS BRIDE
TO CLAYTON HOUSE

inund. in 1891. was expelled from thb
Rouse or Commons. was dismissed from
the royal navy. In which he held the
rank or captain, forfeited all the medals
which he had won in the Crimean War
In the Indian Mutny. and underwent
viii sih' snrS 81 h Two years, imprtsonment
crime in which a young girl under age
was concerned. Sir Edmund had UP Ia
that line been designated $ the heir
OF tho very large fortune OF his uncle
Frederick Calvert. .. c.. member OF
Parliament for Aylesbury. When, how
ever. Sir Edmund was convicted, Fred
eTlcK Calvert altered his Will. and left
MS property Instead TO Edmund's
younger brother, Harry Lloyd Verney,
deputy nsster Of King Georges house
bold, and brother-in-law OF the late
William Bayard Cutting, OF New York,
who, IKE him, had married daughter
OF tae Earl OF Desart. Harry Lloyd
Nerrey is at the present time heir pre-
sumptive TO the Nerney baronetcy..t-
Tie actual owner of the Verney es-
tates. Sir Harry Calvert Verney. is a
man OF thirty. is member of Parlia
inert for North Buckingha.Gshire and
was private secretary to Lord Elgin
when the latter was Secretary OF State
for the Colonies. II waa then that he
made the acquaintance OF his chiefs
youngest daughter, Lady Rachel Bruce,
juit twenty years OF age. who Is now
TO become his wife.
Lord Elgin who three years ago re-
FUSED the offer OF Advancement TO the
rank OF marquis, is chief OF that great
Scottish house of Bruce which furn-
ished Robert Bruce to the throne OF
Scotland. as It's most famous King, and
WAS born on this side of the Atlantic,
htyinG first seen the light OF day at
Ottawa, during his fathers term of
Lord Eigin, at Broomhaii, his ances.
tai seat in Scotland, preserves many
historic reiGs, including the sword and
helmet Of King Robert Bruce. His
"a no nc 4 ha r,,, Il
10 the British nation those master
pieces of ancient Creek sculpture
known as the "Elgin. Marbles" and
which now figure in the British Mus
cum; while his father was that Earl
of Elgin who was special ambassador
to this country some sixty years ago,
with the United States. which is de-
scribed as having been "fioated through
the senate on champagne" But that
was Tar from being the only title to
Englishmen regard him as having
saved India for the empire, at the
time OF the great mutiny, half a CEN
fury ago. He died at his post as vic
eroy. and lies buried, not in the fami-
J.. mausoleum in Scotland but in tina
Hi station in India, where he breathed
his last.
The present Lord Elgin is not an .
impressive man. and does not In hisp
appearance suggest the knightly graces
OF David. Earl OF Huntingdon. grand :
spH Oh lOdVlu L. OF scotland, OF thoII
Norman chevaliers, of the English i
barons. and of the Scottish Kings, who
were all among his ancestors Worst,
of all. he is very Indifferent horses
man, which was greatly to his disad- "a
vantage when Viccroy OF India, wherel
all sorts of funny stories were cufrent T.
about his equestrian deficiencies. Thusn,
on one occasion, when. at Simla, he
was taking horseback exercise aloneS
the fashionable promenade Of the loy
cality one of the most important dignif
taries OF the government wanted I'd
discuss a matter of imperial Importance
with him, and sent an aide-de-camp I'd
ask him If he might join His Bxcellency
in in his ride; The aide de camp canterea
claimed Your EXcellency!"
No answer was vouchsafed A it'll
nonplussed, the a!de-de- camp trie
again. with no better results.
In desperation he returned to the at
tack, with, Your Excellency! Sir Sc
and. requests =" Whereupon Lor
Elgin turned upon him furiously, wit
this unique, but to his mind all-sufftO
Client excuse for his preoccupation:
Great God, sir! Can't you see thd
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