The Washington herald., 1911-06-15
A Child at the
Coronation of George V.

Inc smallest and daintieSt personality
at the coronation will be little Elizabeth
Adelaide Mary Bligh, Baroness Clifton OF
Leighton Bromswold, a mere child OF
eleven. And yet this is going to be the
second coronation of British sovereign
in which this mite of a peeress is to
participate. For nine years ago she wore
peeress' robe and a miniature coronet
when Edward was crowned King of
England
She is the seventeenth holder of the
barony. The family was founded by Sir
Gervaise Clifton Knight in the fourteenth
century. The daughter of another Sir
Gervaise, who was created a baron In
1908, married Lord Esme Stuart in 1903,
who ten years later was created Earl
of March and Baron Stuart of Leighton
Bromswold. He also held the title of
Lord of Aubigny in the French peer
age. But he was destined to still further
honors. In 1924 he succeeded his elder
brother of the third Duke of Lennox.
The wife of this duke, upon his demise,
married the Earl of ADercorn, and by
him left Il son, who not only inherited
her barony Of Clifton, &c, but also the
Gukedom of Lennox. as fourth duke.
Honors were also showered upon this
peer, for in 1G41 he was created Duke
OF Richmond. But when, in 1913, the
sixth Duke of Lennox and third Duke
OF Richmond, who also was sixth Baron
Clifton Of Leighton Bromswold. died
leaving again no male issue, all his per-
sonal honors became extinct, with the
exception of the barony, which devolved
upon his sister Catherine, whose right
to the title Parliament acknowledged
in 1914
That baroness was succeeded by her
daughter. who married John Bligh, who
was made Earl of Darnley in 1725 in the
peerage Of Ireland. The dual title of the
Clifton barony and the Darnley earldom
was held 0y all of his successors until
Edward Henry stuart the sixteenth
Baron Clifton, father of the little peeress
OF this sketch, who succeeded him upon
his death ten years ago as the seven
teenth Baroness Clifton of Leighton
Bromswold, while his Irish title to the
earldom of Darnley devolved on his
brother
His widow, the mother of our little
peeress. married again. She is the wife
of Capt. Arthur c. Leveson, of the royal
navy.
Berlin newspapers are excited over the
fact that the Kaiser was trapped into
approving of a club which it has de-
Veloped was nothing but an aggregation
of noble gamblers. 1t had been founded.
so it's promoters pretended. on the same
line as the Travellers Club in London for
the purpose of bringing together wealthy
and distinguished men of all nationalities.
When the crash came the cashier of the
,l,,l. 81
depot, just as he was in the act of
leaving the city.
Court officials are angry that the Kaiser
allowed himself to be taken in so easily
and to approve the club, although a
society weekly had exposed its purposes.
The Kaiser. who had been invited to the
clubs inaugural banquet. had responded
and had lauded the club for its noble
purpose" to prove a home for rich
travellers while in the German capital
One of the founders is Duke de la Char
tire, who, according to the Paris police, is
an impostor without a title and who
now is in prison for some swindling oper-
ations.
The exposure is so much more to be
regretted, as the first president of that
new club, Count Won GoertZ, is known
the police exonerate from all knowledge
of the seedy transactions which his good
name was used to cover up, by giving
the organization the prestige of an aris-
tocratic head. The police forced an en-
trance to the building and secured the
Emperor's telegram praising the aims Of
the new club.
The arrested cashier. a Mr.. Faur, con-
fessed that he, an American by the name
or1
Drouilet, had no other purpose than to
make the club an establishment for the
play of baccarat and other such round
table games. But It turned QUO that
Drouilet was wanted by the police in
connection with suppressed gambling
club, which was frequented mostly by
titled gamblers Faur said he had quar-
relied with Draper and the others and
tried to bolt with the money that was
due him
The irritation of the court officials
can be understood more readily when
it is explained that the Emperor, whose
telegram of congratulation was promi-
nently displayed in the clubs principal
card room, is the strictest opponent Of
gambling. AS crown prince, he forbade
gambling by officers of the regiment of
which he was colonel. Ascending the
throne, the Emperor promptly Issued a
cabinet order that all army or naval
officers caught In a gambling ctub would
be Immediately dismissed. OnIy a few
days ago. two titled officers of the Body
Guard were dismissed by him Cor fire.
quenting one of the clubs which have
been springing up like mushrooms in the
Berlin westend recently i
Count Goertz announced in the Kreutz
Zeitung, an aristocraic newspapers, that
he was completely deceived as to the
nature Of the club, that he has resigned
as its president, and will never enter its
doors again. The count added that he
had made exhaustive inquiries about
Draper md could discover only that he
IS related to William Franklin Draper.
formerly American Ambassador at
Rome. Draper always refused TO visit
the American Embassy here, and that is
one reason why Ambassador Hill and
bis secretaries and attaches declined the
clubs invitations to its diplomatic din
ner''
The late Lord Cawdor. of the Camp |
bell clan and related TO the Duke Of
Argyll, who died recently after having |
been chairman of the board of directors
Of the Great Western Railway for ten |
years, and first lord of the British ad-
left an estate valued at some |
thing over $S,OO0,00O
Lord Cawdor left the painting of the