New-York tribune., 1911-01-16
HEIR TO STONEHENGE
Edmund Antrobus, Now Here, Is
Son of the Owner.

/ Vopyr1sht' 1911. by the Brentwood Company
Enmund Antrobus. who arrived in this city
on sunday Of last week on board the White
star liner Megantic, IS an officer of King
georges > Grenadier Guards and the next
heT 10 MS fathers baronetcy and 20 the
I ownership OF Stonehenge. lie Is. In fact.
the only son of Sir Edmund Antrobus. who
Is known officially as "of Rutberfurd." i" the
irst holder OF the Antrobus baronetcy. hav-
ing received the royal permission 10 as
! sumo TINS style. as owner of the Ruther-
Iura estates, formerly belonging 70 the
scotch barony Of Rutherford. in Rox-
burghshire. This pesrage became dormant
I in 1924, and If genealogists are 10 be be-
I teved there are In America peoplc who
have very strong claims thereto. among
them the Rutherfurds of New York. whose
armorial bearings are Identical with the
oldtime lords of Rutherfurd There is no
family connection between the RutherfurGs
and the family of Antrobus, and II Sir
Edmund Antrobus makes use Of the same
supporters as the former lords Of Ruther-
ford-namely, two ho-ses-it is because
they were granted 10 the first baronet by
the Crown on purchasing the lands and es-
| tates of the Rutherfurds
The Sir Edmund Antrobus Of to-day is a
distinguished soldier who served with
much gallantry IN the Guards IN Egypt
and who since retiring from the army has
assumed, as partner. the representation OF
the hereditary family interests in Coutts's
Bank, IN London lie married Florence
Sartoris, niece OF Mrs Nellie Grant Sar-
toris, and his uncle, the late Monsignor
, Frederick Antrobus was for many years
secretary Of the British Legation at Wash
/ ington during the Presidencies Of Lincoln,
Johnson and Grant. He retired from the
diplomatic service as first secretary, en-
tered holy orders OF the Roman Catholic
Church and became superior of that exceed
ingly aristocratic ecclesiastical establish
men I'm London known as the Oratory, at
Brompton.
It Is, however, the ownership Of Stone
herge that renders Sir Edmund Antrobus,
and consequently also his only sou. now
visiting this country, objects Of interest to
people in America. Stonehenge is 10 Eng
land what the Pyramids are TO Egypt, be-
Ing indissolubly bound up with the history
Of the nation. it's age however. antedating
tho dawn thereof since its origin has been
accorded b. the most eminent scientists
Of the day 20 an epoch nearly two thousand
years before the birth OF Christ. Standing
alone, in strange circles, far from human
habitation, in tho midst OF a vast open
rolling plain, these immense stones were
regarded as prehistoric already d thousand
years ago, when Henry OF Huntingdon
wrote OF them. Caxton, the inventor of
printing referred 10 the mystery cf their
origin. Sir Philip Sidney sang Of them in
the reign Of Queen Elizabeth; Charles II
beEuiled a day. after the, disastrous battle
Of Worcester, IN endeavoring to count the
stones while hiding at Hexe House, and
Daniel Defoe, Of Robinson Crusoe' fame,
likewise described his pilgrimage 70 the
spot
Sir Edmund eudeavored some years ago
70 sell the ruins and the twenty acres OF
land on which they stand 70 the British
government, or 10 any public body OF.
sauized for their preservation, the sum
he demanded being $4,000. There has al
ways been q dread lest Andrew Carnegie,
j. Pierpont Morgan or some other Ameri-
can multi-miIlionaire should take advan-
tage Of this offer, purchasing the whole
property and ruins and shipping the latter
of to America, al the same time subject
ing their present site 10 en- exhaustive ex-
ploration by means Of excavations, which
world probably reveal wonderfully inter
eSting relics of the creators Of the temple
and POSSIBLY also treasure.