The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-12
MARRIAGE UM|TES
OLD DUCAL HOUSES
Lord Parcy and Lady Helen
LennoX, Prominent Mem
bers of Peerage, Wed.
RECALL FAMILY ORIGIN
Ancestor Was Favorite of
Charles H., and Received
Many HonorS.
BY LADY MARY MANWARING.
Special Gable 10 The Tribune.

/ ID hAoI MANI nlAN w al hlNG,
| Special Cable 10 The Tribune.
| LONDON Nov. 1.-THE recent mar
riagc OF Earl Parcy to Lady Helen Cor
don LcnoN not only unites two OF Eng
land great ducal houses. but calls at
tention 10 the source az some OF Eng
! lands highest aristocracy. For example
the tarcys descend in the male line from
a city haoe rdashcr. whose name Smith
son is very familiar in America from the
Tact that n member OF the same family
oas the founder OF the Smithsonian In
suiuiion at Washington. He purchased
his business from family named Rob
Earls dc Grey and Marquises OF Rpon.
The founder OF the brides family was
Charles L.cnnoN. one OF the expensive
brood whom Charles lis pronigacy en-
tailed on his subjects. His mother
Louise dc Querouallle. Duchess OF Ports
mouth was so anxious for his advance
ment that In his third year he was made
Lord Settringron. Earl OF March and
Duke OF Richmond, all in the county Of
Yorkshire.
To these were afterwards added the es-
tates and dukedoms OF Lennox in Scot
land, which. it Is alleged, had lapsed to
The crown, but there is question about
the, the extinction S,,l OF the dukedom. which
ICY. tn" Duke of Richmond and Lcnnox
was In his twelfth year made Knight of
The Garter, and his inyestlture led 10
change In tho fashion OF wearing the blue
riGand. Shortly after he had been ad-
mitted to the noble order his delighted
mother presented him to the king with
the riband over the right shoulder as
nov worn. Charles was SO pleased that
he desired the fashion should be adontel
instead ot wearing the riband round the
center of the breast, To crafty the ra-
pnGity OF his mother. the duke. almost in
childhood. was appointed master Of the
horse the duties being OF course, per-
formed by deputy.
Was Kings Favorite
Tho Of Z, ro.e
deprived OF this lucrative post, owing to
his mothers intriguing. Evelyn describes
the duke as having been "a pretty boy"
and. though Swift says he WAS a shall
low coxcomb, another. and perhaps more
reliable. writer asserts that he had the
fine breeding and easy temper of his fa-
ther, and was good .natured to n fault
very well bred with many valuable
qualities. very Credulous. an enemy TO
business, well-shaped. dark and much
Ike the king, He appears to have been
faVorite with William Of Orange who
made him an aid dc camp. and he also
stood well with George l., to whom he
was Lord OF the Bedchamber The
duke died at Goodwood In 1923. and was
buried In Henry Wis chapel at West
minister, but his remains were after
wards removed TO Chichester cathedral
There Is one thing to bo thankful for
none OF the Duchess Of Portsmouth's
descendants inherited her bad qualities.
Not one dishonest transaction or dis
graceful political intrigue which made
infamous the last years of Charless reign
occurred in which Louise de ouerouaille
was not the prime mover, Charles's ac-
ceptance OF a pension from France, his
discreditable engagements with that
country. his crusade against the parlIa-
ment. and the treachery of England To-
wards the Dutch were all hatched i'm her
retiring room. The intriguing French
woman was as much detested by the ma
ticn as she was beloved by the king who
was more constant 10 her than 10 any OF
her fsvortes' indeed, she duped and en-
chanted him 10 tho end.
Married Beautiful Woman,
The marriage Of Lord and Lady Dud-
ley. who arc being fetcd by their friends
OF the romances of the peeragc. Lady
Dudley was a Miss Rachel Gurney
daughter OF the ruined banker When
Lord Dudley found himself acccpt.d he
wen, TO his mother and said: II wanted
10 marry the most beautiful woman In
England, and as 7 can't marry YOU ! am
going to marry Rachel Gurney; The
family, Their mother was a sister Of
the late Valentine Prnsep, from whom
they inherit much or their artistic abn-
in other directions as Is her sister. Lady
Trouhridgc, In tho realm o! literature
An admirable organizer, she worked
wonders among the poor. OF Ireland. She
pearl necklace which had bson found IN
the River Blackwater
JhcN nave seven tDlaren. Rll emark-
ably Ike their mother. Beautiful count
esscs OF Dudley seem Ia he the rule ra,h-
er than the exception. for both wives
Of the late earl were lovely women. and
the doNager countess was still q reign
Ing beauty when she became g grand
mother.
Everyone HiIl remember the maria 90
OF the earl Of Dudlcys brother, the Hon.
John Ward, TO Miss Jean Whitelaw
Reid, three years ago, lie had been re-
garded az confirmed bachelor. and ow-
ing. no doubt, TO his constant presence
about tn. court he was a tayuritc
c1uerry 10 Queen Alexandra, and people
did not hesitate Ia say that hopeless
attachment 10 rcya! princess was the
reason There was never any foundation
for the rumor. he had the usual little ro-
mences but it was not until he met the
lady vino. is now his wife that he ever
thought of UIatrimony. The curious
thing about the Ward marriages is that
leaving the earl himself out IF the
duestion--thc -four brothers reversed the
usual order OF things The youngest
married first and ihen the others AT
regular intervals Of two years until the
great Anglo American wedding OF the
eldest in 1905.