The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-26
nm "a MARaUIsE De FoNrENoY.

-,
" has just received Barony OF
the United Kingdom, on the oc
casion Of the Kings coronation,
which Will give him seat in the House
OF Lords. Is Liberia In politics. and tor
this reason has never been elected as
one OF the representative peers OF Ire
Iand. the overwhelming majority OF
elections being unionists. The found :
er OF MountEarrei and the Barony of
Is CHS, to which he has hitherto been
restricted are Irish peerages dating
tuiy. when they were bestowed upJn a
younger son OF the eighth Earl Of
ormonde, by Edward VI. Lord Mount
sarrei therefore represents a junior
Dranch OF the great Irish house OF
Butler. OF which the present Marquis of
Crnonde is the chief and is a very
rich man. having inherited large for.
. Se from MS mother, in addition to
that which came 10 him through his
father. -
The latter was the defendant in the
famous Mountgarret peerage case,
which was on. Of the causes celobre
grandson of the eleventh viscount, by
that peers third son. the Hon Henry
Sutler. Henry. after clipping with a
married woman. and then deserving her,
Coiebrook. described a S one of tho most
beautiful and fascinating women of the
day. She had large income. be-
quea thed to her by Colonel colebrook,
one child was born TO Henry Butler,
and to Mrs Colebrook. and then a
certain John Taaffe "a member of that
noble Irish house TO which the late
time rhine minister and an Irish peer,
oelonged) came upon the scene, as a
rival Of the Hon. Henry Butler.
One night Henry Butler broke into
C0lehrn0E'z ~
while John Taaffe was there. Mrs.
Colebrook locked Taaffc in a cupboard,
In order to conceal him. and then went
downstairs to try to pacify Henry
that a ceremony should then and there
take place. which should bind her to
him for all time. according to the law
of Scotland. So the servants were
and there. In the presence of them all.
Henry Butler and Mrs. Colebrook
/ joined hands, and proclaimed Them
selves man and wife, John Taafe be-
ing meanwhile locked up in the cup
board, and kicking at the door in
vain. M
Then Butler took his departure, and
Taafe came out of the cupboard. Five
months later, utterly regardless OF this
ceremony, Mrs. Colebrook married John
Taaffe. whose father thereupon dis
inherited him. and Immediately after
wards Henry Butler welded a York
shire lady, a Miss Anne Harrison. in
the parish church of Harrowgate, in
England. 1t was this wife who was the
mother Of the late and thirteenth Lord
Mountgarret. x
On the death of the twelfth yiscount
Mountgarret who had been created
Earl Of Kilkenny, and who left no chill
dren his nephew, the son of his young
est brother, the Hon. Henry Butler. and
of Miss Anne Harrison, assumed the
Viscounty OF Mountgarret. and took
possession OF the estates, but soon
found that his retention thereof was
contested by Pierce Somerset Butler.
the son OF his fathers youngest broth
err. who claimed the honors and the
property. on the ground that Henry
Buffers English marriage to Miss Anne
Harrison had been invalid. by ason
of his previous Scotch union to Mrs.
Colebrook.
The case that is to say, the suit
f9 the in Of 1s 81 sns
was granted in favor of the plaintiff.
Pierce Somerset Butler. But this
| Judgment was reversed in the follow
! ing to believe the extraordinary story
| of the Scotch marriage, of which there
was no documentary evidence,
Lord Mountgarret has disposed OF
ty Kilkenny to his tenantry, under the
Irish land act, retaining. however,
| Mountgarret Castle and the park by
which It Is surrounded. and spends
most OF MS tinc at -Nlao fihii, one Oh
| his three places In Yorkshire
| Aretas Akers-Douglas. who was
created a iviscount on Monday last by
! King George, on the occasion Of hio
coronation, was the Secretary: of State
for the Homo Department, In the last
Unionist Cabinet. is a member OF the
bar, and has been prominently identi-
fed with the Conservative party for
more than thirty years, being In charge