The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-18
SIR JOHN ANDERSON
GETS APPOINTMENT

Moskowa and also of the NTH Prince
OF Elchingen. both of them titles con-
ferred by the hrst Napoleon on that
field marshal whom he described as
the bravest OF the brave" Among her
sisters are Princess Joachim Murat.
and also the widow OF Prince Eugene
Murat.
The father OF the Duchess OF Camas-
ira. and of her brothers and sisters.
was that cavalry General Michael Ney,
third Duke d'Elchingen. the mystery OF
whose murder IN 1881. in a deserted
villa of the Partisan suburb of Crojssy.
has remained unraveIed TO this day, his
assassins never having been brought TO
justice. II is known. however. that for
some years prior to his death he was
harassed by blackmailers, who extorted
enormous sums from him. His widow
r. year after the tragedy married the
descendant of another of Nepoleon's
mnrshais. namely. Victor afassena.
Prince of Essl!ng. and Due de Riyou
She was OF Portuguese-H Hebrew ORIGIN.
her maiuen name being Paula Furtado
and she was the adopted dauph,er and
the heiress OF her colossally wealthy
aunt old Nine Cecil Heine.
Rear Admiral Sir Colin Keppel. who
is to command the ocean liner Medina.
chartered for use as royal yacht for
the conveyance of King George and
Queen Mary to India In November. is
likewise TO command the four warships
which arc 70 form the escort of the SOW
ereign. That sir Colin should have
been selected for the purpose is
only natural. For he has been
closely and intimately associated with
the reigning family ever since his
boyhood. as equerry in turn to Princa
Alfred. the sailor Duke OF Edinburgh
and Coburg, to King Edward. both as
Prince OF Wales and as King, and to
George v. He is. moreover, the only
son OF the late admiral OF the feet. Sir
Harry Keprel, who was go great q fav-
orite OF Queen Alexandra, who used to
call him her little admiral and who
died in 1908, at the advanced age OF
ninety-hve, In full possession Of all his
mental faculties, and OF his physical
ViGor. until almost the very last
While Sir Colin has been much at
court, and good deal OF his service
has been on board the royal yacht as
lieutenant, as commander, as captain
and as commodore, he has also been
under fire quite often. He took part
In the Egyptian War of 1882. also in
the South African campaign against
the Beers ten years ago, while he went
up with Lord Charles Beresford on tho
Nile to khartoum in 1855, in the vain
IL,
had been killed few days previously.
on that occasion he especially dis
tinSuished himself by piece OF hero
ism In rescuing Sir Charles Wilson ana
some of Gordon's men who had strand
ed on native boat just under the
guns of 8. Dervish fort Keppel, with
a party of six bluejackets. accomplish
ed the task: not. however, without his
sustaining a wound about which he
said nothing until he had got Sir
Charles and his men safely aboard LORD
Charles's steamboat
Sir Colin is a grandson of the fourth
Earl of Albemarle. and his only sis.
ter is married to Admiral Sir Frederick
Tower Hamilton. second in command of
the English squadron that visited New
York on the occasion of the Hudson
Fulton celebration. Lady Keppel is a
former lady in waiting OF the widowed.
Duchess of coburg and Edinburgh.
Copyright. 1911, by the Brentwood
Company