The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-05
Life In short.
~RIBBLESDALE
SOON WILL WED AGAIN

he always seemed TO be inbued win
the belief That 'ae Could restore his
shattered fortunes 10y rm~OarklnG IN tnc
most foolish and wildcat Enterprises.
%.Ndolphus ana Lady F~itzEcorge under
took the charge or the widowed SIR.
hit|Scorge's Two daughters and OF hcs
Son ~ ner second marriage. the bog
being nov u junior licutcnsnt OF the
royal navy.
Lord Ribblesdale. who is now about
TO become Strs. ~FitzStorge's sOn-in-
law. mas always looked upon politics
rather 40 a joke, and while protesting
Liberalism, even HadicaIisn ana al
though defending in the House of
forwards spoilt the whole effect OF that
defence By alIudins TO the Chancellor
OF the ENchequcr as half pantaloon
and half h~!ghway man."
Lord RlbblcSdglc. w,ao is a very good
looking man In the neiehborhood of
sixty. first achieved distinction in 1857
by his success in intervle wing ina
secFetive statesman. Charles eva
ParneI TO whom lie was a perfect
stranger at the time. The peer ..nd :hc
great irish leader travelled III the same
railroad compartment from London 10
liolyhead. and before the journey end
ed. the ordinarily impenetrablc Irish
statesman had been clevely !Dveigieu
into un1osoming himself about a num-
Der of interesting measures relating
10 the home-rule question. which APP
peared Two days later IN print. and
were never denied. Nicknamed "Drib-
tlesluash' by his friend and crony.
admiral Lord Charles Rcresford, and
the Ancestor by Edward VII. on ac-
count of the peculiarly eighteenth CEN
fury look of his clean-cut, h%igl-brcd,
clean-shaven features. surmounted IA
WHVy grey hair. ne was famed IN hIh
DAY as a boxer. Indeed, no used to be
credited with the ability 10 knock ont
~ Tour rounds any fellow peer in the
House OF Lords. with the possible eX-
renfIDn Df Lord InnSHuIn ha, uva
whom and himself. II 1t came to oox-
Ing, II would have resulted in a tie
Lord R!bblesdale's eldest surviving
son, the Hon. charles Lister, made,
while still at oxford. a profession of
Socialist opinions, organized a Social
ISL party at The university! numbering
afterwards appeared on many a Social
list platform, contributing literally to
the Socialist cause. Unfortunately the
Official Socialist organ. known as The
ii number of editorial paragraphs bit
terly assailing his father, Lord Rib
blesdale. and Lord i,ovat who had mar
ried his sister. This was more than
Young Lister could stand. and accord
ingiy he addressed a public letter to
the editor of the socialist Review
in which te declared that owing to the
deliberate attacks upon his own fami-
ly 'n' that of Lord Lovat in the Off
cial organ OF the Socialist party. he
could not do otherwise-tilan renounce
hii " tHtI COittllOl az tHt natter,
and sever his relations with his form
err Socialist co-workers and friends.
Young Charles Lister. who has now
Joined the diplomatic. service. owes the
fact of his being the heir to his faith
er's honors and valuable estates to
the death. of his elder brother, Can
tain Thomas Lister. of the Tenth Hus-
sars. who after winning the Ustin-
guished service order in the Boer war,
was killed at Jidballi, in the war upon
the Mad Mullah, in Sonialiland. The
late Lady Ribblcsdalc. who was re-
tive OF the daughters of the late Sir
Charles Tenant, and certainly the
most popular of them all, never got
over this loss OF her eldest boy. and
which no doubt contributed TO hcr
death last May.
{Copyrigh;. 1911. by the Brentwood
Company