The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-08-19
ny Ia ,IANnUIsE DE FoNTENoY.

q iSIE fleld MarShal Lord Kitchen :
y er's attention to the widowed
- Lady Naylor-Leyland. formerly
Miss Jeanne Chamberlain. OF Cleveland
O.. have recently formed the subject
OF cable dispatches from London,
where the likelihood OF marriage is
being openly discussed. It may be ex-
planned that should the rumored union
take place. IL would be in every sense
OF the word a love match. For Lady
Naylor-Leyland was left In relatively
strlitened circumstances by her mil
lionaire husband, the late Sir Herbert
Naylor- Leyland. When his will was
opened, II was found that he had be-
queathed TO her an annuity OF $4,000
year. conditional upon her not marry
ing again; the use. but not the owner
ship of a million dollar London man
sion. facing the French Embassy. az
the knightsbridge entrance OF Hyde
Park and Il further allowance OF SEQ
900 year for the use OF the children
pending their minority.
In view OF the enormous fortune OF
Sir Herbert Nayior- Leyland, whose iIS-
come was rightly estimated at con-
slderably over 100000 a year. the
provision made for his lovely widow
seemed preposterous all the more, as
she was expected TO maintain thereon,
not alone the London mansion. but
also Nantciwyd Hall. his immense
place in North Wales. Still, Lady
Naylor Leyland never made any com
plant, and has managed thus far 10
get on fairly well. although she has
no fortune TO speak of of hcr own. and
was married by Herbert Naylor-L Ley
land, not for her dollars. which we're
but few. bur for her loveliness and
charm
OF all the American women who have
married Englishnlen, there is none that
holds so high a place in the favor o:
the entire royal family, especially Of
Queen Alexandra; and King Edward
was won't to declare that she was the
only American woman married to an
Englishman. whom he had never heard
say sn ill-natured thing about her
countrymen or about her country.
Her eldest son attains his majority
in December next. and then she VIII
lose not only the use of the Hyde
Park house in London, but also of her
late husbands country seat in North
Wales. She Will likewise forfeit one
half of the allowance of $4,000 a year
which she received for the education of
her two boys. II is therefore perfect
~ natural that she should have become
new home for herself, and OF marrying
the one man who of all others ap-
peaied to her admiration and to her
interest. namely. Lord Kitchener. who
has sufficient money OF his own to be
able to marry a woman without any
fortune of her own.
Lady Naylor Leyland. whose father
was William Selah Chamberlain. of
Cleveland, o., is not more than forty
three years of age. and has retained
to an extraordinary degree her great
beauty. her elasticity and sracefulness
of figure. and her charm. In fact she
would readily pass for a woman fifteen
years younger. Like Lord Kitchener,
she is somewhat reserved in her man
ner, does not easily take people into
her confidence, and while extremely
gracious, keeps mere acquaintances
nay. even friends, at a distance No
body therefore knows quite whether
her marriage to Herbert Naylor-Ley-
land was a particularly happy one or
not. The tenor of his will would in
dictate that the union. in its later stages
at any rate. was not altogether OF an
ideal character.
The fact of the matter was that
Herbert Naylor-Leyland was from the
time of his fathers death in 1885, a
rather morose and moody man, due
perhaps to the fact that he was re-
sponsible for the death of his parent,
old Tom Naylor- Leyland. whom he
mistook for stag. while out deer
stalking In the Highlands. and killed
with a rifle shot. being ever after
wards known by the cruel nickname
of "Bag-dad" Leyland. Conspicuously
connected, like his father before him,
with the Conservative party as Tory
member OF Parliament for Colchester,
he In 1895 suddenly Joined the Liberals.
and Immediately afterwards received
baronetcy from tho Liberal party,
thus laying himself open to the i'm
putation of having bartered away his
political convictions for the sake of
a title. He died rather suddenly, In
1899.
Should his widow accompany Lord
Kitchener to Egypt as his bride, the
foreign colony in the Land of the Nile
will be able to boast of a leader whe,
in tact, cieverness. and comelincss, viii
equal, If not surpass. her predecessors
at the British Embassy at Cairo, the
now DOwaCer LADY Vivian md ,l,o