The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-16
La Marquise de Fon1enoy
ORD LoCII. who has just received
the appolntment OF lord in walt
ing, TO King George. In Tho nln q q


rhe appointment OF lord in wait
- inKs TO King George. In the place
ol LORD Twecdmouth, owes it TO
L t; nomination OF the prime minister.
waiting to tho sovereign are minis
teFlal posts. one or the conditions OF
.h h tenure being that the holders
administration, and should hclp 70 rep.
resent Gne latter In the House OF
LORDS. They carry with them salary
OF sS,ooo year. besides n number OF
hlSnly valued prerogatives. But since
the Liberals came Into power five years
] aso there have been numerous changes
| IN this particular department OF the
er throwing up the job. owing TO his
disapprovai OF tho policy pursued by
rhe ca binet The resignation OF Lord
Iweedmouth, who arrived in this
both been duo 10 political causes
Ihere is only one lord in waiting
who is non-political, who docs not
chanGe with the administration, and
whose office Is of 4 more permanent
character In the present reign the
post is' held BY Lord Annaly. Under
King Edward VII. It was filled by the
now octogenarlan and recently re-
! married Lord sumeid: while during
the latter portion of the reign OF
Queen Victoria 1t was occupied by
the lnte General Lord BrIdport
Lord Loeb is q colonel OF
the Grenadier Guards. who served r.,
the soudan. under Kitchener. and az
the Boer War. in which he was badly
wounded. winning the distinguished
service order lie Is married to a
daughter OF the Marquis of Northamp-
two daughters. his peerage will be-
come extinct on his death He is the
second lord OF his line. The barony
vas created In favor or his father. a
Il bio career
The late Lord Loeb began by being n
midshipman: then entered the Indian
Ing a. ID. C. to the commander-in- chief
Lord Cough. In the Crimean War he
helped TO organize the Turkish cavalry,
and then was attached to Lord Elgln's
back to England tho first treaty be- bee
tween that power and Great Britain.
The indiSnities to which he had been
subjected In China while acting as sec
sy were the determining cause in the
march Of the allied Anglo French force
upon Picking a little over fifty years
ago: march which resulted In the oc-
cupation of the Chinese metropolis. and
| in the destruction of the world famed
summer palace of the Emperors OF
China. He took part in this expedi-
ton. and was thus ablo to witness the
reprisals for the treatment to which
he had been subjected
Loeb had been captured a year or so
previously by the Chinese, with Lord
Elgin's interpreter, Mr.. afterwards
Sir) Harry Parkes, who died rs min
lister at Picking, and Mr.. Bowley. the
! correspondent OF the London Times.
Bowley was put to death In the most
shocking fashion, after being subject
ed to all sorts OF devilish torIures; and
while the London Times published a
full description thereof, printed for the
benefit OF the British public. 1t went
to the trouble of having an entire pa
per of the same date printed special
ly In which all references to the tor
lures were omitted, and only the news
OF Bowley's gallant and instant death.
In an open fight was enthusiastically
mentioned. for the use of his widowed
mother. who lived in some remote
Welsh village. where no one was like
ly to undeceive her.
Loeb and Parkcs were heavily man
acied. an iron collar around their necks