The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-27
QUEEN PAYS HONOR
TO WIFE OF
Ia MARQUIsE DE FoNTENoY.

ny La MARQUISE DE FoNTENoY.
81 . oueen mas lust bestowed the
/ lady in waiting. upon d very
charming Irish woman. namely.
upon Nine; Mareoni. the Hibernian vile
wireless telegraphy. who is himself
the son of an Irish mother
The honor mas come to Nine. Mar
COM as one OF the nrst rewards con-
war between Italy and Turkey. as a
recognition OF the intellectually val
uaple services rendered by her hus-
Panas inventions and devices to the
Italian forces on land and at sea. 1t
Is no eXaggeration, indeed. 10 assert
mat the wireless telegraphy of Mar
COM mas doubled the fight!ng strength
OF Italy In her conflict with Turkey
Nine. Marconi was known prior to
her marriage as the Hon. Beatrice
OBrien, and is one OF the fourteen
children OF the late Lord Inchiquin;
ORD. VINO is stiil %prouder. however. OF
his title OF The O'Brien. that is TO say,
OF being the chieftain OF all the
oBriens, than OF his peerage and OF
Signor Marconi himself is the son
OF a leading banker OF Bologna, who
married, at Nice. Annie, youngest
Daphne Castle. and Fairneld. Ennis
corthy, County Wexford. William Mar
conf. the inventor. is the younger of
the Two SONS OF tnlS marriage. lie was
at one time engaged TO Miss Josephine
Holman. OF Indiana, but the engage
inent was broke of. Then there was
a widely circulated and printed report
TO the effect that he was about to
marry Miss Nina NIcGillivray. But he
finally led to the altar the sister of
Lord Inchiquin.
The latter has inherited, along with
Dromoland Castle, in County Clare.
near the Irish village Of Newmarket,
the unique ~prerogative to make use
for his servants. q privilege which is
confined. with this exception, to the
master of the horse to the King (now
Lord Granard) during his term of Of
flee. The privilege was granted to
Burrough O'Brien, first Lord Inchiquin,
a brother of that Conner O'Brien who
was the last lawful King OF Thomond.
Burrough .O'Brien usurped the throne
OF Thomond, on his brother Connor's
King Henry VIII. The latter present
Inchiquin and the earldom of Thomond.
along with the hereditary use of the
royal livery, the patent expressly
s sd t 10 the lnat LORDS loe inahiaTin va as g acnm-
p%ensation for their giving up the
sovereignty over the south of Ireland"
Until that time the portion of the
Emerald Isle now known as County
Glare and County Cork were known as
O'Brien's country and as Thomond's
country.
Inc pdtcIto hiGltQ W I1enIy Will.
provided thai the barony of Inchiquin
should pass along. with the right 10
the royal l~iverles, to the first lords
son, but that the earldom of Thomond
should go to his nephew, son of the
last lawful King of Thomond, and
whose succession to the throne has
been set aside and usurped by his
uncle. The earldom of Thomond de-
scended in a direct line until the
eighteenth century, when the eighth
Earl of Thomond died without issue.
Since then the earldom has been DOR
mant. and 1t is on the cards that the
crown may one of these days call 1t
out of allegiance, or otherwise revive
it in favor of the present Lord Inchi-
quin.
The Gladstone administration in the
carly seventies offered to get this done
for the late Lord Inchiquin. But he
declined to accept the favor at the
hands of any but his own political
party, namely, the Conservatives, and
the latter, when they came into Office,
did not care to make him this con-
c~ession. owing to tho vigorous manner
in which he criticized their Irish lcgis-
lation.
The Lords Inchiauin have served
their country well. some of them MS
adnirals, some of them as distinguish
ed soldiers. and others as statesmen.
One OF them followSS Charles II. into