New-York tribune., 1912-01-23
MRS. LACK" LESLIE
oonard JerOme'S Daughter Re-
tlrninu to Visit New York.

turning 10 WISH view IOFK.
c,,rright 1912 by the Brentwood Company
~ John Leslie, who is due I'm New
- to-day from England, belongs 10 the
i immediate entouragc of the Duchess
p,ronnaught now staying, with the Duke
p,incess Patricia, her daughter as the
'' rs NJ Ambassador Whitelaw Reid, at
=. borse in Madison avenue. In fact. Mrs.
~, Leslie is the only American born
'' ,,,n who has ever held an appointment
Tho Court of st. Jamess, having attended
=. nucbess Of Connaught as lady-in-wait
~ ~. m the occasion of her trip to India
AN the Duke. to be present at the great
n.,bar held in 1908. for the proclamation
;, rsvsrd VII as Emperor Of India. Mrs.
,.slls is a daughter of Leonard Jerome,
!, New York. and her two sisters are Mrs.
,,.,ton Frewen and Mrs George Corn
ouis West, better known by her former
..o,e Of Lady Randolph Churchill. AL
,.oueh Mrs West is a most gifted musi-
ian Mrs Leslie whose Christian name
!, IAone, Is her superior in this respect.
she IS almost as much at home in Paris
,s in London. usually accompanying the
,vpeditions in the French capital.
Mrs Leslies husband Colonel Leslie. was
,ormerly in the Grenadier Guards. has
b.ep high sheriff Of his native county of
uopsgban. is one of the pillars of the Turf
club. in London, and makes his home In
1nndon al No. 10 Great Cumberland Place.
He has inherited the good looks of his
wonderful old father and mother, and. as
his American wife. like her sisters is a
lark brOwed. handsome woman. his four
boys may be said 10 have come by their
loneliness through descent. On the death
of his father. now ninety years of age.
colonel Leslie will inherit his baronetcy
and likewise Castle Leslie. sometimes
known as Glaslough. which has been In the
family Of this branch Of the Scotch house
Of Leslie ever since IL settled in County
Monaghan, in the reign OF Charles II.
Sir John Leslie is generally believed to
have been the original of Give Newcome.
Of Thackeray, whose intimate friendship he
snjoyed, He was originally a captain OF
the lst Life Guards. but. to the horror of
his relatives, abandoned the army in order
to devote himself 10 painting and managed
brush until the death of his elder brother
a 1871 put him in possession of a consid-
sable fortune and Of the Glaslough estates
u the family in County Monaghan.
he is the last survivor of the little band of
Ne-Raphaelites who more than fifty years
sgo used TO assemble weekly at a club I'm
Charles street Berkeley Square, among the
distinguished members of the coterie being
Ruskln, Sir John Millais, George Cavendish
Bsntinck, Augustus Saville, Rossetti.
Watts. Thackeray. etc.
To Irishmen It must be a subject of
friendly interest that Sir John Leslie would
to-day be a peer of the realm were it not
for the fact that his father. as the most
Important land owner Of the County Mona
CHAN. voted against the union, more than a
hundred years ago. declining the viscounty
which was offered TO him by the govern
msnt If he would vote in its favor There
is still in existence in Ireland a book, 10
b found especially in the hands Of the
Roman Catholic clergy, containing what is
called a black and white list-in other
words a list of those who voted for and
against the union. Sir John Leslie's father
figures In the white list And that Is why
The name Of Leslie of Glaslough is honored
10 this day throughout the length and
sreadth of the Emerald Isle-always ex-
tepting Ulster.
The Leslie family is generally under
rOod 10 have been founded by a IIungar-
an noblemau. who escorted Queen Mar
pret of Scotland in 1851 She rode behind
I'm on a piIion, and while crossing a
rsam almost slipped of. Grip fast
red he. and the Queen coolly replied.
Gin the buckle bids Gf the buckle
sldsD This is the traditional origin Of
" John Leslie's family crest-namely, a
rckle and Of his family motto, which is
Grip fast"
Sir John Leslies branch Of the family
,ss founded by the Right Reverend Or.
bin Leslie. Bishop Of the Isles, in Scot
and who was translated to the See OF
Gogher. in Ireland, where he built for
himself Castle Leslie, or Glaslough, in
County Monaghan. This Bishop, who was
inown as "the fghting Bishop" in the
wlgn Of Charles I married, at the age of
pventy. a girl of eighteen, by whom he
lad a family of ten children, and when he
rent 70 London for the restoration of
Charles IT II IS recorded Of him that he
todo from Chester to London in twenty
loGr hours on horseback, in spite OF his
ninety years. lie lived 10 a hundred. and
bis son the Rev. Charles Leslie, of Glas-
gov, was 50 Jealous in behalf Of James il
afte- tho revolution that II is said OF MN
b history that ne started the war in
Ireland which terminated in the battle OF
he Bone Sir John Leslie is his great
|reat-grandson,
Lady Constance Leslie IS a sister or the
|curth Earl of Portarlington. and daugh-
|ef of that Minnie Seymour who was the
|dopted daughter Of Mrs. Fitzherbert. and
b George ~ Minnie Seymour was the
Aild OF Lord Hugh Seymour, younger soI
b the arst Marquis of Hertford. His VIE
Hcrsus, was the loveliest Of the three
BEAUTIFUL Ladies Waldegrave, stepdaugh-
hers OF the Royal Duke of Gloucester
Lady Horatia Seymour was extremely
telicate, and was taken by her husband 10
Madeira Tne TWO elder children they TOOK
With them The Youngest, Minnie, then a
baby of eighteen months, was LETT unoer
The charge Of Mrs. FitZherbert. l>oru II ush
vas the naval aide-de-camp OF George w.
ihen Prince Regent and had thus come 10
know and 10 like very much tne Iaoy
ghom his master had secretly "eddeu &C.
Realistically. but who was not MS "'le III
Ihw
Lord Hugh and Lady Horatia seymour
eed within a few months OF each o'her
md when the VIII OF the former came "
and It was found that the elder ch''ore"
srre left TO the guardianship OF their uil-
ees, Lord Euston and Lord Henry 0eS-
nour. Minnie was not named, as she was
iol born when the will was made anu
I hen the executors asked for the surreh-
o'f Ct this child by Mrs. Fitzheroert' the
tier VINO had become devotedly attacheu
. the little girl insisted on retaining ner'
lae Prince OF Wales sided with MIS-. fl'~-
herbert and the case was carried INTO
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