New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-11
. LORD LYVEDEN DUE
plans of the British Peer Who
Arrives To-day.

'Oy IrrS Lyveden. who arrives IN New
d,v on board the Majestic Tor
% a,,rnose of inducing some rich Ainer'-
uo ,ate mart in a cruise In the Far
cSn :, the companionship Of several
a,,,Ied personages" already secured 'he
=, take place under the auspices Oh
w. Travel Club. Of which he is president
r' Granger here. At the time OF the
ID, worlds Fair and on several
o. aio,s since. he organized and brought
tnis country large parties OF EngIlsh
nIc,,aI dgnitaries, acting az their
N NE throughout their trip in the
United states.
Tau breezy. with plenty of wit ana
.,nyersatior Lord Lyveden was parucu-
-. veil qualified for this task by his
LIVER American experiences, which,
's.nch not up'que were at any rate I'M
III Porn me son Of the Rev. Courte-
~ rohn Vernon, ne was intended for the
- Failing to pass his examination
=. commission. he enlisted as pri-
..,s IN the Royal Artillery, from which
- .ecur 8 his discharge a year later
,,ropgh purchase. He then became an
sc,or an n 1882 appeared at the Hay
s..rsat rler the management Of Sir
.1r,r, RI, ,roft in the role of Captain
ssabright II The Overland Route"
Finding a as histrionic talents were
80, snprec at what he considered
,s.,- truth o. b. at any rate in tinan-
clsl sense CINE TO America as hrst
,ahn passe ger landing with less than
,po IN his p ket He turned his hand TO
,,s first fob hat presented Itself and
v.sk ter wtr "slinging hash in cheap
rs.,surant In the Bowery. Leaving this
"a made his " dnwn to Charlotte. y. c.
,rhere he was out out Of his hotel for
,on.paynent OF 1is bill. making, however
90 .xcerent an IN oression on the man
,vsment that in tesd Of making him any
trouble they act tily offered him assist
ance.
The next day Y ung Vernon obtained a
Nah as hack drive and did so well that
bs was able 10 by share in small
Asbing boat at ChsrIeton. \. c., which
foundered in a storm 1885. Then ne
worked as a printer n the composing
roor Of a Charleston newspaper. aban-
doninr that 70 Join theatrical troupe.
With which he toured the country. Re-
urnlng 10 England, re became the lead
ing man Of Frank Hills Diplomacy
company and. marrying soon after set
tied down as a nursery gardener near
stsnvick. at Higham- Ferrers. an enter
mise that landed him IN the bankruptcy
court. This disguised BIN with the SIM
Me life. and accordingly NE shipped as
assistant steward. first on vessels run
ming between Holyhead snd Dublin and
sfterward on the City Of Paris As as
ylstant steward he visited Rio Dc Janeiro
and Puenos Ayres, where he contracted
yellow fever. and al the time when he
succeeded 20 his uncle's peerage, though
not 10 his property, ne was chief steward
on one Of the boats Of the General Steam
Navigation Company running between
Haryich and Hamburg.
z he failed to benefit financially TO any
exhqtby his accession TO me title, II was
bee, use his uncle and predecessor left
everything he possibly could 10 his young
wldog. who was about fifty years his
iln.a The late lord was considerably
over sventy when he married as his Sec
end VIE the daughter OF p pastry cook
az Hastings. whom he took from behind
her fane-'v counter 10 act as his reader
and snlanuensis. but e'tri by making
her his wife The disparity Of age be-
tween tbs strange pair vas rendered
still more marked by the fact that at the
time Of tix wedding the old lord was so
infrm that ne had 20 be wheeled about in
a chair
Since his succession 10 the family hon
ors, twelve years ago Lord LyveGen has
been active in all sorts OF enterprises
with more or less success. i few years
ago he received the order o. the Crown
from the German Emperor Tor his SER
vices In plotting party of more than
hundred provincial British mayors
through Germany. with the iiea Of pro-
noting Anglo-Germsn friendsl ip, and has
held captainc. in the Militia (now Ter
ritorial) Battalion OF the Highland Light
Infantry Regiment
Strictly speaking the family name is
Smith, and the frt Lord Lyveden, who
owed his peerage 10 his services as Sec
retary OF State for var. secured in 1916
permission from the Gro VI to assume in
stead the name Vernon which had been
hat Of his mother The hrst lords father
Robert Smith, was Aembe- OF Par
lament for Lincoln and a brother Of the
Rev Sydney Smith, Canon OF St Pauls
cathedral and famous as wit and for
his hostility to everything American.