New-York tribune., 1912-11-04
WIFE SUES LORD LOUTH
Divorce Wanted from Peer Well
Known Here.

oropyrisht 1912, by the Brentwood Company
both Lord and Lady Louth have so
many American friends, made in this
country, in England and Ireland and at
piarritz, that 1t may be Of interest to
coll attention to the fact that their mat
ri,,onial differences are now engaging the
attention Of the divorce court in London
and that Lady Louth is seeking disso-
1ution of her marriage. She Is daughter
os the late Captain Edmund Bellairs, so
,ope British Consul at Biarritz, at whose
beautiful Villa de Mouriscot there, now
Ieased TO Princess Frederica of Hanover.
King Alfonso of Spain became affianced
IA Princess Ena of Battenberg.
Lord Louth was in this country a year
sgo, ard was a conspicuous figure at the
Great national horse show in Madison
Square Garden last November, after
which he travelled through the United
states and Canada. He is one of the
most popular and sport loving of Irish
rsers OF old creation, his barony, which
does not carry with it seat in the House
~ Lords. dating from the reign of
Henry VIII
Fourteenth bearer OF the title, and de-
scepded. like the Earl of Fingall and Lord
Dpnsspy, from that John Plunkett VINO
os,sbIished himself at Bewly, County
Iortb. about the end of the eleventh
oor,urv. he was born at sea, on board his
ratber's Yacht, the Pilgrim, whence his
oad Christian name of Pilgrim and his
membership Of the East London parish
~ stepney; for, according TO ancient
laws of the reign OF Queen Elizabeth, all
r,,g,isb people born at sea under the
rpSlisb flag have their births entered In
.ha register OF the Thames riverside
payish Of stepney.
stepney in those days was one OF the
rr,ncIpal anchorages Of the great port
~ London. This law sometimes leads 10
neculiar condition Of affairs, There is
a, Australian statesman, now holding the
a rns,t,or Of Premier in one Of the states
~ the commonwealth. whose birth, like
,bet Of his father before him, had been
registered at Stepney, although neither
Of them had ever set foot in England
, until the younger OF the two came 10
% Jnndon two years ago for the coronatoh
.s II is, perhaps, because he was born on
. Yacht that Lord Louth Is so fond OF
Yachting and Of outdoor life. He is equal
" AZ home in the saddle, has been master
~ the Louth hounds ever since he came
, Of age twenty-five years ago. and win
MS equally hard riding wife, has hitherto
maintained the great traditions OF County
. T o,Itb in the matter Of fox hunting. he
served for a time in the army as SUD
sItern Of the Wiltshire regiment popu-
,sr,v known as 'the Springers," but re-
signed his commission on marrying IN
order 10 devote himself to his estates
which have been in the possession OF his
family for hundreds OF years and which
extend over an area Of some eight thou
sand acres around his ancestral home,
Iouth Hall. embracing the neighboring
town Of Ardee.
There is another Lady Louth in exist
ence besides his wife. She is the second
wife and the widow of his father, the
thirteenth lord: therefore his stepmother
Lord Louth, like his forbears, is a
Roman Catholic Indeed, his family
suffered much by reason Of their faith
and of their loyalty TO the Stuarts. The
sixth lord was kept for many years i'm
prisoned in Dublin Castle by order OF
Cromwell. and his son, the seventh lord
was outlawed for throwing in his lot
with James II and attaching himself TO
the Iatter's fortunes. Nor was it until
the end of the eighteenth century that
the attainder was repealed in favor OF
Thomas PlUnkett. who was established
An his rank in the peerage as eleventh