New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-05
HIA|RD OF COCKPEN" HERE
Earl Of DaIhouSie Has Many
American Associations.

-.,riqht 1912. by the Brentwood Company
~ York is at present harboring at the
,t.z-Carlton Hotel peer who goes
ir,ouebout Scotland by the nickname of
-. aird OF Cockpen." His real title
~ no was careful to conceal while
.ss,rq the Atlantic on the Mauretania, is
49,, ~ Dslhoasie, and twenty-five years
there was no British title more widely
rooUn in America, and especially in New
~ society. than his, for his parents
srAnt much Of their time on this side Of
~. water. were familiar figures on Fifth
.vanue, and II was on landing at Havre,
Ter q stay of several months over here,
,hs, both died at a Havre hotel with such
s,omatic suddenness, within few hours of
.och other. as TO give rise to an unfounded
r,mor of suicide.
The late Countess Of Dalhousie was a re-
,,orkablv beautiful woman, a sister 81 the
resent Earl of Tankerville. and with a
s,rong strain in her veins of the blood of
ave French ducal house Of De Grammont.
which is famous in history for the remark
ably good looks Of its members. II was
taSv Dalhousie who died first at Havre, II
q NOW believed of ptomaine poisoning. and
hsr husband was so affected by the shock
that he succumbed on the same day, pre-
sun,ably of some heart trouble. They left
q family of five small boys the eldest about
Ten wears old, who were brought UP with
the utmost care and affecuon by their
fs,her's younger brother. the Hon. Charles
RAMSAY. and by his American wife, Estele
garrison, daughter of the late William r.
garrison. She died about five years ago,
,.,y No cbildrer Of her own
Charles Ramsay visits New York almost
svsrv wear in connection with his American
financial interests He was subjected soon
after his elder brothers death to a most
,rn,erited affront. Some American belong
,ne 70 the Knickerbocker Club. in New
yo-t who had been put up for member
chin AZ the Bachelors Club, in London. had
hAsr turned down. and although Ramsay
had nothing 10 do with the matter. as ne
did not belong to the Bachelors and was in
the United States at the time. Yet when
nronosed for election at the Knickerbocker
he was blackballed as a matter Of spite,
simply because he was a London cluhman.
II | mention this II Is because II created
for number Of years afterward an amount
Of III feeling in English clubland that rem
dered the election or admission 10 tenn
norarv membership of Americans TO the
6rst class London clubs a matter OF much
difficulty.
The late Earl Of Dslhousie was an ardent
Home Ruler. having followed Gladstone
when the memorable break took place IN
the Liberal camp q year before the for
r,Ar's death. Charles Ramsay. however.
or Incoming the guardian Of his young
nenhevs and the administrator of the Dal-
bousie estates in Scotland, some 100"
ceres in extent, entered Parliament as
I-rionist. So we'll did he manage his wards
property that, although 1t was heavily en-
numbered when he took charge. all the
nortgas yes had been paid Oft by the time the
present earl came of age. and he entered
into possession Of clear income of SSOoc
year.
Tho present Lord Dalhousie Is thirty-hve
wears old. He served through the Boer war
as a subaltarn OF the Scots Guards, and IL
married 10 a very pretty woman, sister OF
The present Earl Of Ancaster, whose wire
was Miss Eloise Breese. of New YORK. he
has son OF eight years. who bears the
title OF Lord Ramsay.
One OF the earl's brothers, the Hon rat
r.t Ramsay. is in the diplomatic service
and was attached for time 10 the Brtlsh
Embassy al Washington. Another orother'
Alexander, Is lieutenant in the Royal
NAVY, and IS attached to the star or the
Duke Of Connaught, Governor General Oh
Canada. as 4. D. g II is mainly TOT the
purpose Of visiting him AT Ottawa that Loru
Dslhousie has lust crossed the Atlanuc'
Tn. ,.opnzest brother Fox Ramsay, is'
believe a stockbroker in London ne was
me - tu,irs but the other. Ronald, SUB
alter, Of the Scots Guards. disappeared
nvsteriouslv from aboard the Hamburg
American liner Cleveland, within day OF
reaching Plymouth. on his way back 20
England from an enjoyable VISIT 10 this
country No one had seen him jump over
hoard. but a letter found IN his cabin ad-
drsssed 10 his uncle Charles, bidding MIN
farewell and thanking him In the most
touching manner for all that he had done
for 'us bows" left no doubt as TO It's being
a ease of suicide. What cause there could
have heen for the act remains mystery
az no monetary troubles or feminine en-
tanglements were known. He left, indeed
some $4,000 deposited in London bank
NAV mention. as illustrating once more
in these letters the peculiar sympathy ex-
,sting between twins. that Fox was the
only one of his brothers to whom the dead
MAJ left a message OF afHction;
NARQUISE DE FONTENOf.