New-York tribune., 1912-02-09
Nisoount seIby Now Aere.

Visoount SeIby Now Here.
V.vcount selbv, who arrived III ->cw York
the day before yesterday with Lady seib''
from England ON board the German hne'
Eronprinz Wilhelm, was the eldest son II
the Right Hon. William Court Gully. who
was for So many years Speaker of the
House Of Commons, and is great-grandSoh
Of John Gully, the celebrated prizetighter,
lgokmako~ and Derby winner. lie enjoys
t1r experience shared Dog the Earl Russell.
H,t otherwise unique among the members
pg the House Of Lords. Of having undergone
T.. term of Imprisonment. Whereas Lord
Russell however. suffered incarceration for
b.gamv. owing 20 the rnvaldity of his
American divorce and marriage Lord Sci
bsS detention in Jail was ou d charge OF
suerc contempt of court
10 was perpctratcd in connection with the
..eduction Of his own daughter, the child
icing "a ward Of chancery. Had not the
rtI been ward Of chancery there would
have been no case against him, and that
.as matter was not regarded very serious
J.. in London is best shown by the fact that
le .tiu retains his membership Of the Bar.
or Hrookey. Of the Garrch and Of other
rId-egabHghcd London clubs, TO which he
ne'ouaod
Lord Sclbye first marriage. 20 a Mss
Tiuo had been an unhappy ono, and the
couple had separated, not through any de-
cisiOu Of the divorce court, but merely
uy private agreement. drawn up by his
aud her lawyers Both had stipulated that
tic young daughter of the marriage shohId
Uc made a ward in chancery, that is to
cay Of the Lord High Chancellor The
latter. as Doe Invariably docs IN response
10 such appeals had accepted the trust,
and had ordered that the child should live
part Of the time with her mother and part
OF the time with her grandfathcr, the late
Lord Solby. The childs father violated
this order, when he carried off the child
with him from his fathers house to an
island on the coast Of Sweden, and was
iu consequence punished on his return to
England for contempt Of court in abduct-
ing a ward Of the Lord High Chancellor,
even though the ward in question was his
"wIt little daughtc:
IN lS03 Lord Selby. who had not tben
succeeded 10 his fathers peerage, man
ged 10 bring about a dissolution Of his
union 10 bis first wife by the divorce court
and three months later the presiding Judge
Of the divorce court availed himself OF
privilege with which he is endowed by
law but which he was not generally known
10 possess, 60 max. absolute the decree
nisi, without waiting for the customary
siA months To eIapse Ii seems that law,
dating from 1856, runs as follows:
No decree nisi for a divorce shall be
made absolute until after the expiration
Of six calendar months from the pro-
uouncing thereof. unless the court shall
under the power now vested in it fix a
shorter time"
Immediately upon the decree being made
absolute Lord Shelby married a woman to
whom he had long been devoted, Miss
Dorothy Grey, first in the Registry Office
Of St Georges Hanover Square, London,
the union afterward receiving the blessing
Of the Church, at St Paurs. Onslow
Square, at the hands of Inc Rev. L. 5.
buchanan, of that parish The present
NiscOuntess Selby IL a daughter Of the late
Sir William Grey, a cousin OF Earl Grey
and sister Of the beautiful Lady Eden.
Of Maryland. vino has been painted In turn
by Whistler and by Sargent. Lady Selby
10 an aunt therefore. OF Lady Eden s
daughter Margaret, married IN 1909 70 Lord
Brooke, eldest son and heir Of the Earl OF
Warwick