The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-11
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vres.uent OF lhe Nationai ttttic .Asso-
station. II Responsible Lor tue civuiun
! fIils club movement, having brought
! into existence more than 4 thousand
/ oil these rifle cubs. VITA i member
! snip OF near 100000. iIe mas also prayed
| u leading role in the rifle Shooting
| contests between the AIothcriald and
! the Colonial Dependencies. at Bislcy,
and has moreover. started school
! boys Bisley He has written much on
! military subjects. has served several
! term AS mayor OF the important
/ borough OF Westminster and in Ire
land has. with Lady Cheylesmore.
! started afreSh the doll Industry, by
means OF which many irish peasant
women arr able TO add considerably
| to the resources OF their families.
| Lord Cheylesmorc is not only mar
! ried to an American but has an Amer
! lean mother She wac a daughter of
Thomas Leader Hartman OF New Or
leans liar husband was only raised
10 the pceraSc as Lord Chcyiesmore
| ton years after her death, and when
| she married him he mas Henry VIII
| liam Eaton. Member IF Parliament for
Coventry. and owner of one of the very
largest ribbon concerns of that ancient
city. so famous as a centre of the silk
ribbon industry In England. In fact,
the American money which Miss ITar-
man brought 10 her husband served
TO largely develop the foundation and
success of the great ribbon manufac-
turing company OF II. W. Eaton &; Soa
, Of Coventry,
! 'rhe first Lord Cheylesmore made his
home N the manor OF Cheyleamore.
! near Coventry, country place when
| has belonged in turn to Edward the
| Black Prince. the King Maker Ear
| Of Warwick, the Percy Dukes of North
cumberland and the MarqucsSeS Of
Hartford, from whom the first Lord
Cheylesmore purchased it. He uas tor
/ many years, prominent member of
| the Four-in- Hand Club In London, at
] the meetings Of which his brown coach
! and four superb bays were always q
prominent feature. He had some mark ii
pcr.cnaI characteristics not the least
Of which was mis- habit of wearing a
monoclc screwed into the brim of his
high silk hat. instead Of being held
by him pressed und ar the eyebrow, in
the ordinary fashion. He was succeeded
on his death by his oldest son. VII
| liam, who died unmarried twelve
| months later, thus bringing mis- next
| son Major General Herbert Eaton, OF
| til. Greuadicr Guards, to the peeragc
| and cstitcs.
| Owing to the signal defeat sustained
| by Lord Cheylesmore before his &C.
cession TO the peerage. when he stood
! for Parliament as member iof Io'
entry. he lost interest In the city, TO
| the prosperity of which his father, and
| eidcr brother had so largely con'rio-
uted So abandoning the manor OF
! Chcylesnore, he began by leasing for
a term OF years. Hughcndcn Manor,
the country seat in Bucks tiat mad
h .Ionged TO Lord Beaconsiield. This
| had the effect of bringing Lord and
Lady Cheylesmorc wiihin visiting as
lance of Winsor Castle Queen VIC
! ,oria and the other members OF ncr
family took Very kindly TO them and ere
| long the CHI eylesmorcs were included
chat eT lsorIa Of t5ena as
neighbours" and whom she was ac-
customcd to invite to all sorts OF pri-
vate entertainments at windsor, espec,
tally when therc were any special
e eoHnrnin at the Castle With r,,ns
E.d,> ard. Lord Cheylesmore had been
on terms of intimacy when the for.
| after his accession 10 the throne this
! intimacy was maintained, while the
| Cheylesmores arc personae grata at
the court of King George and Queen
Mary.
Since the termination of the Chey-
lcsnores lease OF Hughcnden, they have
purchased the picturesque Coopers
! Hill estate ut Egham for so long used
| by the Government as q college, main
tanned by the Government for the pre-
paration of Indian civil servants. I'M
mortalized by Pope in his poem win
! sor Forest" 1t was once, If my memory
! serves me Alright the country home
! of Warren Hastings. and with the re-
| moval of number of unsightly modern
| grounds and lakes to their old time
| duties the place Is being converted
once moro into one of the most pic
! tureSque and stately country seats IN
| England.
! Lord Cheylesmorc met and won his
! wifi. AT Bermuda. One of the hattali3nS
| OF Guards had got out OF hand nj Vel
lington barracks in the immediate
| vicinity OF Buckingham Palace ii
! London. The officer in command was
! superseded by the then Colonel Her
| bert Eaton, as best qualified 10 re-
| store tn. discipline and the proper
spirit of the men who were banishcd
to Bermuda, Colonel Eaton. a singular
~ good looking. well set up Guards
man. became exceedingly popular at
| Bermuda, and having made tho ac-
| quaintancs OF Miss Elizabeth French
! who had come on from New York to
| spend few weeks there with some
OF her relatives. he managed TO win
her heart and her hand, marrying her
in New York, in 1892.
Needless to add that in the troubles
| which cnsued between his wife's Sis
| ter and the lattcr's husband Alfred
Vanderbilt, Lord Cheylesmors sided
very strongly with his sister in law,
and one OF the incidents which pre-
csded the fnal break up between nus
band and wife, was the som swhat
sensational refusal OF Lord Cheylcs-
more and his wife to stay any longer
under the roof of Alfred Vanderbilt
ana the cutting short Of their visit
OWNS TO the unhnppiness of Mrs. Van.
| drrbilt The prejudice of Lord Chey-
lesmore against Alfred Vanderbilt has
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