New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-02
LORD ANNESLEY DUE
Bound for New York on Robert
E. T0d'S Yacht.

coges for New York on board the three
masted schooner yacht Katrina as one Of
,,s guests Of Commodore Robert T.. Tod
n the New York Yacht Club is one of the
large land owners Of Ireland. his estates
!, County Down alone extending over an
area Of some 10000 acres. II he has
,sken no part i'm public life and has failed
"a follow the example of the former earls
u his house i'm serving in the army, it is
hocause he has suffered from infancy from
. somewhat serious impeachment in his
,oeech. resembling. by curious coinci-
asnce. his father in this respect, for the
st,h Lord Annesley during the Crimean
Var. at the battle of the Alma. had his
bv smashed by q Russian bullet, which
.ook off part of the tongue and twenty
four teeth.
Klnglake. in his history OF the Crimean
war. speaks of the courage and composure
w,,h which the young subaltern of the
cots Guards bore injuries which, espe-
cisny in those days of surgery, seemed so
,rr.nediable as 10 render death release.
yet the wounded man survived for more
han half century. marrying zen sec
ordes noces" at the age of siXty-one a
famous beauty forty years his junior,
aauehter OF William Armitage Moore, OF
Arnnlore, who used to be known in Dub
lin society as Pretty Priscilla"
The present Lord Annesley is a son OF
,he first marriage and until his fathers
death in 1909. bore the name OF Niscount
cleravlv. iaw-breaking one. indeed.
This title is entirely due 10 clerical
error. The name should have been Glen
,vley. after a place in County Fermsn-
,gh but the clerk intrusted with the
7ri,ing out OF the patent of creation
wrote the word wrong, and as the error
COS discovered only after the document
"a r.coived the sign manual Of the SOW
.re,e, II was too late to change II. con-
..ouont,v the earls Of Annesley possess
among their minor honors the Niscouh'E
= Glerawly-a place that has no exist
ence
Possessed of an income estimated at
,ssnoN. Lord Annesley makes his princi-
al home at Castle Wellam, splendid
.-ani,e structure nesting among the
Mountains of the old kingdom OF Mourhe'
The estate including within It's bordeIS
.he quaint old town OF Castle "ellam' rs
we'll as the seaside resort and port OF
vevcastle. i'm County Down. The castle
,ark Is celebrated for it's trees. The milo
climate Of Ireland and the sheltered ma
lure Of the locality have enabled ar
Horticulture to be carried on there with
success unusual in Northern Europe, anu
., the International Sylyiculture con-
eress held twenty years ago In LONDON
il was demonstrated that nowhere else IN
the world excepting in some parts Oh
Brittany, IS there gathered such Woh-
derful number Of rare and varied trees
Not long ago announcement was made
that DR.. Augustus Henry, the Chinese OK
plorer and expert in Chinese matters had
discovered an entirely new pine IN the
Chumbi Valley Of Tibet; but subsequent
Investigation brought to light the fact
that there were no ,ess than dozen
spccimens of this tree fiourishing at Cas-
tie Wellan. grown from seeds sent 70 inc
late carl from the Indian Himalayas' ana
named Picea Annesleyana. Castle WEI
Ian, has for the last quarter OF a century
beer familiar 10 every American expert IN
forestry and curious shrubs, and the pres
emf earl has continued his fathers prac-
flee Of never allowing year 10 pass
without planting thousands of them.
Lord Annesley. who is twenty eight years
old. fss no children by his marriage u
the Gidowed daughter OF A. Il. Miller
Mudy. He is descended from Richard ie
Br,,on. who accompanied the count OF
yaine 10 England at the Norman con-
ouest. and received from him the Iorc-
hin OF Annesley, in Nottinghamshire' DC
ing an recorded in the Doomsday BOOK
sir Francis Annesley was employed In
Ire,a nd nv James as Secretary OF state
and having acquired by royal grant ana
by purchase estates IN fifteen lTish cou'-
lies founded the Irish branch Of the ram
fly and was created Viscount Nalenua ana
l.ord Mountnorris. it was the GRANDSON
Of his younger son, Francis, VINO was
created by George III Baron Annesley' anu
by George III Viscount Glerawly, ms son
icing advanced 10 the earldom or An
neslev. The head of the senior branch OF
he family is Viscount Valentia, Con-
seryat.ve Member of Parliament for OH-
ord. and one Of the few Irish peers who
occupy seats I'm the House of Commons.
Master Of the Kilkenny Hunt.
Accompanying Lord Annesley on the
Karins is Major Sir Hercules Langrishe.
a prominent member of England's pre-
mier yacht club, the Royal Yacht Squad
ron, owner OF Knocktopher Abbey, III
Kilkenny, who has achieved some ceieD-
rity as a master of the Kilkenny Fox
hounds and as q polo player. lie is mar
RED 10 a daughter of the Right Hon, t1tz-
william Hume Dick, OF Humewood, County
Wicklow. The name OF Langrishe Is IA
miliar TO students Of history, owing 10
the part played by one Hercules Lang
rishe, carver in ordinary to queen men
rIetta Maria, who prevented the arrest oi
the Eve members of the House or Com
mons BIZ sending warning Of the King $
intended visit to the Parliament House.
The first baronet, another Sir Hercules
Langr,she was a Member OF Parliament
for the Borough OF Knocktopher IN the
Irish Parliament at the beginning Of the
reign OF George III, distinguished himself
by his championship OF the irish Roman
Catholics, and was the first to Initiate
and secure measures TO relieve them from
the terribly tyrannical laws TO which
they were then subjected. He was the
correspondent to whom Edmund Burke
addressed some OF his most celebrated
letters. and was associated with Grattan
and Flood in the production OF 'Bara-
tariana" a collection Of bitter attacks in