The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-26
SCIONS OF ROYALTY
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ago at the Instance of his friend, S1r.
Gladstone His fellow ouakers did not
consider It consistent with their rules
and principles. For q baronetoy car
RIGS with 1t, not only the implied. but
| tho express obligation of military SER
vice. typllicd by the blood-stained hand
which is tho distinctive heraldic badge
OF every baronet
| The Quaker Book OF Discipline and
Advices" warns Quakers against &C
| cepting the office of magistrate, which
| involves the performance OF acts of so
| objectionable character as the adj
ministration of oaths, the calling out
OF IN armed forcs In cases Of civil com
motion, and the discharge of military
/ functions relative to the army and
militia" The Book OF Discipline" also
dcprecates political party spirit. and re-
minds in this connection the Friends Of
| the peculiar dangers and temptations
incident TO public Offices generally, and
particularly OF the risk OF allowing
! themselves to be introduced into tho
ranks of political partisans, lest they
| thereby eudaugcr that watchfulness,
that ouietness OF spirit and that char
| ity which are so essential to the Chris
| tian character.
! All this does not prevent the late Sir
| 1heodorc's eldest son and successor.
now Sir John Fry, of Beech Hanger
! Court. Surrey, and Of Great Ayton, York
shire, from being a very active member
of the Liberal party, ii county masis-
tratc and deputy lieutenant, which
enables him to wear q sword, cooked
hat ana military unlform-that of
! brigadier general OF the militia, or of
ita twentieth century substitute. the
| territorial army-and even take very
active part in tho organiza ton of the
latter.
| Sir Aubrey Dean Paul, who has just
] made very successfully his profess
: sional debut, with his wife, Lady PAU,
on the concert stage in London. he as
q singer of ballads and she as u Won
| derfully talented violinlst, has been
driven to adopt this means of earning
a livelihood. by the very heavy legal
! expenses IN connection with the de L.
/ tense OF his wife against the suit for
libel brought against her by his ex-
! tremely notorious sister, the fascinat
! ing Mrs. Thomas James .Atherton. di-
vorccd wife OF Colonel Anterior, late
! OF the Twelfth Lancers Mrs. Athcr
| ton, who has achieved much celebrity
| of an unpleasant character in relation
to her own divorce. in her shameless
! suit for breach of promise against Lord
/ Churston, and her citation in at least
two other divorce cases, took excep-
| tion to a report that she had been
! turned out OF the Savoy Hotel, at Cairo
| by the mana cement, and tracing this
| &c Lady Paul. proceeded TO sue her for
impugning what little Is left of her
character. associating her brother, Sir
! Aubrey Paul. in the suit as responsible
Tor his wife's utterances.
Although the Jury animated thcir
opinion that Lady Paul had much OK.
ouse for her uncomplimcntary refer
| ences to her sister-in law. by placing
| the chief burden of costs OF the trial
upon the latter, and awarding to Mrs.
Athcrton only farthinS Chat is to
say. half cent? OF damages, yet the
expenses of the trial were SO heavy as
to complete the wreck OF Sir Aubrey
! Pauls fortune, especially as his other
| sisters husband, Richard Stacpoole,
! sided VITA Mrs Anterior. and with
drew at critical moment, and with
! disastrous results, money from enter
! priscs i'll which they We're associated.
Lady Paul is the daughter OF the
! famous Polish composer, Wieniawski,
/ OF Warsaw, ana has since her marriage
I appeared Oh numerous occasions as an
amateur vioiinist at charitable enter
| tainments. Now, this very charming
and gifted little woman whom Mrs
/ Atherton denounced in court as IA dirty
t llttle Pole" has become a professional
! violinist, and on the plea that charity
be gins at home, proposes to devote TO
money earned by her violin, that form
| erly went to the poor.
Her husband, Sir Aubrey, is the head
| Of the Gloucestcrshirc pauls, who have
nothing in common with the similarly
| bnronctcd Irish Pauls OF County Car
| low. His family is n Cromwcllian one
/ and through the marriage OF DR.. john
Paul, a physicion OF Salisbury. to tho
only daughter OF Samuel Snow. one OF
the leading bankers of London in the
eighteenth century. became Identified
| with the firm, which from that time
| forth was known ms Snow, Paul x Co
! Their son was created II baronct in 1891
| ty reason OF his cmincnce as one of the
leading bankers of the city of London
| The second hnronct brought the great
| banking house TO grief in 1853, when
| II closed its doors with liabilities or
several million dollars and relatively
| few assets Sir John Paul being
I convicted OF fraud, forgery and embez-
clement. and sentenced to fourteen
years transportation with penal aervi-
Jude in Australia. Sir Aubrey is not
as so many people suppose. either his
! son or grandson--ls not descended from
him in any way-owing his inheritance
OF the title to the fact that his grand
father was younger brother of the
convict baronet.
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