The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-16
EDITORIAL NOTES


 Lord Osborne de We're Beauclerk, the half-brother and heir presumptive of the eleventh Duke of St. AIbans. who has made many visits to the United States and Canada, was horn thirty nine years ago today. His mother was the second wife of the tenth Duke Lord Beauclerk. who is a captain in a. lancer regiment is a descendant Of King Charles IT., and his beautiful and hard-swearing mistress Nell Gwynne. The lovely but unconventional Nell bore two sons to her royal master, one of whom was made the first Duke of st. AIbans- He married the eldest daughter Of Aubrey de We're, the last Earl of Oxford. celebrated az "the daughter of a hundred earls.
 When Lord Beauclerk is in London he is given a weekly reminder of his ancestry bysthe to11ing Of the bells of St. Martin in the Fields in memory of Neil Gwynne Under the terms Of the ancient legacy, this ceremony takes place every Friday evening" and the ringer of the bells receives in payment q leg of mutton. Nell sCzwynnes the maternal ancestor Of eleven dukes, was born in a. cellar in the coal yards of Drury Lane, and was reared in the lowest faaunts Of vice. In her youth she was an orange vendor. and later became a singer, wandering from ta.v- ern to tavern to entertain the guests She soon attracted the attention of the gay blades of seventeenth century Isondon, ana had barely reached her teens when she acquired her first low CT. 9he was the mistress successively of Hart and Lacy, the actors, and of several men about town At fifteen she went on the stage and her rare beauty, together with her. bility as a, singer and dancer, made her the toast fl.ar1- oh hicr01rr 0f her talents, but always gave her light, humorous paris Her nature was gay, frivolous and yielding, and in tragic or serious role. Pepys tells us, she acted semost base1y-'
 By this time Nell could pick and choose her lovers from among the highest In the land At seventeen she became the mistress of Lord Buck hurst and was devotedly attached to him. Charles, dL became infatuated with her, however. and the ungallallt lord gave Nell to his royal master in Sretnrn for a political reward Upon becoming the Kings fayorite she was given an establishment of her owns and was even made a lady of the privy chamber to Queen Catherines and ad- n1ftted to the best society of London. Charles, ,si it is said. spent not less than $500, 900 on his mistress in four years, Morally fraf and excessively profane- it was said she could not say two words without interlarding an exple- tfve-she was yet generous and open hearted, and a large part of the money she received from the royal excheQuer went to aid the struggling actors and actresses At court she represented Protestant interests, and she was very Pfous in spite of her unconventional code of ehtics-s Charles remained in love with her to the time of his death, and aznnost his last words were "Let not poor Nelly starve."
 The fascinating oIe1ps son, the first Dnks of st. A1bans. was made master faIconer and registrar to the court of chancery by his father. and William III appointed him a lord of the bed chamber.
 Capt. Walter seIby Buckmaster. who Is regarded by polo experts as the most scietnihc exponent of the game, was born in London forty-one years ago today He has played. on more winning teams than any other polo player. He started playing over twen- ty years ago, while a student at Cam bridge
 Europe's foremost lady killer and professional gallant, the Duke of Alba: was born in Madrid thirty-ave years ago today, and for nearly a score of years he has been noted for his ad- Ventures in galIantry. The full story of his career would read like a col1ec- tion of all the merry tales told by Boc- coccio and his imitators. The Duke is a deputy in the Spanish Cortes, when he can spare the time, and. a close friend of King Alfonso A few months ago he acquired considerable notoriety on account of the Duke of Westnnin- sterss allegation that he had played a prominent part in the disruption of the domestic relations of the Vest ministers. This was indignantly denied by the Spanish grandee, as well as by fhe Duchess of Westminster.
 Maria del Pillar Carlos Manuel, sev- enteenth Duque de Alba Jacobo, and Stuart Fitz-James. tenth Duke of Ber- wick. are but a few of the titles of the young gallant. who is the grand nephew of ex-Empress Eugenie o1 France The first Duke of Berwick from whom he is descended, was a. nat ural son of James IT. of England and his mistress ArabelIa Churchill. He is fourteen times a grandee of Spain with enough titles to supply a peerage He succeeded to the titles on the death Of his father. the ninth Duke. in 1901 DuAka Carlos died in New York, hay 'H4s come to America as the guest o. Sir Thomas Lipton to witness the Americas Cup races His mother wa: the .twenty-second Condosa de Siruela and came of a very ancient Spanisl family.
 Arabella Churchill, who figured II the bar-sindster on the Dukes eHcut- cheon, was a sister of the first Duke of Marlborough James IT. made hi natural son Duke of Berwick, while the French king created him Duke O 1Fftz-James. and the Spanish monarch fairly showered titles upon him.
 The young Spanish grandee earls reached an age of indiscretion in tht matter Of affairs of the heart. On on, occasion he became infatuated by fair charu1eF who was also the recip