The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-21
LORD ORKNEY WILL BE
JUDGE AT HORSE SHOW

tended the various hunts around
Leighton Buzzard, and especially those
who followed the Rothschild Hunts.
developed a sort OF hunting field ac-
duaintance with Lady Orkney, which
has served to render life more toler-
able for her.
The Orkneys have one child by their
marriage, daughter. now ten years
of age, who has inherited much OF
her mothers beauty and who will in
course OF time succeed to the latter's
fortunes and to her fathers earldom
and his estates. embracing about 49,
900 acres In Buckingha mshire and in
Tipperary The earldom runs I'm the
female line as we'll as in the male
Although Lord Orkney is a Scotch
peer, deriving his principal title from
one OF the most remote portions of the
northern kingdom. yet he is an Irish
man by birth. has no estates in Scot
land, and has strain of jewish blood
in his veins. The earldom OF Orkney
was fret created in favor of a younger
son of that Lord William Douglas
who. on marrying the Duchess OF Ham
ilton, was made Duke of Hamilton.
This first Lord Orkney OF the seven
teenth century creation had no con-
nection with the ancient Scandinavian
Earls OF Orkney nor with Mary Queen
of Scots's third husband. Boutwell,.
who was Duke OF Orkney. The first
Lord Orkney Of the present creation
married Elizabeth Villiers, the fav-
orite of William I'LL, whose settlement
upon her of estates valued at 100000
year. which had belonged to his
father-in-ia James H.. led to an
angry discussion in Parliament
It was after the unpleasantness on
this account that Lord Orkney was
appointed Governor of Virginia, and
later on he was created field marshal
being indeed the first officer of the
British army 10 enjoy that rank AT
his death the earldom of Orkney, to-
gether with the viscounty of Kirk
wall and the barony of Dechmont, were
inherited by his wife's eldest daugh-
ter. Lady Anne Hamilton, who ie gen-
orally understood to have been the
offspring OF William III, rather than
OF the first Lord Orkney. She mar
ried the fourth Lord Inchiquin. But
as all her four sons predeoeased both
her husband and herself, her husband s
barony OF Inchiquin went a his death to
a cousin, while her own earldom of DIRK
ncy. and the minor dignities aasociat-
ed herewith. were inherited by her
eldest daughter Mary. The latter,
daughter. who. becoming Countess OF
Orkney in her own right. married a
brother OF the first Lord Lansdowne
That is how tho patronynic of the
present Earl OF Orkney happens to be
Fitzmaurice. like that OF the Maraui.
Of Lansdowne Lord Orkney is a
Conservative in politics. and Is abou,
| fifty years of age.
King Victor Emmanuel has lost one
Of the ornaments OF his court, through
~
who for more than thirty years has
been grand master OF the ceremonies
and for near two-thirds of that time
project, that Is to say, governor OF
the royal palaces He was an ex-
tremely handsome man. and used to be
known as lie Beau Cesar" at the
time when he married Constance Kin.
ney OF New York. only daugh-
ter OF Francis Sherwood Kinney
tho well-known American tobacco
magnate, who left her the greater
part Of a fortune OF s12,0oo,OOO. I'm
/ like so many American women wht
marry abroad. she was extremely kline
and hospitable to her compatriots. anC
most OF the American women who have
secured admission to the court OF thu
Quirinal, and presentation to the King
and Queen. owe this to the good will
of Count Gianotti and OF his New York
Wife
The count. while not brilliant from
an intellectual point Of view, was alb
solutely devoted to King Humbert ant
Queen Marguerite throughout their
married life and to the present King
whom he knew from infancy, and they
in turn, reposed the utmost confidence
in him. and never failed to NANTES,
the affection which they felt for him
They were present at the wedding OF
both his daughters one OF whom Is the
wife of Count Balbi and lady ir
waiting TO Queen Helena while the
other is married to a young diplomat
the Cavalier Frescotti. who halls,
believe, from Milan. PRESCOTT is now
tary OF the italian embassy there.
The now widowed Constance Coun,
tess Gianotti. nee Kinney, has 70,
more than quarter OF century beer
one of the danes du palais OF Queer
Marguerite.
The health OF the count has beer
falling for some time past. and along
with II his memory became impaired
which led TO some rather troublesom
contretemps and mistakes, as, for in,
stance, when he forgot to notify dis.
tinguished Foreigners OF the audience
/ accorded To them by the King, which
oversight resulted in the monarch
waiting in vain for his visitor, and thu
at not having succeeded in obtaining
an audience from the sovereign
Copyright. 1913 by the Brentwood