The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-06
English Lord Is Conspicuous
Figure at Horse Shows in
United States.
ny Ia MARauIsE DE roNrENoY.

N ia MARQUISE DE FONTENOY
ORD LOUTH. who spends much of
/ MS time on this side OF the A.
iantic, conspicuous fgure at
Morse SHOWS here, and devoted to ev-
cry form OF sport has Just married.
me new Lady Louth is 4 pretty girl.
daughter OF the late Colonel Hamp-
ton Lewis. a Crimean veteran. She is
out little older than Lord Louth's only
son. the Hon. Otway Plunkctt, who
came OF age last April. Lord I.outh.s
nrst marriage was dissolved by the
divorce court last year. tho former
Lady Louth being n daughter of the
late Colonel Edmund Bellairs. so long
BRUSH consul at Biarritz, and a whose
beautiful villa Mouriscot there. now
leased to Princess Freder!ca of Han
over, King Alfonso Of Spain became
amanced to Princess Ena OF Ba,ten-
berg
Fourteenth holder OF the barony.
winch dates from the reign Of Henry
Viii. and which being an Irish dig.
nifty does not carry with 1t n seat in
the House Of Lords. Lord Louth is
descended. like the Earl of Fingall
ana Lord Dunsany, from that John
Plunkett who established himself at
Bewly, County Louth. at the end Of
the eleventh century. HIS divorce and
remarriage have created good deal
Of stir in Roman Catholic circles in
Ireland, as well as in England. and,
inasmuch as that church does not
recognize divorce. the position OF the
new Lady Louth among them is likely
to be somewhat awkward
Lord Louths family have suffered
much by reason OF their faith and
their loyalty to the Stuarts. The sixth
earl was for many years imprisoned
in Dublin Castle by order OF Cromwell.
and his son. the seventh lord was
outlawed for throwing in his lot with
James H.. and aching himself to
the latter's fortunes. Nor was II un-
I'll the end of the eighteenth century
that the attainder was repealed in favor
OF Thomas Plunkett. who was estab-
lshed in his rank in the Irish peerage,
as eleventh Lord Louth
One of the members OF this house.
Archbishop oliver Plunkett, Primatc of
ireland. who was executed at Tyburn
in 1851, is in process of canonization
at Rome.
Lord Louth was born at sea, on
board his fathers famous yacht Pill
grim, whence his odd Christian name OF
Pilgrim. and his membership of the
East London parish of Stepney. For
according to ancient laws dating from
the reign of Queen Elizabeth, all Brit
ish subjects born at sea under the
English flag have their births entered
in the register of the Thames riverside
parish of Stepney. Stepney In those
days was one OF the principal anchor
ages OF the great port of London. This
law sometimes leads to a peculiar con-
ditior of affairs There Is an Aus
traiian statesman, now holding the po-
sition OF Premier IN one of the states
of the Commonwealth. whose birth.
like that of his father before him. had
been registered at Stepney, although
neither of them .ad ever set foot in
England until the younger of the two
came to London for King Georges
coronation.
1t is perhaps because he was born
on yacht that Lord Louth is so fond
of yachting and of outdoor life He
is equally at home in the saddle has
been Master of the Louth Hounds ever
since he came of age. twenty two years
ago. and has maintained the great ira
ditions of County Louth In the matter
of that sport OF kings. namely. fox
hunting. He served for time in the
army as a subaltern of the Wiltshire
Regiment. popularity known as "the
Sprinsers,' but resigned his com
mission on marrying, in order to de-
vote himself TO his estates, which have
peel III tne possession or his family
for hundreds of years. and which ex-
tend over an area of some 5000 acres
around his ancestral home. Louth Hall.
They embrace the neighboring town of
Ardee
There are now three Lady Louths in
existence, namely his young bride. his
divorced wife. and his widowed step
mother. After the late peers death,
this widowed Lady Louth contracted
a very foolish marriage with a drunken
brute OF the name of Richard AIuldow-
ney. with the result that she lost her
reason. and has ever since been in a
sanatorium, the courts having fortu-
nately freed her from her husband on
account of his brutality. intemperance,
and statutory misconduct.
Everybody who has stayed at Kill
larney House, the beautiful place OF
the Earl of Kenmare. on the Lake OF
Killarney, will be glad to hear that
in the destruction by fire of the greater
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