The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-08
Appointed Attache of British En-
bassy by Sir Cecil Spring
Rice.
nY IA AIARauIsE DE FoNTENoY.

ORD CAMPDEN, who has been APP
polluted attache of the British
embassy. at Washington. was
with Sir Cecil Spring Rice at Stock
holm. in a similar capacity. having
been previously connected with the
British Legation at Chrlstiania AL
though his name is pronounced in the
same way as that of the Marquis OF
Campden, that Is to say, as If written
without the letter "p," he must not
be counfounded with him. For where
as Lord Camden is a marquis, G. peer
OF the realm, and the head of the
house of Pratt. Lord Campden. the
new attache OF the British embassy. Is
a viscount only By courtesy. a com
moner In the eyes OF the law, and the
eldest son and heir OF that Earl OF
GainSborOugh who is chief of the Noel
family.
Lord Campden holds a commission In
the territorial battalion of the Glou-
ccstershire infantry regiment, and was
at one time engaged to the daughter
OF Egerton Castle. the novelist and
champion fencer. Educated at Down
side, the great educational establish
ment of the Bencdictine Order in Eng
land. and at Exeter College, oxford,
he is, like his parents. Roman Cath
Ollie. The Noels have not always been
Catholics. Indeed tho late Earl OF
GainsborouSh. renowned for his piety
and for his philanthropy was the first
to turn to the Church of Rome, be-
ing received into IL by Plus IN. him
self. 1t is related that at the decisive
audience granted by Ills Holiness. Lord
and Lady Gainsborough were SO al
fected that they wept- whereupon their
little daughter. Lady Blanche Noel,
convinced that the Holy Father was
ill-usinG her parents, proceeded to at
tack him most vigorously, with fists
and Kicks.
Lady Blanche, the aunt, therefore,
of young Lord Canpden, died in the
United States, where she made her
home from the time of her romantic
marriage with Thomas Murphy The
latter was tho organist of her fathers
private chapel at Exton Park the an
cestral home Of the Noels in Rutland
shire. Through Lady Blanches inter
est in the chapel music. she was
brought into daily contact with tho
organist, handsome, fascinating
young Irishman, and In the most nat
ural and simpl c.manner 1t came about
that after the service was over, and
the rest of the family and the house
hOlu nad lelC the cnapei, Sne should
romain to practice the music with him.
II is nothing strange that in the hours
sitting together afcr mathis end yes
pers at the organ, the young, enthu-
siastic Lady Blanche, and the impul-
sive young Irish organist, should fall
In love with ono another.
After their marriage, Lady Blanche
found the prejudices of her family and
Of her relatives against her husband,
on account of his birth, to be too
strong to admit of their remaining In
England without being subjected to
all sorts of humiliations. And so they
came to the United States. to embark
upon new life, and to earn their
own living: Lady Blanche in the
realms of literature, and Thomas Muir
ply first as orsanist at New Rochelle,
H. l., and then as organist at North
Conway. n. IT., where he also taught
music al the Rev. Frederick Thomp-
sons Boys school. at Three Films.
Lady Blanche wrote a good deal for
tho Atlantic Monthly, for Scribner's,
the Catholic Review, the Catholic
World, etc. yet found time to do all
her house work. For she and her hus-
band were too poor to keep a servant.
William Dean Howells was their firm
friend and mentor In IitIrature. and
was wont to declare that she had the
most analytical mind of any woman he
had ever known. Without being boau-
tiful. she was pretty little woman.
with fresh, rosy face, framed with
thick, golden brown hair, very modest
and very shy: altogether singuIarly
attractive. She died very suddenly
from pneumonia, In 1881, at the age OF