The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-16

Lord Mayo, who has just published q
history of the famous Kildare Hmm
OF which he has been for a long time
master. Is no novice in literature deal
ing win sporting matters. being the
author OF remarkable entertaining
! volume entitled Sport in Abvssinia:
DE kebus Africanis" He Is tho head of
tnc great Irish house Of Burke. and is
i inat rara avis an Irish resident land
/ iord. Born in 1851 he succeeded TO
ne earldom and TO the estates in
Counties Meath and Kildare which
have been in the possession OF his
family for centuries on tho tragic
death of his father. who while Viceroy
f! OF Iildla, was assasSinated BY a native
/ convict while inspecting tn, penal
settlement on the remote .Andaman Is
lands
Lord Mayo served for a time I'm King
towards own regiment, tho Tenth
ltuSsars, and afterwards in the Grena-
der Guards, but resigned in conse-
uuence Of eccentricities which he has
long since outSrown. These caused
disappear without leaving any trace
] whatsoever OF his whereabouts Sew
| clal weeks later. after all the police
resources of the United Kingdom and
OF the private detective agencies had
! been employed to diSc,vci. what had
become Of him, he was found in a
daZcd condition. near lands End, In
Cornwall. without being able 10 Eivc
! II. treatment
a sanntoriuM restored him TO health
/ and to Soundness Of mind, though he
| has never been able Ia account for the
/ mystery IF his sensational! disappear
ance, and since then without being on
IN intellectual level with his father or
/ With his uncle. the late Lord Come
mara. he has been sufficiently clever
10 write the very readable books which
for himself knighthood OF the Order
of st. Patrick, a seat in the House OF
Lords AZ a representative peer of Ire
| land, and a membership of the Privy
Council.
Queen Victoria was much moved by
the late Lord Mayo's assassination. and
appointed his widow, the now DowaEer
Countess OF Mayo 20 be one IF her
ladies IN waiting, also manifesting par
ticular liking and kindness towards
the present earl and his brothers.
Lord Mayo's wife. q Ponsonby grand
daughter of the fourth Earl OF Bess-
borough, is thorough Irishwoman, pas
sionately dew ot+d TO the Emerald Isle.
various schemes for the development of
its industries and for the relief Of its
poor. She has no children. and the
heir - the earldom is the Hon. Alger.-
Exchange. and formerly attached to
the staff OF the London Times.
AlGy Burke is perhaps best known.
how ovor. as the rcorganizer OF Whites
H4!u bl ftNtIdl .OtncT Oh InH OIOcf ana
historic London clubs which had fallen
into evil days and into which he in
fused new life and blood. He is mar
ri,d 10 once wonderfully pretty wo-
man, who has n strong strain OF Ameri
can blood in her veins. hor mother.
now Mrs. Shelley .Bonteinf and former
~ Airs. Sloane Stanley. enc OF the fam
GUS beauties Of London thirty years
ago having been daughter OF Lady.
Rose, WHO WAS q Miss Temple, Of Fsut-
land, VI Another br >ther the Hon.
/ Terence Burke. Is British consul at
! Biscrta- in Tnris, where most Aneri-
can tourists who have vieited Tunis
have enjoyed his hospitality.
THO family OF which Lord Mayo Ia
the chief claims. like that of Lord
! Clanricnrde. descent from William
Fits Adeim dc Burgo, who suooseded
StrongnoY as chief governor OF Ire
land IN 1iT7. Sir fhsobaId Burke es-
faped to Spain Daring the reign OF
Queen Elizabeth, VINO objected to his
adherence to the Roman CATHOLIC
Church, and was created by Fhilip II
g grandee OF Spain ana Spanish Mar
quis OF Mayo. fhe Bursss haia various
ofioes In ireland during tue ,y,xtsoTth
and eeventesnth centuries, but IL WAS
not until the latter part of the e:Rh.
henth osnouev that John 6usiss, nom.