The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-30

way OF really curing Irish discomfort |
was to plant tho tenants" In "the
soil" This was a slip of the tongue.
For. as he had been advocating ten
ant ownership. he meant that the ten
ants should be firmly planted "on' the
soil. and not six feet beneath the
surface. es construed by some Of his |
brother peers.
Tho Hemphnl pecrage Is of modern
origin, having been created seven
years ago in behalf OF the present Lord
Hemphi1rs father, who was one OF
the principal Judges OF ireland.
Lord Hemphills fiancee. the Hon
May Hamilton, is daughter OF the
late Lord Belhaven and Stenton. The
late Lord Belhaven experienced con-
siderable amount OF difficulty in es-
tablishing his rights to the Belhavcn
barony. Inr>-fact, nearly ten years
elapsed from the time OF the death
OF the eighth Lord Belhayen until
he could, in the face of much opposi
ton on the part OF rival claimants.
establish his rights to the satisfaction
OF the Committee OF Privileges of the
House OF Lords. The late Lord Bel
haven also left no son, and was sue
ceeded. after litigation, by a very re-
mote cousin. Alexander Hamilton, the
present peer, in the entailed Wishaw
estates In Lanarkshire. He refrained,
however. from taking any steps to es-
tablfsh his claim to the peerages be-
fore the Committee OF Privileges OF the
House OF Lords. The attitude of the
crown, which Is Invariably advised by
the Committee. OF Privileges I'm such
matters Is best shown by the fact that
although the present Lord Belhayen's
sisters have. applied for q patent Of
precedence, to take rank as il their
he hoN IN,
pserage. and which. would have had
the effect of enabling them to place
the predicate of honorable before their
name, the application has not been
granted.
On the other hand, the Scottish peers,
VINO assemble at Holyrood ct each
general election for the purpose OF
choosing sixteen of their number to
represent their order IN the House of
Lords ut Westminster, hav. included
him among their delegates, taking the
ground that the award Of the entailed
Belhayen estates OF Wishaw to him by
the Scottish courts Of law, consti-
tuted in their eyes a sufficient assur-
ance thai he was the real Lord Bel
haven.
The trouble with Lord Bellaven's
claim, III the eyes OF the crown, is his
failure to prove the absolute exiting
| ton of the male issue OF Captain Fran
els Hamilton, younger brother of the
father OF the ninth Lord Belhaven, and
who died in 1869. leaving issue OF
whom all sight has been lost. Should
any son of this Captain Francis Ham
ilton. who belonged to the Ninety
fourth Regiment OF Infantry, appear
upon the scene, he would undoubtedly
have rights to the barony of Belhaven
and Stenton. and also to the Wishaw
estates. prior to those OF the present
&C tn 0n hor ri a. "a
die Of the seventeenth century in or
der to prove his relationship to the
ninth lord.
1t is said that there arc several
claimants to the honors and estates
OF Lord Belhaven, one Of them here
In America, who are prevented from
taking any steps to establish their
pretensions by the terrible expense in
volved in the legal roceedings which
would be necessary to enforce their
rights.
Single Speech Hamilton" who was
one of the reputed authors of the
Junius letters, and who served as
Chancellor OF the Exchequer in Ire
land from 1853 to 1854; Sir Edward
Walter Hamilton. who was the private
secretary as we'll as the most faithful
bioSrapher OF Gladstone; Sir William
Hamilton, who was envoy at Naples
at the beginning of the last century,
and husband of the notorious Emma
Lady Hamilton, the Egeria OF Admiral
Lord Nelson. all belonged to the Bel
haven branch OF the house of Hamil-
ton. Lord Belhaven has only one
child, a son, Captain Ralph Hamilton,
who spent some time in this country
couple of years ago with his wife.
Lady Grizel Hamilton. daughter of
General the Earl of Dundonald
IQaSmllch PrjpCa Johp SolfylroY
Is figuring In the festivities connected
with the celebration OF the tercentenary
of the Romanoff dynasty as grand mar
shall OF the Russian nobility, and has
been recognized by the Gear as the |
chief representative of the Muscovite
aristocracy, 1t may be as well to cX-
plain that his family Is perhaps the
most tliustrious in the land of the
Cars. 1t furnished an Empress to
the reignfng dynasty, in tho person OF
Feodorovna Soltykoff. who married
Car Ivan ". and thus became the
mother of Empress Anne.
Nicholas Soltykoff was the first to
receive the prjacely title. for his vic
tory over Frederick the Great of Prus-
~ at the battle of kunersdorf Prince.
Ivan Soltykoff. his son. was also q |
famous general, and was created a |
held marshal by Emperor Paul Ser
gius Soltykon is. indeed, popularity |
created with having been the father !
of Emperor Paul. owing to his atten-
tons to the Grand Duchess Catherine, |
afterwards Empress Catherine the |
Great. He is set down in biographical /
works as the first official lover OF |
Catherine the Great"
Prince Ivan Soltykoff died as Gov |
ernor-General of Moscow, and left two
sons, the late Prince Dimitri, who be- |
queathed at his death all his racing /
stable in England, including his |
place at Newmarket known as the