The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-14
HOU Sc OF LINDSAY
FERTILE IN ROMANCE
them OF the validity OF his pretensions
and Of the fact that he Is not an i'm

them OF the validity OF his pretensions
and Of the fact that he Is not an i'm
poster.
Something of the came Kind occurred
sixth Earl of Lindsay. and fifteenth
For the earldom and all the. honors
then passed to very distant klnsman
! or the name OF David Lindsay. who
armT so out TO be e9rpora d,d the
~ read or write and whose father,
John had been ships carpenter.
ne TOO. died unmarried and then the
earldom went to General Sir=Patrick
Lindsay. who had 4 number of Indian
victories TO his record He likewise
Ieft no issue. and then the Earldom OF
Bethune. who owed the additional
! name of Bethune to the marriage OF
one OF his forbears. Patrick Lindsay.
to Catherine Bethune the heiress OF
the Bethunes OF Bandon.
This Sir Henry Lindsay Bethune's
career Ca. was as remarkable as those of
earldom For long before there had
been any prospect of his inheriting the
family honors. he had entered the SER
vice OF the British army in India, was
Shah of Persia, in order to organize
the Persian army. and became one OF
the most universally respected and
popular figures in the Persian empire.
Ultimately Great Britain appointed
him as its minister plenipotentary to
the court of Teheran and SO great
that in addition to the Persian titles
J with which he had been Invested by
the shah, he was granted a baconotcy
as ,. we'll as the Order OF the Bath.
/, The Earldom OF Lindsay came to
him much later and not without a
considerable amount of litigation He
| had three sons; one who succeeded
him as tenth earl and who died with
u.h tc III.
legged to have died at Marseilles in
1852. put who, the firm OF London
lawyers claim, now appears upon the
/ scene, while the third. Martin. died at
home, as. boy of fourteen. When
the tenth earl died several years
elapsed before the present earl could
the satisfaction of the Committee of
| Privileges of the House Of Lords The
| present earl. as mentioned above. il
only distant cousin of tho tenth
:. The present earl has two sons, name.
~ Reginald, viscount Garnock, and
the Hon. Archibald Lindsay Bethune
| Lord Garnock, who is soldier, and
! formerly commanded the Eighth Hus-
sar Regiment, is as rich as his father
Is poor, being married to the daugh-
ter and heiress of one OF the greatest
mine owners in Yorkshire. He has no
children. and the second heir is his
brother, the Hon. Archibald, who in
1900 married Ethel, daughter of Will
/
ing oankers-of Boston The marriage
took place In Emmanuel Church. of
that city, and after the honeymoon
| Mr.. Tucker set up his on-in-law In
the insurance business at Boston
| The union did not turn out happily.
! 1t was dissolved on the petition of
chusetts courts. and the Hon. Archi-
bald returned to Scotland. leaving his
| son with the mother, to be brought
up IN this country, 1nasmuch as the
divorce h,,
! the English or Scotch courts, 1T is not
recorded In the pages of Burke and
OF other standard peerages. which pub
LEGATIONS. on the strength Of legal pre-
cedent, take the ground that the Hon.
Archibald, being a British subject.
whose legal domicile is in Great Brit
! the English or Scotch courts, which
/ alone have power to dissolve his mar
/ riage.
The ladys case, therefore. Is like
that of Mrs James Burke Roche, in
| New York, whose American divorce
from her Irish husband. the Hon.
heir TO Lord Fermoy. is likewise de-
clined recognition by the English
| courts. Unless these ultimately grant
relief. Mrs. Burke Roche will become,
nolens volens, a peerless OF ireland. as
Lady Fermoy on the death Of her
6rother-in Law; while In the same way
! William 4. fuckers daughter. Will,
| Countess of Lindsay and a peeress OF
| Scotland in the event of the Hon
| Archibald Bethune Lindsay surviving
! his elder brother. Lord Garnock This
| Is supposing that the claimant As de-
| feated; while, IL he succeeds, as I
| have pointed out. her son will in due
| course become the Earl of Lindsay.
She has taken advantage of her
| massachusetts, divorce to contract an
! other marriage in Boston with Ezra
| G. Fitch. Jr with whom she lives on
! Lawrence Road, Chestnut HILL Were
| she TO visit England or Scotland with
| her American husband, his Scotch pre-
| decessor might subject her to no end
\ of annoyance and trouble on the plea
that She had not been free to marry
/ again.
The I.indsays belong to the same
! Crawford is the chieftain. 1t was the
! Lord OF Lindsay whose fatal gift OF
a gray horse 10 James III. of Scotlapd.
! on the eve of the battle of Sauchie-
burn. was the cause of that monarch
| being killed The sixth Lord I,indsay's
| name Will be familiar to all the readers
I of Sir Walter SCOTS novel, The Alb
bot as one OF the principal foes OF
| Mary Queen OF Scots. and for his
| share both in her deposition and In the
| murder of Rizzio in Holyrood Palace
| Another Lord Lindsay distinguished
! himself, like the English Earl of Lind
sey with whom he must not be con-
founded), by his loyalty to Charles l.,
! hands of Oliver Cromwell: while yet
| another Lord Lindsay founded the
famous Highland regiment known as
| the Black Watch
/ Copyright, 1913. by the Brentwood
I COmpanV.)