The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-06
Devotee of Sport Elected to Mem
bership of Royal Yacht
Squadron.
BY LA MARauIsE DE FoNrENoy.

n ORD HARDWICKE, who has Just
been elected to membership 6t
the Royal Yacht Squadron. that is
1.-The Royal Yacht Squadron. that Is
to say, the premier yacht club of the
world. which is Independent and
exclusive that it on several occasions
blackballed candidates sponsored by
King Edward, is devoted to Yachting
and has INDUCED in this, his favorite
sport. on this side OF the Atlantic and
also in Australia. The boats that he
has owned have mostly been small
ones. which he has sailed himself. de-
claring that he sees no fun in a boat
of over sixty tons. where one has to
have a crew, and sometimes a sail
ingmaster as well. 10 do the actual
work
To-day NJ is very we'll off. thanks
10 his marriage 4 couple OF years ago
to a New Zealand heiress, a Miss Ellen
Russell, OF Auckland But in his
bachelor days he was obliged to earn
his livelihood. He started out as a
S4o0 a year clerk in London stock
exchange firm, but soon tired of Office
life. and emigrated 10 Western Aus
tralia. with the object OF prospecting
for gold. He gives All amusing de-
scription Of his life there especially
of his camel ride from the coast to
the gold fields. and OF his adventures
with aborsines and bushrangers. His
venture did not prove very success
ful, and then he came on TO the United
States. where ne started in to learn
mining engineering. taking a job as
Eanger at 81 day. All told. he spent
ten years in mining in America, be-
fore succeeding to the earldom. and
during three OF these years he worked
as an ordinary miner. for union WAGES.
in a gold mine in Montana, where he
Der 1867 to the management.
While over her" he was ., one time
reported engaged to Miss Betty
Thomas, daughter and heiress OF the
millionaire dynamite manufacturer. OF
Bay City. Mich. the marriage, how
ever. failing TO materiali6e. Since re-
turning to England after his acces
sion TO the family hono:s he has
done much to promote motor boat
racing and aviation
Lord Hardwicke is descended from
Simon Yorke, of Dover. who is de-
scribed as "a merchant and n person
of good landed estates" and who died
In 1872. His grandson. Philip Yorke,
became Lord Chief Justice of England.
and was raised 10 the peerage at the
early age of th!rtyfour, being pro-
inoted three years afterwards. at
thirty-seven, To the Woolsack. as Lord
High Chancellor OF England, and to
an earldom. The sixth earl died as
Under Secretary of State for India in
the Balfour administration. and as
member of thu stockhroking firm or
Basil Montgomery x Company. He
was also chief owner of the London
Saturday Review.
The family estates and treasures
have all been dispersed through the
financial misfortunes which overlook
the fourth and hfth earls: and their
ancestral home, Wimpole Hall in Cam
bridgeshire. with its magnificent
double avenue OF elms, hundreds oil
years old--the avenue being three
miles long--is now in the possession
of Lord Clifden. who, according TO
the Yorke family. secured the place
ut about one-quarter OF its real value.
by quietly buying up the mortgages
with which II was encountered ana
then foreclosing.
Elected at The same time az Lord
Hardwickc 10 the Royal Yacht SQUAD
ron. is Lord Abinger. who is only very
distantiy related 10 the American
widow Of the third holder of the title,
namely. Helen. Lady Abinger. daugh-
ter OF the late Commodore @. A. Ma
gruder. OF the United States Navy.
II er son was the fourth peer, and when
he died unmarried il was found that
he had left most OF the property at
his disposal to mis- American mother,
even giving her Invcrlochy Castle, and
the famous Inverlochy deer forest in
Scotland for life. Nor Is it until her
death that Inverlochy will come to
the present Lord Abinger The re-
mainder OF the American Lady Abin-
gers fortune will go TO her daughters
The eldest Of these is the Hon Mrs.
Percy Synge, who, having taken de-
Erees of medicine i'm London Paris
and Brussels, accepted the appoint
mcnt of physician to the Empress and
princesscs Of Korea, from which coun-
Try she sent hcmc TO the Natural His.
tory Museum, in London, a number OF
valuable geological and ornithological
specimens which had fallen to her gun,
including the pelts and hides of two
magnificent snow tigers.
The Boer War caused her to throw
up her appointment in Korea; although
ii is said that her discovery that II
was customary, in the event or
one of the imperial patients dying. TO
put all the attending physicians to
death so as to furnish the illustrious
patient with an escort In the other
world. contributed to hasten her de.
parture. She did excellent service In
the ambulances throughout the South
African campaign. and while thus en-
gagged fell in love with a young Yeo-
many officer. Lieutenant Percy
Synge, whom she married, and with
whom she now makes her home III
Western Canada.
Lord Abinger was for a time connect
ed with the diplomatic service, as at
tache Of the British legations Mt Bcrne
and stockholm, in which latter capital
he met and wooed his wife. widow OF
the late King Oscars chamberlain,
Carl de Geijer. and daughter OF that