The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-05
For Several Years Made a Prac.
tice of Spending Winters
on Pacific Coast.
~ LA MARaUIsE DE FoNTENoY.

EMBRoKES new earl. the if-
teenth of his line, and twelfth
Earl OF MONTGOMERY. Is a faml
lar figure on this side of the atlantic.
having, as Lord Herr bert made u prac-
tice for several years OF spending the
winters with his wife, formerly Lady
Beatrice Paget sister OF the Marquis
of Anslesey. on the Pacific Coast. at
Pasadena. They were usually accom-
panied by Lord Tweedmouth, and By
few other young Engiishmen OF rank.
constituting dashing polo team.
which gave the various polo clubs in
California plenty of sport. On their
way to and from California. they
would spend week or so in New
York. where they have many friends,
and were no strangers to Fifth Avenue.
Lady Herbert, In particular. attract
Ing attention by her stature and her
good looks. Her husband, too. is very
tall. as BELTS captain Of the Royal
Horse Guards regiment composed
of"N"tne y&lIesy'"mcr 2fi "xt.e' 1iTiSIict,
army who are all mounted on huge
chargers proportionate to their size.
He is not. however. quite so tall as
was his father. who enjoyed the dis
tinction OF being among the very tail
est me bers OF the House of Lords.
The new Lord Pembroke succeeds
not only to many ancient honors and
estates. but also to very prosperous
carpet manufacturing business. AT
the time when the French Protestant
weavers We're driven from their ma
tive land by the revocation Of the
Edict of Nantes. and sought refuge in
England. large number of them set
tied at Wilton There they prospercd,
and received a charter from King WAL
liam ILL.,, which formed the skilled
wOrkmen into a corporate body, and
prohibiting any person not licensed by
the guild from setting UP carpet
works anywhere within four miles OF
Wilton. In course Of time, this car
pet weaving became transformed from
A foreign into an essentially English
industry, the factory hands being
drawn from the neighboring villages.
numbers OF them coming from LORD
Pembroke's Wilton Abbey estates,
which comprise about 10000 acres.
About ten years ago the late earl,
finding that the business was in diff
ficulties, and was in danger of hav-
ing to close its doors, after endeavor-
ing In vain to persuade two or three
big London firms to take II over, form
ed a joint stock company. In commune
ton with Lords Radnor and IslinGton.
for assuming control OF the industry.
The latter has now become greatly en-
larged and extremely prosperous, the
Wilton carpets having not only A
large sale, but being in great demand,
owing to the care with which they
are made. Cheap machine made car
pets and rugs wear out In four or Ave
years, and fade as to their colors in
half that time. But the Walton car
pets. like those rugs OF Persia and
the Far East wear forever, each knot
OF wool being tied separately, there
being on an average 100000 knots to
the square yard. They are always
made in one piece, no matter what
their size and would blanch with
shame II they did not wear at least D
hundred years. King Edward who
was greatly interested In the enter
prise. gave Lord Pembroke the right
to style the industry The wilton
Royal Carpet Factory
Nor was the late lord Pembroke the
only member of his family to thus
show an interest in the industries Of
his country. His elder brother and
predecessor the thirteenth Earl Of Penn
broke, built and endowed at Dublin.
where tho family owns a large amount
OF landed property, big technical
college for the instruction OF boys and
girls OF the artisan class In various
trades and Industries. He was very
gifted giant OF over six feet six. and
having spent much of his time yacht
ing in the southern Pacific with DR..
Kingsley, brother Of the novelist
Canon Charles Kingsley, wrote book
entitled South Sea Bubbles in which
he gave humorous approval of the lax
morals of the South Sea Islanders.
The book created a sensation in Eng
land, shocked the more puritancal or
his countrymen, and was in conse-
qucnce thereof banned from the circu-
lating libraries.
Both that earl and his successor.
who has just died at Rome. were. like
tho late ISir Michael Herbert who
died as British ambassador to the
United states, children of Sidney Her
bert. raised to the peerage as Lord
Herbert OF Lea. one OF the most dis
tinguished tatesmen OF the first half
of the Victorian reign He enjoyed
the intimate friendship OF Gladstone,
and the enthusiastic admiration and
regard of Lord Beaconsfield. Indeed.
the latter portrayed him as the most
fascinating figure In English life In
several of his novels. notably In
"Endymion" I'm which he figures as
Sidney Wilson.
Lord Pembroke has plenty of for
eign blood in his veins. and IT. is to
this, perhaps that, like his father be-
fore him, he owes his good looks. ex-
cellent manners. and many accom-
plishments.- The seventh Earl Of Penn
broke married lovely Frenchwoman.
sister of that Louise de Querouaules
who was one of the favorites OF
Charles H.. and by him the, ancestress
OF the :, Dukes of Richmond. The
eleventh earl married the only daugh-
ter of Simon. Count Woronzoff. who
was for so many years Russian am
basaador to the court of st James, and
one OF his gTandsons, tho later Sir
Michael Herbert. kept up the family
tradition in this respect ny wedding
an American, namely. Leila Wilson.