The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-05
Colonel Sir Augustus Fitzgeorge
Is Now on Visit to This
Country.
on la MARoUIsE DIE FoNTENoY.


HoLoNEL SIR AUGUSTUS FITz-
" GEORGE. who has just arrived
in New York on board the Gu
nard liner Carmania, en- route to the
Cobalt mines district of Canada, owned
by the company OF which ne is presi-
dent. and who will afterwards pay a
series of visits in the Dominion and
the United States. has royal blood in
his veins. as a great-grandson of King
George III. He is the youngest OF the
three sons Of the late Duke of Cam
bridge by the latter's marriage with
Miss Farebrother. a popular Irish ac-
tress, whose acquaintance he had made
at Dublin.
The marriage was celebrated on Jan
uary s. 1877. in the Church of ST. Johns.
at Clerkenwell, London. the name of
the royal bridegroom appearing on the
parish register as George Frederick
Cambridge, of the Parish OF ST. Paul.
Deptford. But inasmuch as the duke
had failed to obtain the sanction of the
crown, in accordance with the statu-
tory requirements of the royal mar
riage act, the union was invalid in the
eyes of the law, and the dukes bride
was never officially recognized as his
wife nor permitted to share his honors
and dignities. She was known as Mrs.
Fitzgeorge, and whereas he ostensibly
resided at Gloucester House, on Park
Lane in Piccadilly, she lived in house
nearby. where her children were
brought up She never appeared at
any OF the dinners or entertainments
that the duke gave at Gloucester
House, WAS never received at court,
and remained wholly in the back
ground.
Colonel Sir Augustus Fitzgeorge was
( the youngest of the sons whom she
bore 10 the duke. He was educated at
SD M In fIa 10 T2rio RI
in C1nada for five years, from 1865 to
1870. was on the staff OF Lord Napier
in India. was transferred from the
Rifles to the Eleventh Hussars. and
for the last ten or fifteen years of his
fathers life acted as his private secre-
tary and equerry. 1t was for the SER
vices which he thus rendered to the
Duke OF Cambridge os a member of his
royal household and not because he
happened to be the dukes son, that on
his fathers death he was knighted by
King Edward and decorated With the
Star of the Order of st. MicnaeI and St
George. He received the bulk of the
fortune left by the duke. for his elder
brother, Admiral Sir Adolphus Fitz-
George. Royal Navy, is very rich.
through his marriage with the daugh-
ter OF the late Thomas Holden. while
the eldest brother. the late Colonel
George FitZgeorge was disinherited by
the duke. owing to the amount already
spent by his father in extricating him
from one financial difficulty after the
other.
1t is the widow of Colonel George
fitzgeorge, who flourished for a time
in New York and elsewhere in the
United States as Lady" Fitzgeorge.
She courted publicity, vouchsafed many
interviews to the newspapers on the
subject of the reigning family of Eng
| land. and repeatedly expressed in print
her hope and expectation that her two
daughters, Iris and Daphne. Fitzgeorge
who were under the guardianship of
their uncle, Admiral Sir Adolphus Fitz-
george. and her son. George. now an
officer in the British navy. should
marry Americans. She is by birth n
member of the house OF Barring. and
before marrying George Fitzgeorge was
the wife of Colonel Frank w. Ark
wright, of the Coldstream Guards. this