The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-27
EDWARDS VALET MAY
FOUND NOBLE FAMILY
,pon him the Cross of the Legion of

opoH MIN inc Cross OF the Legion or
Honor.
When Napoleon I'm, came to tho
tnronc' he still further advanced
Marchand to the rank OF ofilcer of the
Legion OF Honor. made him a present
of 100000. In addition to an annuity
OF $4,000 year, and finally conferred
upon him the title of count, and an
elaborate coat-of-arms. He died in
1876, full OF years and OF honors. and
by reason of his rank in the Order or
the Legion Of Honor. received an i'm
posing military funeral
Wilfrid Blunt and his wife. Lady
Anne. grandchlld of the poet. Lord
Byron. have turned over their beauti-
full Sussex place. Crabbet Park. to
the Hon. Neville Lytton, younger
brother Of the Earl Lytton. Mrs.
Neville Lytton. will eventually become
a peerless In her own right. For her
mother. Lady Anne. is next heir to the
ancient barony OF Wentworth. now held
| by her niece, elderly spinstcr, in
the nelghborhood OF nifty. The Neville
Lyttons' eldest boy, Noel Lytton. will,
therefore, In due course. through his
grandmother and mother. become LORD
Wentworth, and as such entitled to
seat in the House of Lords. the peer
age-a barony by writ-dating from
! 1929
Crabbet Park is full OF relics OF
Byron. For Lady Anne Blunt is de-
voted to the memory Of her brilliant
grandfather. and never permits any
one TO forget that her mother was the
poet Byrons only child, Ada soul or
my homo ard heart" to whom SO many
of his most beautiful verses were adj
! dressed Crahbet Park lies in the en-
IRENE north Of Sussex, the house being
| rambling and picturesque, betraying
architecture OF many different periods.
owing to the additions which 1t has
received from time to time. The
grounds and woods are beautiful.
There is large lake. where numerous
water fowl find sanctuary. while tho
terrace and lawns command perhaps
the finest view in the South OF Eng
! land
Crabbet Parks principal title to
fame is it's stud farm of Arabian
horses OF the rurest breed. It enjoys
an altogether international celebrity,
and the sales of Arab stock which
take place there every three or four
years are invariably attended by
horse lovers from all parts of Europe
Ever since Wilfrid Blunt retired from
| the diplomatic service. nearly thirty
years ago. he has devoted himself to
the study Of Oriental life. the taste for
which is shared by his wife, a sister
Of the late Earl of Lovelace.
| Speaking Turkish, and the various
| Arab dialects like a native, the ISlunts
have travelled all over Arabia, array
ed IN native costume living on native
! food. and establishing the closest
! friendships with the various sheikhs
and emirs. Their hold on the good
tt-i11 - l,tt
the great popularity which they enjoy
throughout the Moslem world by rea-
son of the championship by wilfrid
Blunt OF every Moslem cause against
the white races and the Christians.
He has repeatedly defended. in the
Nineteenth Century and other Eng
lish reviews, as we'll rs in the London
Times. tho cause of the Sultan, OF the
Moslems In India. of the present khe-
and of the insurgent chief Arab
| Pasha. In fact. his enthusiasm in
! connection with these causes compelled
Lord Cromer, whom British plcnlpotcn-
| tiary at Cairo on two occasions to
have him expelled from Egypt. on ac-
| count of the trouble that he was stir
ring up against the English authori-
| ties among the native dignitaries and
| clergy.
| Being regarded throughout Arabia
| as the most powerful and devoted
friend OF tho Arab, Turkish and Ngyp-
tian races. Wilfrid Blunt has been able
10 obtain from the various chiefs and
emirs mares and stations of the most
famous and the Iurest breeds; horses
with pe,ugrees as highly priced as
| those OF the descendants of members
OF the prophets family: horses which
not even the Sultan himself could buy
Moreover Wilfrid Blunt managed to
secure the entire stud of Arab horses
belonging ~ the late All Pasha
J Sher"ef, or Cairo. whose stock is de-
scended from the celebrated mares
which Viceroy Abbas I. of Egypt
obtained from Arabia for the then
phenomenal cost of 100000.
This will show that the Blunts are
entitled to speak With authority on
the subject OF Arab horses. and in the
controversy il which the American
cartoonist and Importer Of Arab horses
Homere Davenport, was imprudent
enough to embark upon with Lady
Anne. he got distinctly the worst OF it,
Tho Blunts now divide their time
between their other country seat.
Newbuildings Place. wonderful old
manor house. near Horsham, in Sus-
SEX and Matarieh, another country
place, which they own In the vicinity
| u CHiio' WHcIc tHey usually Spenu the
| winter
Within stones throw OF their
| home ut Matarich is the sacred tree
in which the Virgin Mary Is asserted
to have concealed herself with the in
FAINT Christ, when pursued by the SOL
diers OF King Herod. a spider having
| thereupon woven its web over the en-
| trance of the hollow, so as to convey
| the impression that no one could pos
| sibly lc concealed inside. Khedive
Ismail made present of this tree and
of the garden in which 1t is situated to
Empress Eugenie when she visited
Egypt on the occasion of the opening
Of the Suez Canal. She in turn do
mated it to the Lazarist Fathers, who
| have monastery close by. and who de-
voted themselves to it's care. 1t is ia
| miliar to almost every foreign tourist
| who has visited Cairo
Copyright, 1913, by the Brentwood
Company
FORK UNION ACADEMY OPENS.
Attendance Larger Th8n Last Year.