New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-26
Lord Hyde and Lord Somers
Live Like Their Busy Farmer
Neighbors.
WORK FROM DAWN TO DUSK
Expect to Pay Their Way
Lord Edward Seymour
Coming to Dominion to
Raise Produce.

lrTom Inc TTlCuDe correspondent
Toronto. Oct 2s.-It must not be sup
posed that all the recent emigration
from England to Canada consists Of
gaunt eyed representatives of the sub
merged tenth. Much Of ii has been
middle class" a term which has never
taken root on this continent and here
and there is to be found representative
Of the real upper ten" 1t has to be
confessed that even In this democratic
land the members Of the latter class
have created an interest altogether dis
proportionate TO their numbers And
Society which spells the name with a
capital s in many Canadian centres n
quite on the qui vive because OF tho
presence in the vicinity Of a real live
lord or lady
For example. there are the Peers Of
Pickering, in many respects the most re-
markable OF the arrivals who have in
the last three years come to these shc-9
Pickering is a sleepy little village Of a
few hundred souls situated on the north
shore Of Lake Ontario, about twenty
miles east Of Toronto Now Pickering
is very much on the map. For II IS
probable that there is not another ham,
let, big or little, on the continent that
can boast Of being the regular postofice
address OF two live lords, to say nothing
of the earls and knights and ladies and
countesses who come to visit there &C.
casionally or of the retinue Of servants
Of all grades who make up the noble es-
adjustments
Specialize in Fruit Farming.
The two peers are Lord Hyde and Lord
Somers both belonging to as noble fam
lilies as there are in England, who have
deliberately turned their backs on Picca-
dilly and the exquisite pleasures OF the
old land for such raw-edged existence as
is found on Canadian farm. Almost
any day visitor will find them in the
fields. from daylight to dark, perhaps
ploughing or building fences, or digging
bitches, or, more likely, pruning trees,
for they are inclined to specialize in fruit
farming. They are clad in the blue over
alls and COWS breakfast" headgear
which characterize the typical American
farmer.
Lord Hyde Is as yet but a courtesy
lord" but as the eldest son of the Earl
and Countess of Clarendon, who paid him
a lengthy visit at Pickering recently, he
is the heir TO a rich earldom. The Earl
of Clarendon has been prominent cour-
tier in three reigns. and in the days OF
Edward VII Lord Hyde himself was one
of the few young men about the court
From being one Of the gay young men
about London town, where he was
member of three of the most exclusive
clubs-the Turf. Marlborough and Bach
elors'-to farming the unromantic land
scape about Pickering, Ontario, is a con-
siderable contrast.
Lord Hyde is a first cousin Of the Earl
OF Derby and also of Lord Ampthill
and is connected with many of the most
notable families in England. He is thirty
five years old and married. His wife is
with him on the Pickering farm. II was
reported that her ladyship proposed to do
her own work, milking the cows and
washing the dishes. II is not doing the
Eeighbors any injustice TO say that the
prospect of such a life for Lady Hyde
gave offence Happily, the report proved
to be unfounded. Lady Hyde has sum-
cient staff of servants to look after the
work.
An uncle, Mr.. Perry Somers-Cox, has
been farming in Canada for about elgh-
teen years. He married an American
lady, a native Of Denver who has sing
ing voice of rare quality and who. after
several years practice on the village au-
dience Of Pickering and the surrounding
countryside recently. under a stage name.
gave a recital in Toronto with marked
success.
As to Social Precedence.
Lady Hyde furnishes the connecting
link with the other OF the Pickering peers,
Lord Somers, who is her brother. He is
young bachelor, twenty-five years old and,
unlike Lord Hyde, who is courtesy lord,
is a lord in his own right, with a seat
I'm the House OF Peers, but, though this IS
the case, Lord Hyde, on account of his
greater expectations, takes rank over him
I'm the scale of social precedence. Thus.
when they come in after a hard days
work in the fields, il Is Lord Hyde s
privilege to go in to dinner first. To Lord
Somers falls the duty Of taking In the
lady of highest rank present.
The peers do not expect to make
fortune out of farming, though they have
acquired and have under tillage several
hundred acres, but they do expect 70 pay
their way They pay good prices for
what they buy-land included-but are
not easy marks for the extortioner. They
have built a modern house. costing slo,-
900. They have now been on their farm
about two years, and apparently are nxt-
ures. They enter fundamentally into
the life OF the community, and their tall.
clean-cut fgures-each OF the peers is sew.
eral inches over six feet-are the cynosure
OF all eyes at the local gatherings.
Next week there will arrive at Erin
dale. a little crossroads settlement mr.
teen miles west of Toronto, another noble,
Lord Edward Seymour. who. with his
bride, formerly Elfrida Adelaide de Traf-
ford, daughter of Sigismund Cathcart de
Trafford, lord OF the manor Of erosion.
Lancashire. purposes to make home on
the old Wilson farm" which Lord Ed
ward purchased year ago.
Here. In the plain countryside of old
Ontario, the aristocrat farmer and his
bride intend TO make their home. A farm