The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-01
Sees Considerable Service in
India as Officer of Bombay
Staff Corps.

w la MARQuISE DE FOSTtCNO1.
TINE new Marquis OF Sligo, sixth
Of his line. has had most re-
markable career and haH seen
considerable service out In India as
an omcer Of the crack Bombay Stan
Corps. He was a t~elve.months- old
baby when the great sepoy mut!ny
broke out in India in 1857. His
father the late marquis, who was
found dead in his bed as the result
of heart failure on Tue sday morning
last, was holding at the tis1e OF the
mutlny important civil employment IN
Bengal. He left his wife and his little
boy at Monghyr, In what he believed
to be complete safety. while ne him
self hurried, In response to the call
OF duty, to the scene of the trouble.
TO his dismay, the rebels cut off all
chanoe of his rejoining his VITO and
child. and. worse s.ill. surrounded
Monghyr.
Lady Ulick Browne. ae she was then.
sought refuge with tho baby in the
collectors house. together with the
few other English people in the dis
trct. and during four weeks sustain
cd a siege which cost the lives of
most Of the defenders. through thirst
hunger. disease and the onslaughts OF
the foe. Lad, UlIck realized that her
LITTLE hoy W.. Id succumb IF he re-
maned. and sue accordingly took the
desperate risk OF permitting har de-
voted Hindoo ayah. or nurse, to dye
the child a dusky color with chestnut
leaves and to mako her way with him
through the insurgents lines by pass
ing off the little fellow as her own
offspring
Three weeks later Monghyr was re-
lievcd by the British troops. Lady
Ulck Browne being among the very
few OF the gallant survivors of the
sege. But not until nearly three
months afterwards were she and her
husband able to ascertain what had
become OF their child and nurse or
TO discover whether they had man
a.ed to set safely through the Sepoy
lines around Atonghyr and through
the rebcl-infested country to safety
or had persisted in the attempt. Even
tually. however. the faithful and de-
voted ayah turned up with the little
fellow. who is now the new Marquis
of sligo. Earl OF .Altamont. Viscount
Westrort and Baron MountcaEle. All
these are Irish honors. In addition
thereto h~ owns the United Kingdom
Barony Of Mountcagle. which gives
him a seat In the House of Lords.
Like his father. he is a Unionist.
The marquis is devoted to travelling
and yachting, and the British Museum
owes TO his explorations those columns
from the Treasure OF Atrcus at
Mycenae. which are the pride OF the
Archaic Room.
The Browne family, Of which the
marquis is the chief, first came into
prominence when Queen EliEabeth's
sovereignty was asserted over Ire
land. John Browne, a lawyer, is on
historic record as having drawn up
the articles OF the treaty, by the terms
OF which the chieftains AMI free
holders Of Mayo agreed TO accept Eng
lish laws and tenures so we'll did he
do his work that by way OF r reward
he was appointed Sheriff OF Mayo, but
was In course Of time assassinated BY
the Burkes. then deadly enemies of
the Brownies many matrimonial ALI
ances having, however, taken place
since then between the two houses.
His great grandson, Colonel John
Browne. was colonel in the army OF
James H.. and was taken prisoner at
the siege OF Derry. but managed 20
escape to limerick where when the
Stuart cause was finally lost he drew
up the terms of the captulation in
lawyer like style. He married
daughter OF Theobald. third Viscount
Burke. and established himself as
Westport House. In County Mayo.
which Is still the home of the Mar
ouesses of Sligo to this day. 1t was
this Colonel John Brownies grandson
who became Lord MounteaGle OF West
port and Earl OF Ahamont as a re-
ward for political services: and his
grandson. the third Earl OF Alta mont,
was created Marquis of Sligo on the
occasion OF the union between Eng
land and Ireland in 1900.
The second Marquis OF Sligo, grand
father of tho new marquis, underwent
a term or Imprisonment In Newgate.
and was sentenced. moreover. to a fine
of $4,000. after conviction at tho Old
Bailey. in London, Of the, in his days.
seaman OF one OF His Maiesty's ships
in the Mediterranean" to navigate his
zach. TO England.
The late Lord Sligo was we'll known
In this country and paid several
visits, being extensively enteptained
nj Newport and other smart American
resorts.
Lord sligo. who has ( son OF twelve
and three brothers, Lord Terence.
lord Alfred and Lord Arthur Browne
all three familiar figures on this side
o. the ht-antic' 1S neAL hclr 10 the
1larldon OF Clanricarde. through his
mother and on the death OF the pres
ent Lord Clanrlcarde. whose marqul-
safe will then become extinct. will In
herit considerable portion OF the
Clanrlcarde estates, the remainder So
Ing to the Earl OF Cork, whose mother
was sister OF the marquis.
The name OF Cianricarde Is not one
with which 10 conjure In Ireland In
fact. there arc few that arc more uni
versally execrated. For the present
MARQUIS OF Clanrlcarde. who makes
his homo altogether In London anu
who Is a most eccentric individual, has
persoqihed all the most crying evils