The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-01
Brother-in-Law of Clifford Pin
chot Continues as British
Minister at The Hague
BY Ia MARaUIsE DE roNrryoy

H""''SE DE FONTENOY.
SlR ALAN TOMBSTONE: married 70
~ no SISTER or CHORD Pinchot and
mo mas been for some time past
.s,a;, '''i''Ster AT The Hague, has
as"ih oeen passed over In the ,p,t,cr
oil promotion to an embassy. ,nd ,,.t,,I.
CIR Maurice de Bunsen has heon ~
pointed 10 succeed Sir Fairrax o.,
wright as ambassador at vienna Cir
Arthur Hardinge has been nromotod
from the legation at Lisbon Ia ma
vacant embassy at Madrid
or Maurice de Bunsen began bis
oipiornatic career in the United states
as an attacne At Washington. in 1878
ana. while Of German origin. NAV he
said to owe the start of the fort,,ros
or his house to America.
The first Bunsen. Christian ,,b,r,es
py name, and the grandfather of Sir
naurice, was young student of hum
one birth at the University of Bonn.
IN the most straitencd circumstances
"heh. by piece of great good luck. he
was selected 10 serve as private tutor
anu as travelling companion to young
William b. Aston son of that .;ohn
Jacob Astor who laid the Foundation
or the great wealth OF his family.
me couple wandered all over Europe
together. listed Goethe, Schopenhauer
ana NiehuE:. and when finally young
Astor returned to New York Bunsen
was provided for in a financial sense
ana In the most generous fashion for
the remainder OF his days, and was
anie afterwards to marry at Rome an
English girl. Miss Waddineton.
aunt of the French statesman ana
foreign minister OF that name. whose
american widow. daughter OF FRESH
dent King, OF Columbia University,
New York, is frequent visitor to
America.
AT Rome Christian Bunsen became
very Intimate with the scholarly Prus-
sian envoy. NIebuhr. who secured his
appointment as secretary of his lega-
ton. and, acquiring the personal
friendship OF the then heir apparent to
the Prussian crown during a visit or
the latter to the Eternal City, he
was, on the succession of that prince
TO the throne as King Frederick VIII
liam ". promoted to the post of Prus-
sian minister plenipotentiary in Lon
don and ennobled
His sons. George and Ernest Won
Bunsen, both distinguished themselves
by their pronounced liberal views.
which gave such onense to Prince
Bismarck that he virtually drove them
from German official life. Indeed, Err
nest Won Bunsen resigned his position
in the German army and diplomatic
service. and established himself in
England. where he married Miss Eliza
beth Quincy. daughter OF the fam
GUS old Norfolkshire house of that
name. He returned to Germany TO
take care of the sick and wounded in
the war of 1870, for which service old
Emperor William insisted upon ap-
pointing him TO be one OF his cham
berlains
This did not. however. prevent Err
nest Won Bunsen from having his son
brought up as an Englishman. and
Maurice, after graduating from oxford.
entered the British diplomatic service.
where his promotion was rapid. He
is married to Miss Bertha Cory,
relative of the late Lord Rowton, and
through her is in possession OF very
comfortable fortune. He has repre-
sented Great Britain at Madrid for
the last seven years with considerable
success, and was one of the plenipo-
tentiaries at the international con-
gress of Algeciras, concerning Mo-
rocco. Moreover. he played a very
important role as mediator. in bring
ing about n settlement of the serious
differences between France and Spain
on the subject of their respective
spheres in Morocco.
With regard to Sir Arthur Hardinge,
the new British ambassador at Madrid
he is one of Lord Cromer's men, in
this sense, that he learned diplomacy