The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-25
Sir William Seton, Laird of Pit
meddon, Dies at Adj
vanCcd Age.
BY Ia MARouIsE nE r0NrESoy.

! both sides of the Atlantic than the
! Sctons, who have jus; lost one OF their
/ most gallant sons through the death
( at an advanced age Of Sir William Sc
/ ton. Laird of pitmcdden. In Aberdeen
/ shire. Like Field Marshal Sir EVELYN
/ Wood. he could boast of having seen
| active service both in Tie navy and
/ In the army. being II midshpman when
! he took part in the Persian war of
| 1856. and in the storminS Of Bushire.
and an officer in the army when he
| fought through the Indian Mutiny and
| the Afghan war lie is succecd.d as
tenth baronet. and In the possession Of
( his ancestral home OF cushnic, bv his
only son. now Sir John Seton. sol
! der, Ike nearly all of his ancestors
! being retired captain OF ROYAL Ar
/ tillery, and still unmarried Next in
/ the line or succession comes his faith
ers younger brother. Captain Charles
! Seton. also veteran of the English
army, and of tho Afghan wars and
/ who makes his homo at Guthrie. Okla
| homa
| The most notable representative of
! the American Sctons AT the present
| time Is Mgr. Robert Seton, Archbishop
| OF Hciiopolis. who. after spending a
| number OF years At Rome as canon OF
/ the Lateran Basilica. is now returning
/ to America TO spend the remainder OF
! his days in his native land. lie is
! the last of the Setons Of Parbroath.
( whose ancestor came to New york at
/ the beginning OF the eighteenth cen
/ tury and married Il Miss Curzou, OF
| Baltimore one OF them. Elizabeth.
! wife OF William seton. after tho death
! or her husband. devoted herself 10 tho
/ foundation, in Frederick County, Mary.
; land, Of the fret house of the Sisters
! OF Charity In tho United States. She
! Is now In process OF caroniAatiou at
! Rome. She was the grandmother OF
! Archbishop Robert seton, and also Of
I elder llur 1,.. Lot. s,i-
! liam Seton who distinguished himself
In the Civil War. particularly himself
battle OF Antie;am, where h. was badly
| wounded
OF All the titles and peorages that
| have been owned by the Sctons they
retain to-day brt two baronetcies,
namely, that OF Sir Bruce Maxwell
seton. OF Ahercorr. ana the one OF
ritmedden. to which Captain Sir john
Seton has Just succeeded Their Earl
/ doms Of Wnton and o! Erlinton are
now III the possession of Lord Eplln-
ton, who IS Il Montgomery, and only
/ connected with tn. Setuus as = descend
ant through the female line from one
Of tho earlier Seton EntiS OF Wntou.
] The Earldom OF Dunfcrnliuc has be-
come extinct, and the 3;.ronies of Par
breath ana of Seton are dormant,
IL was the seventh Lord Seton who
was the devoted and loyal champion
of Mary. Queen OF Scots, ana who ns
=
novels dealing with Tint Inflated SOW
cteigm his romantic rescue cf her from
her captivity in Loeb Lcven Castle, in
May 5ds being familiar To all Sir
( walters readers. Queen Mary had
I some years previously TO raise him
/ from q barony to an earldom. But he
/ asked to be permitted To decline the
honor. on the ground that he preferred
10 be tho premier Baron Of Scotland
10 The Junior earl. 1t WAS Oh this oc-
cnsion that Queen Mary wrote With q
I diamond ring upon The pane OF win
. dow Of The great hall at Seton Castle
\ Latin verse which Sin Walter Scott
has thus rendered in English
Earl. duke or King, be thou that list
seton. thy lordship is enough for me"
This Lord Scton's half-sister was the
| favorite 81 the four Marys OF Mary
Queen OF Scots After sharing the
I Queens captivity. both in Scotland and
| III england, and refusing numerous
! offers of marriage she took the vows
OF nun, and became the inmate OF L
/ convent AZ rheims, OF which Queen
! Mary's aged aunt, Duchcsse Renee &c
! Lorraine. was ahbess
| The most curious Of the several ex-
listing memorials OF Mary Seton is a
mcmcnto mort watch. now in the pos
session OF the Dick Lauder family. IL
was presented 10 her by Queen Mary
| The watch is in the form of skull
( On the forehead is the nSurc of Death
standing between Il palace ana cot
taec. Around ii is a legend from Hor-
ace In the rear part of the skull is
a ngurc OF Time, with another legend
| from Horace. The upper part OF the
/ skull bears representations OF Adam
and Eve in the Garden of Eden. and
| OF the cruciiNiOn. each with Latin
| legend. Between these scenes Is open
| *, q han
the watch strikes tho hours on Il small
| silver bell, which fills the hollow OF
the skull, and receives the works with
in II when the watch is shut
| Another relic of Mary Seton is an
exquisite miniature of Mary, Queen of
Scots. presented to her by the latter
ana which was inherited from his elder
brother b. Archbishop Robert seton
who enjoys the distinction OF being the
only Roman Catholic prclatc OF Amcri-
can birth who has ever been admitted
10 and graduated from the Academia
| Mobile Ecclesiastica at Rome, which is
I restricted exclusively 10 theological
students OF noble birth. and from which
| the nunc!os and diplomatic officials
have been mainly recruited.
| There is scarcely a page of Scottish
| history IN which the name of Seton
/ does not figure. and students Of Shake
| spcarc may recall that the immortal
bard described a Lord seton as being
! " ''N''''''" w -'.''' ptti'' iIie i''iLiliA
| Is represented to this day in the arts
! tocracy OF Sweden, and occupied for
| three centuries II conspicuous place in
| the patriciatc of Milan. There arc
some Scotch gcnealogists who insist
/ that Archbishop Seton Is entitled to
the Mnrauisatc Of jIuntly. and there
arc several claimants to the old Seton
|. Earldom of Wintou, among them 1
understand Ernest Thompson seton,
author of that charming book. wild
| Animals | Havo KNOWN and George
Seton Anderson. "a native OF LIVERPOOL
! Whatever prctcnsions they may have
arc based on an alleged marriage Of
| The nth and last Earl OF Winton, who,
! after being imprisoned in the Tower
Of LONDON, and sentenced to death for
! his loyalty 10 the Stuart dynasty, man
aged to effect his escape to the CONT
nent, ana lived for time. first at the
court OF France, and Then at Rome, the