Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-06

George of Hanover, lies buried in the
royal vault at Windsor Castle.
The Earl Of Clarence must surely
have Invested himself of his British
nationality. seeing that he is fighting
against this country. He is the young
Duke Of saxe-Coburg. son of the
Duchess of Albany and of Queen Vic
| toria's youngest son, Prince Leopold
He came to his throne very unexpect-
eddy: His great uncle Duke Ernst
| brother of the prince consort was sue
ceeded by Queen Victoria's second son.
the Duke of Edinburgh When the
was the Duke of Connaught. but both
| he and his son. Prince Arthur, pre-
ferred to remain British, and the sue
cessfon thereupon passed to Queen Vic
Duke Of Albany
The royal German British foeman
was educated at Elton, and there is a
story of master one day intercepting
a note that was being passed to the
| young duke during class addressed to
His Royal Foolishness Dirty-Faced
Albany"
The late Duke of Buccleuch was like
one of those impressive, misty back
ground figures that used to loom up SO
often in English fiction. He had a
great pedigree. over which the genius
Of Sir Walter Scott-himself of the
c1an-had shed radiance, and its ro-
| nance was increased by royal bar
|
houses. two of which are really palaces.
| His titles take up many lines of the
| peerage. He had attained the Garter
and not escaped the Thistle. He had
an art collection Justly envied by all
| American millionaires of taste. He
owned $4,000 acres and was a master
of foxhounds. One gets the best idea
of the social altitude of the Buccleuch
family in that they escaped fashion.
Death Widely Mourned.
| Montague House is one of the very few
great houses In London that could never
| be called smart" It was, indeed. I'M
scalable to the smart. however rich or
clever. 1t was said to be the center
of that perfect and unconscious dull
ness after which the best climbers
sought and strove in vain. Yet he was
one of the least-known figures in the
peerage. and all that ordinary people
heard was that he was good landlord
| and an upright man, and that like the
| late Duke of Sutherland he was a man
of strong family affections that reach
ed out to far branches Of his clan. He
| had four sons and many grandsons, and
his death puts many great houses in
| mourning.
That fine old Victorian gentleman, the
| late Sir Walter Gilbey, was one of
the most picturesque personalities of
l
verbal penny in his pocket. he rose to
be the head of a great business house
\ and close personal friend of the late
| King Edward, who often dined at Sir
| Walters stately house in Regent Park
In appearance and manner he was de-
| cidedly Dickensian. His small pucker-
ed-up features beamed with cheeriness
and kindness, and with his buff trous-
| ers. cutaway coat, frilled shirt front
and deceptively ferocious eyeglass, he
might have slipped from the pages of
| "Pickwick."
| His career at the outset proved the
fallacy of the proverb that a rolling
| stone gathers no moss. He started or
a stool in an estate agents office, then
Joined a firm of parliamentary agents
then roved the shores of the Darda-
nelles during the Crlmean war as an
| official in the army pay department
Finally he and his brother opened a
| small cellarage In Oxford street for the
sale of Wines The business grew and
grew. and now the firm of W. & A
| Gilbey has premises which are among
the show places of London.
Sir Walter knew, perhaps, more about
horses and horse breeding than any
man living. He wrote numerous books
on the subject, was a familiar and
popular figure at the agricultural
shows all over England. and presided
over a number of hackney horse, shire
horse and hunters improvement So
| cieties.
| In view of his remarkably successful
career 1t is pertinent to recall the OBJ
servation of the Gilbey family doctor
| when Sir Walter was born. His par
ents told the doctor that the baby was
to be christened Walter, and the
medico retorted: Il never knew Wal
| ter worth a damn