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case composed entirely OF the most
beautiful white marble, each step be-
ing cut out of an entire block and
measuring twenty-three feet length
wise. or much interest, too, is the
a.lteAroom where DIR. Samuel johnson
was kept waiting for so long to be re-
ceived that II resulted In a famous
dispute and sensational epistolary
controversy between the lexicog-
rapher and the earl.
This Lord Chesterfield who rejected
the offer of u dukedom from George
II. was a son-in-law OF George l.,
having married the natural daughter
OF the King and the Countess Won
Schulenburg,. she who was created
by her royal father a peeress in her
own right as Countess of Walslnghan.
Lord Chesterfield had no children by
this union. His son Philip, upon whom
all his affections and all his hopes were
centred and to whom his memorable
Letters" were addressed and who to
his lasting sorrow -predeceased him,
was born out of wedlock, son OF a
very beautiful French woman, Mile.
du Bouchet.
On the demise OF the fourth Lord
Chesterfield his honors and estates
passed to his godson. a distant kins-
man of the name of Philip Stanhope,
whom the Lord had adopted as his heir
owing to the fact that he had been
the closest friend OF his namesake, the
other Philip Stanhope, the dearly loved
sen to whom the Letters" had been
addressed
Nearly became "Magniac House,"
Chesterfield House remained the
home of the fifth and the sixth earls
OF the line. But II was sold by the
seventh earl to Mr.. Magniac, a well
known art connoisseur, who at one
moment thought OF giving the man
sion his own name instead of that Of
the famous Lord Chesterfield. Fortu-
nhtely he allowed himself to be dis
suaded therefrom. Magniac House
would not have sounded we'll. But he
sold the greater portion OF the once
fine garden. upon which Is built the
town house Of Lord Leconfield. which
he loaned to the Pilgrims Society for
use as an American officers club dur
ing the great war. Eventually Ches-
terfield House was purchased from the
Magniac estate by the late Michael
Sass, who, when raised to the peer
age, took the title OF Lord Burton,
from the town where his great brew
cries were located. Neither his widow.
nor yet his only daughter, and the
heiress to his barony, the present
Lady Burton (maTried to James Bail
lie OF Dochfour. in Inverness-shire),
cared to retain Chesterfield House. 1t
was too big, necessitating the en-
ployment OF a staff OF some threescore
indoor servants. So they sold 1t to
the present Duchess OF Roxburghe, and
there was born her only child. the
now six-year-old Marquis OF Bowmont.
Row the Duchess after occupying II
for some fifteen or sixteen years has
tired of the house which in any Con-
tinental city would be styled a palace.
Conditions OF life resulting from the
great war and the extraordinary DIFF
fculties In connection with the domes-
tic service problem have rendered the
maintenance OF a big esta blishment in
London a matter OF endless worry.
trouble and evaporation. Moreover.
OF all the American women who have
married Englishmen of rank, the
Duchess is the least worldly, the mos
quiet and unobtrusive, and cares least
for the round Of gayeties Of the Lon
don season.
She is devoted TO her husbands an
cestral home in Scotland. Floors Cas-
.Io - tha conptu from, which bA 4 o kau