New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-21
erlcan Wives Preside Over Many FOREIGN Embassie.
Mistresses of All European Lega.
tons Will Be American Born
When Lady Ceddes Comes
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her marriage she lived first in Edin-
burgh. Later her husband became
professor Of anatomy at the Royal
College Of Surgeons, Dublin, and a
year before the war took the same
position at McGill University, Mont
real, Of which he soon became prin-
cipal. In giving up this position to
enter the army he relinquished one
OF the greatest prizes in the aca-
den1ic world.
Sir Auckland's hobby has always
been military tactics. He was
lieutenant in the Boer War and in
November, 1914, went to England
to accept commission as major in
tie British forces. In a short time
he received staff appointment in
France, where he was wounded and
invalded back to London.
Have Five Children
Lady Geddes remained in Mont
real until her husbands appointment
as Minister Of National Service,
when she joined him in London. She
has sister, Mrs. Roger Houghton,
and brother, Percy II. Ross, living
on Staten Island. Three sisters and
a brother live in England. Sir
Auckland and Lady Geddes have five
children-four sons and one daugh-
ter.
M. Jusserand is a diplomat by
career and has been French Am
bassador at Washington for more
than seventeen years, his appoint
ment to the post having been made
in 1902, while he arrived to take
up his duties on the last day of
January, 1903. Nine. Jusserand
was Miss Elise Richards. Her par
ents were natives Of Boston, but
lived for years in Paris, where she
was born, and she never saw her
own country until she came here
as the wife of the French Ambas-
sador, though her brother, George
L. Richards, had returned to Amer
lea and made his home in Washing
ton.
In 1913 Nine. Jusserand broke
up the free lunch system among the
younger members Of the diplomatic
corps in Washington. Hosts and
hostesses outside the exclusive cir
Gle had found a means of obtain
ing diplomatic names to grace their
dinner lists through the willingness
Of young attaches to accept invita-
tions, even though their wives did
not feel it convenient to attend the
affairs. Nine. Jusserand as doyenne
of the corps put ban on bachelor
diplomats attending the functions of
uncensored hostesses and married
diplomats dining out without their
wives. The orders bit into the dip
lomatic bourse, but restored the ex-
cluslveness OF the corps.
Another French statesman with
an American wife is Alexandra
Ribot, ex-Premier and several times
Minister of Foreign Affairs. M.
Ribot married fifty years ago Miss
Mary Burch, Of Chicago, grandniece
of Erastus Corning, of Albany, and
daughter Of Isaac Burch, who in the
middle of the last century was the
leading banker of Chicago. Nine.
Ribot went to Paris when a girl
and there married young lawyer
named Deraangeot. He on his death
bed asked M. Ribot, who had long
been his most intimate friend, to
take charge of his affairs and set
tie his estate. 1t was during this
task that M. Ribot and Nine. Deman-
geot formed the intimacy that
ended in their marriage.
Her Husbands Helper
When M. Ribot visited America
in 1896 friend said Of Nine. Ribot:
"She is woman of great beauty,