Evening star., 1923-06-07

sonal friends Of Edward VII. He has
iong been a notable figure. not only
in English life. but also In the south
OF france, where he has enormously
developed the family property at
cannes. town which may be said
10 be entirely the creation Of the first
Lord Brougham. and to owe a great
zeal or its vogue and fashion and
prosperity to the present peer Lady
Brougham is remarkable woman. a
daughter OF that Peter Wells of
W indsor Forest who figured SO ex-
tensiVely in Ouda's novel ''Friend-
snip. under the name OF .Mr. Silvery
BELL While still very young. Lady
Brougham, who received the strange
Christian name of Adora, which ON
growing up she transformed into zoe
married the late Sir Richard Mus
grave of Eden Hail. a place rendered
famous through Longfellow's poem en-
titled The Luck of Eden Hall" The
poem, as II may be recalled, describes
a glass goblet of great age. said to
have been presented MANY hundreds
OF years ago to the owners of Eden
Hail by the Fairies. and with which
the fortunes of the house of Musgrave
nave ever since been associated. the
good luck being dependent upon the
goblet being preserved intact Long
fellow almost broke il when il was
handed to him for inspection After
the death OF Sir Richard Musgrave.
MS widow married the present Lord
Brougham
Cannes, which is even better known
than Nice to Americans visiting the
French Riviera. first attracted the at
tention or the great Lord Brougham
when travelling home from Rome
after the death of his seventeen-year
old daughter. Eleanore to whom he
was passionately devoted He be-
came so entranced with the beauty
scenery
determined to establish a continental
residence there, to which in memory
OF his girl he gave the name of
Cnateau Eleanore." In the course
OF ume a large colony OF English
reople and of other foreigners SET
tied in the vicinity Of his estate. and
in this way Cannes became one of
the principal winter resorts of the
southern coast of France.
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The old chancellor will be remem-
bered in the United States as one
of the most ardent champions of the
monroe doctrine. which he vigorously
advocated in the "Edinburg Review.
OF which he was one of the founders
He was also one of the leaders of
the abolition movement in England
obtaining almost single handed tho
enactment of law furnishing s,aye
trading as felony. But he derived
his principal fame and eminence bv
his chivalrous defense of Queen
Caroline, in the suit for .divorca
brought against her in the house of
lords at Westminster by her husband
King George w.
For some strange reason or otbar
popular impression seems to pre-
vail that the first Lord Brougham m
and consequently the present peer.
and also the latter's son, now the
husband of "Mila" Won Heneel-
muller, have been of humble origin.
1t must be confessed that there was
very little about the personal appear
ance of the chancellor to convey the
impression of patrician lineage.
Moreover, he rendered himself ridic-
ulous by his efforts to trace his pa
of the reign of Henry II. and adorned
the baronial hall at Brougham at
Penrith in Cumberland with many
memorials of that doughty crusader,
though It has been found impossible
to establish any real connection be-
tween the ancient lords of Brougham
Castle and the Broughams of Scales
Hall. from whom Lord Chancellor
Brougham was really descended.
The chancellor's grandfather, who
was owner of Scales Hall, and high
sheriff of Cumberland, managed to OBJ
tain by purchase Brougham Hall and
the latter from that time forth be-
came. the principal seat of the
Broughams of Scales. and Is today
one of the finest places in the county.
n 1f
ever, nothing to be ashamed of in the
way of ancestry. For they can show
an unbroken lineage back to Henry
Brougham. who hourished in the
reign of Queen Elizabeth. his name
appearing on several royal grants as
-Henrfcus BurgkaTn-