Evening star., 1923-06-20
ny THE MARaUIsE DE FoNTENoY.

ny THE MARQUIsE DE FONTENOY.
Heir to no less than three duke-
doms as well as to the dignity of
premier peer Of the Kingdom OF
Scotland, the young Marquis of Doug
las and of Clydesdale, who Is arriv-
ing in New York today on board the
Majestic, comes to America, not in
search of a we'll lowered bride-for
he will come into great wealth on the
death OF his father-hut looking for
a night. He is one of the most en-.
thusiastic and pIucky amateur box
ers of Great Britain. and last year
fought his way into the boxing team
or oxford. where he Is still an under
graduate. and which defeated Cam
bridge in the. interuniversity boxing
contest last March. More recently he
failed to carry off the Scottish ANA
teur middleweight championship at
Leith, being beaten on points in three
rounds, his adversary being a riveter
In the Leith shipyards. of the name
of j. j. Robinson. But three. weeks
afterward he defeated ]. A. Hender-
son, a coal miner, and popular ia
Vorite. in a hotiy contested match
gotten up by the Rob Roy Club, at
Henglers Circus, in Glasgow His IA
Vorite boxing mate Is his American
college chum, former Yale man, Ed
ward T.. Egan, now a Rhodes scholar
at Oxford, and 1t is from Egan that
he has acquired much of the Ameri-
can agSresslveness in his style of
hghting. He is extremely anxious to
see some good fighting while in the
United States and will show no re-
iuctance to don the mitts and try his
sRlll and Drawn. in any amateur con-
test that may be arranged for his
entertainment
Although barely twenty, Lord Doug
las IS more developed than most
young fellows OF his age, and last
Ssar travelled over the greater part
OF south America, roughing IL in it's
remote regions, and winding up his
tour by coming north and making
stay or several weeks at Detroit. in
order TO study the production meth
Gus OF Henry Ford in his automobile
Hiaifutacturins industry. When his
father. the present and thirteenth
Duke OF Hamilton. succeeded his re-
iaote kinsman in the dukedom of
Iamilton. in Scotland. az super
chieftain of all the Douglasses, as
Duke of Brandon. in the peerage of
England; of Chateiberault, in France.
ne round. himself burdened with a
heaVy load OF honors and dignities
but with relatively small income on
which 10 maintain them. The late
duke had left all his English prop
erty. as we'll as the Island of Arran.
IN scotland. and. all the money of
which he could dispose. to his only
daughter Mary. now happily married
10 the Marquis OF Graham, son and
heir of the Duke of Montrose In
deed. she had inherited from her
father fortune estimated today at
100000 a year The entail had been
broken by the eleventh Duke of Ham
ilton and not renewed
The late duke might. therefore.
have left everything TO his daughter
and nothing to his successor in the
family honorS, whom he had never
even met. but he had a keen sense of
the honor and obligations of his
house. So he established a trust fund
FOR all his extensive estates and
possessions in Scotland, exclusive of
the Island OF Arran. according to the
terms of which the revenues were to
be devoted to the a amortization of the
heavy debts and mortgage obliga tions
with which they had been burde ned
by his own extravaganza In early life.
but especially by the huge expendi-
lures of. his father, the eleventh duke,
the most magnificent noble of his day
of whom the great Lord Rrougham
was wont to say that he was the
Very duke Of very duke" While this
amortization was in progress the
trustees Were directed to pay to the
present duke an allowance of $4,000
q year. TO be increased TO 100000 as
soon as a moiety of the obligations
had been paid off, while when their
amort ization was complete he was to
be placed in fun possession of the
property without any restrictions. To-
day the amortization is complete. and
today the duke finds himself no
longer one of the poorest, but one of
the very richest peers of the United
Kingdom. the owner, moreover. of
much mineral wealth. His fortune
has been still further increased dur
ing the past twelve months by his
sale Of some $4,000 acres of land,
mainly in the county of Linlithgow,
which. despite the depreciations of
landed property, has realized some
81, 600, 900. Much Of the land of the
duke is held by virtue of grants and
charters dating from the reign Of
King Robert Bruce.
He was formerly a lieutenant in the
royal navy but was forced to retire
from the service by reason of an in