Evening star., 1923-06-08
New Earl of Westmoreland to Wed
Comely Widow With s4,OOO.OOO

In connection with financial difficult
ties. he WAS compelled to admit that
the Joint income of the late Lady
Westmoreland and himself did not
exceed $4,000 a year. His impover-
ishment was due in the main to the
terrible extravaganza OF his father.
tho twelfth earl. and to his own
laudable determination TO pay of
the paternal debts.
The late Lord Westmoreland was
compelled to sell off his ancestral
home, Apthorp Hall in Northampton
shire. to Leonard Brassey for s1,500.-
600. and the treasures which 1t con-
tanned for almost as much more.
But while the sale relieved him of
certain heavy charges and expenses.
it brought him little or no actual
money, everything having been mort
a great wrench In letting Apthorp
go. 1t was a grand old place. the
property embracing an area OF
10, 900 acres. portions of the mansion
dating back as far as Henry III.
while the newer part of the build
ings belonged to the time of Queen
Elizabeth. 1t was granted by Ed
ward VI to Sir Walter Miidmay. founder
OF Emmanuel, Cambridge, and passed
into the very ancient Fame family, OF
which Lord Westmoreland Is the chief.
through marriage, soon after the virgin
queens death
1t cannot be denied that the Earls
Of Westmoreland have sought by
every means in their power to better
their fortunes: Thus, the great
namely. the tenth earl-hnding his
finances reduced to an extremely low
ebb, determined to secure the hand
of the greatest heiress of the day
that is to say. Sarah. only daughter
Of Robert Child, the great London
banker.
Lord Westmorelsnd was dining one
night at the bankers house when he
remarked to him, IF you were in
love with girl. Child. and her
parents would not let you marry her.
what would you do?"
do? Why. run away with her, of
course" was the rash reply of the
banker. who had no idea that the
earl had any matrimonial designs
upon his daughter and heiress.
| Lord westmoreland acted upon the
advice and went off on the following
day with Miss Sarah Child in ortho-
dox fashion-by post chaise-to
Gretna Greene. hotly pursued by the
banker. whose progress, however,
was arrested by Lord westmoreland
shooting one of his horses just as
he was catching up with the fugitive
couple Having sworn in his rage to
disinherit his errant daughter, Child,
who was a great character, would not
break the letter of his vow, but
modified its spirit by leaving his
bank and all his vast fortune to his
favorite grandchild. the eldest daugh-
ter Of Lord and Lady westmoreland,
on the condition that she should be
christened Sarah and take his name OF
Child. He was found dead. drowned in
the lake at Osterly Park, but whether
he committed suicide in a state of de-
spondency or fell in by accident remains
a mystery to this day.
When the eldest daughter OF Lord
Westmoreland grew up she came into
possession OF Osterly Park. of all her
grandfathers great fortune and of
his bank. which passed out of her
fathers family when she married the
property. including Child's Bank, is
today owned by the present Lord
Jersey.
The title of Lord Barnby, who ar
rived in America the other day from
England, Is q somewhat unfamiliar
one, and is only to be found in the
very latest issues Of English stand
ard works of reference. For his
peerage was only created last, year
by King George in favor of Francis
Wiley. head of the leading wool
concern bearing his name at Brad
ford in Yorkshire. and which has
branch establishments at Boston,
Mass, and elsewhere in the United
States. Indeed, it is doubtful whether
there is any great woolen house more
widely known on both sides of the
ocean than that Of the Willeys, and
Lord Barnby's only son and heir. the
Hon. Francis Wiley was appointed
during the great war to be controller
Of all the wool supplies of the gov
ernment, and as the director of the
purchase and distribution CT all Brit.
ish and colonial wool production, his
services winning for him the Order
Of st. Michael and st. George and
OF the British empire. Lord Barnby,
who leaves much of the control Of
his enormous business TO his son and
partner, devotes himself now chiefly
to the turf. and has been paying some
record sums fof-ssens and -f1Aies of
that wonderful-hoaee, Tetrarch.- which,
some insist has been the horse Of
thA ranfurv.