Evening star., 1923-12-03
Hebrew Bible Codex, Interesting British
Alliance and ChurchilI's Disclosures

TREY TO the administration OF the
great mining concern in Dur
hamShire to which he and his elder
iDrother, Lord AIlendale, owe their
immense fortunes
Hubert Beaumont did not long sur
we the death of his popular wife
which her father attributed to the
Iact that she had been married fron,
battie Abbey. which he had leased for
a number of years and which was
nurdened with a curse placed upon II
pF us last abbot. The latter who
was grossly maltreated by the SOL
dlers or King Henry VII when at the
time OF the Secularization OF all
church property ne confiscated the
abbey in order to bestow il upon his
IiaSorite, Sir Anthony Browne. The
aprp' an5 his warned Sir Anthony that he
might occupy Battle Abbey, would
suffer dire misfortune, through fire
and through water and 1t NAV be
recalled that the house of Browne.
which received the vlscounty of Mon.
tague. became extinct through the
drowning of the last viscount while
endeavoring to swim across the Rhine
Just above the falls of Schaffhausen,
while his two nephews, sons of his
swept away and drowned under their
mothers very eyes while playing
among the rocks on the seashore at
Bognor in Sussex. 1t was after the
Iedtu VI AITS. ftupert beaumont that
her father got rid of the lease OF
Battle Abbey, which is now occuniad
as school.
With regard TO the future Mrs.
Michael Beaumont, her father was
formerly postmaster general, chancel-
lor of the Duchy of Lancaster and
minister of education in the last
Lloyd George administration. and was
raised to the peerage in 1917, as Lord
Gainford. He has been a FREQUENT
visitor to the United States. is mar
ried to the only daughter of the late
Gen. Sir Henry HaveIock Allan, V. C..
and has an only son, married to Miss
Veronica Noble, sole child and heiress
of Sir George Noble. Like his elder
brother. Sir Alfred Pease, who enter
tained the late Theodore Roosevelt on
his huge and widely known Kilimina
Ranch, in British East Africa, which
is simply swarming with game, he is
great grandson of old Edward
Pease, the Quaker father Of English
railroads and the most intimate asso-
ciate and partner OF George Steven
son in the construction of the Stock
ton and Darlington railroad, the first
in England. Edwards son Joseph
was the creator of the now impor-
tant industrial town of Middleborough,
and the first Quaker member OF par
lament, his objection to taking the
oath of allegiance prior to his as
sumption OF his seat in the house of
commons leading to many acrimo-
nious debates there in 1892. His son,
in turn, was created a baronet at the
instance of Gladstone. In 1882. for
his numerous philanthropies. and
came in for no end of criticism among
the Quakers in America and In Eng
land for accepting the baronetcy at
the hands of Queen Victoria. not only
because all titular distinctions are
contrary to the spirit and doctrines
of the Society of Friends, but also by
reason Of the fact that baronetcies
specifically entail the obligation to
furnish the sovereign with a certain
number of men fully armed for serv-
ice in war-an obligation now com
pounded for by the payment OF GER
tain lump sum to the crown on the
registration Of the patent. This was
held to be diametrically opposed to
the principle of peace at all costs.
which is one of the chief articles OF
the creed of the Society of Friends.