Evening star., 1923-03-11
Viscount Windsor's Transfer to Lords
Adds to Difficulties of BOnar Law

the Confessor. and was enriched by
that monarch with so many valuable
estates, in the possession OF which he
was confirmed by his kinsman. Will
Doomsday Book. as to excite the bit
ter jealousy of the Anglo-Saxon
Thames. His son Walter. who lived
10 n great old age, and who was kept
on as castellau of Windsor Castle by
King Henry I, and by his daughter.
Empress Maud, assumed the desfgna-
tfon of 'De Windsor" by virtue OF his
office, and it has ever since remained.
the patronymic of his scendants.
The late Earl of Plymouth inherited
the Windsor barony from his grand
mother, who was peeress in her own
right, and married the Hon. Robert
Henry Give, youngest son OF the sec
ond Earl of Powis and grandson of
the great Lord Give, the victor of the
battle Of Plassey. fought in 1857. and
which established British dominion in
India.
1t is because Of their descent from
this founder of England's vast en-
pire of Hindustan that Lord Ply
mouth bears the name of Give in
conjunction with that of Windsor.
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Young Lord Plymouth. who dis
tinguished himself as an officer of
cavalry in France and in the Holy
Land during the war, inherits great
wealth. For his father was enor-
mously rich, the entailed estates
alone embracing some $4,000 acres in
Shropshire, in Worcestershire and es-
pecially in the county of Glamorgan,
where much of it is in tho form of
dock property, slate and marble
Quarries and valuable coal mines
The late earl was one of those peers
who believed that the possession of
riches involved public responsible
ties, and he was very charitable,
generous and public-spirited. Thus
few years ago, when the popular
subscription organized to preserve
the Crystal Palace and its extensive
gardens at Sydenham, on the outskirts
of London. from the hands of the
wrecker proved a failure, he supplied
out of his own pocket the million
dollars needed for the purpose. He
felt that the immense glass palace.
familiar to every visitor to London
from these shores and originally built
in 1851 for. the first of those great
international exhibitions that have
been followed by so many others in
all parts of the world. should not be
permitted to disappear but should be
maintained with it's spacious grounds,
it's lakes and its fountains, for the
use of the overcrowded popula tion
Of the metropolis.
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The late earl likewise showed SIM
liar public spirit in Wales, where he
presented parks and public institu-
tions to the various towns identified
with his estates. among them the an
cient city of Cardiff.
These estates in Wales, which have
turned out SO very profitable, came to
his family through Henry VIII. who
gave them to his ancestor in ex-
change for his surrender Of the an
cient lordship of the manor of Wind
Sor.
Young Lord and Lady Plymouth,
like his parents, stand high in the
regard and favor of the royal family.
For Queen Alexandra could never
forget that 1t was the now widowed
Lady Plymouth's father and mother,
the late Sir Augustus and Walpurga
Lady Paget. who brought about her
marriage with Edward VII In 1863.
Walpurga Lady Paget. nee Countess
Of Hohenthal, still survives. Her hus-
band, Sir Augustus, died as ambassa-
dor at Rome, and both Of them figure
prominently and in a pleasing fash
ion in several of the novels of
"Ouida," under transparent pseu-
donymns, In token Of her gratitude for
| the many kindneeses which she had
] received at their hands.