Evening star., 1923-12-08
Mentor to Youthful Royalty
Has Task of Great Proportions

guidance over him since he was
| boy. The Duke of York has many
| American friends. To every one of
| them Louis Greig is a familiar figure.
! and the news of his resignation will
| be a source of regret.
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Lord Campden. who in the period
| Immediately preceding the war was at
| tached TO the staff of the late Sir Cecil
| Spring Rice at the British embassy AT
! Washington and afterward won several
| orders, distinctions and promotion to
| the rank of major Of the Gloucester
shire Regiment at the front in France,
has just been presented by his wife.
! formerly Miss Alice Eyre, with his first
! son, who is next to him in the line of
! succession TO his fathers eardom of
Gainsborough. Lord Campden, who was
| at one time engaged 10 the daughter of
Egerton Castle, the novelist and cham
pion fencer, is, like his parents, a Ro-
man Catholic. The Noels, of whom
Lord Gainsborough is the chief. have
not always been Catholics. Indeed. the
late Earl of Gainsborough, renowned for
his piety and for his philanthropy. was
! the first to turn to the Church of Rome,
| being received into it by Pope Plus IN
| himself. Lord and Lady GainsbOrolIgh
| were so affected at the decisive au-
| dience granted to them by his holiness
! that they wept, whereupon their little
| daughter, Lady Blanche Noel, convinced
/ that the holy father was ill-uSing her
| parents, proceeded to attack him most
! vigorously with fists and kicks. She
/ died in America, coming to this country
I at the time of her romantic marriage
| with Thomas Murphy. The latter was
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| chapel at EXton Park, the ancestral
home of the Noels in Rutlandshire.
| Through Lady Blanche's interest in the
| chapel music. she was brought into
| daily contact with the organist. a hand
some, fascinating young Irishman, and
| in the most natural and simple manner
| it came about that, after the service
| was over and the rest of the family and
| the household had left the chapel, she
\ should remain to- practice the music
with him. 1t is nothing strange that in
the hours sitting together. after mathis
! and vespers, at the organ, the young
enthusiastic Lady Blanche and the inn
pulsive young Irish Organist should have
| fallen in love with each other.
| After their marriage Lady Blanche
| found the prejudices of her family
f; and of her relatives against her hus-
| band, on account of his birth, to be
too strong to admit of their remain
! ing in England without being sub
| jected to all sorts of humiliations.
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| States to embark upon a new life
and to earn their living, Lady Blanche
| in the realms of literature and
| Thomas Murphy, first as the or
! ganist at New Rochelle, n. Y, and
| then as organist at North New Con-
| way, ~ H, where he also taught
music at the Rev. Frederick TIL
| sons Boys School at Three Elms.
Lady. Blanche wrote great deal for
| the Atlantic Monthly, for Scribner's,
| the Catholic Review, etc, yet found
| time to do all her housework. For
she and her husband were too poor
| Howells was their warm friend and
mentor in literature, and was wont
to declare that Lady Blanche had
| the most analytical mind of any wo-
| man he had ever known.
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| without being beautiful she was a
pretty little woman, with fresh
] rosy face, framed with thick gold
+, brown hair; very modest and very
shy; altogether singularly attractive.
| She died very suddenly from pneu-
| monia in 1881, at the age of thirty
| FIVE, her husband surviving her un-
! til 1890, and while his remains have
found resting place on this side
of the Atlantic, hers were taken
over to England and repose beside
\ those of her parents in the family
| mausoleum at Exton Park.
| Lord Campden has a strain of royal
| blood in his veins, his grandmother,
| the wife of the second Earl of Gains
borough, being the daughter of that
iCountess of Enroll who was one of the
lgrandchildren of King William w and
Mrs Jordan. Even before coming to
America with Sir Cecil Spring Rice,
lord Campden had travelled extensive
ly in the United States. For he had
accompanied his sister, Lady Moral b
Noel, to the western hemisphere when
4 she took part, as one of the soloists
Of the Sheffield choir, in the great in
iternational musical festival at Cincin-
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