Evening star., 1923-06-17
Lord Marlborough, British Hero
OF World War, to Visit Capital

the queer old powder rooms They are
series of cupboards, a little larger
than telephone booths, into which
men and women of the seventeenth
ana eighteenth centuries retired in
order to be subjected to the repowder-
ing OF their wigs and of their hair.
Very few old-time mansions have re-
tanned them, and they are so scarce
nowadays that even where they sur
vive their one time use has been for
gotten.
Methley likewise boasts of pic
ture gallery full of superb paintings
ny Sir Thomas Lawrence. One of
men mem represents the, wife Of the third
baby. Sir Thomas Lawrence had
been commissioned and paid by the
earl to paint her. He used to take
an inordinate time to finish his pic
times for his delay in delivering the
picture. Years later, the earl met
Sir Thomas out at dinner and declar-
ed that he really must have the pic
ture.
well" said Sir Thomas I've been
long time. I'll allow; but I've got
well forward with Lady Marlborough:
it's the baby wants finishing. But if
her ladyship would kindly bring the
baby and give. me another sitting, 1
Well, Sir Thomas" said Lord
to give you another sitting as soon as
you like. but-the baby is now in
the Guards"
Most of the perpetual pensions
granted in times past, either by the
out of existence, through the eXtinc-
tion of the heirs. or through COM
mutation. Very few of them survive
among the most notable being that
of $4,000 year payable to the col
lateral heirs of England's naval hero,
is descended from Mrs Thomas Boil
ton. the eldest sister of the victorious
commander of the battle of Trafalgar
In the event of the failure of any
male heirs of Mrs. Bolton, then the
descendants in the male line of his
other sister, Catherine. married to
George Matcham of Slaugham, Sus-
sex, will inherit the earldom and the
perpetual pension attached to the
earldom. So that until ali the de-
scendants nth in the male line of the
Thomas Bolton and Mrs. George
Matcham, die out and the earldom
lapses. the pension of S25,000 will
have to be paid by the British treasury
Another perpetual pension which is
still being paid is that to the Lords
Rodney as heirs of that great naval
commander, Sir George Rodney, who
was granted $4,000 a year for him
self and for his heirs in the male
line direct in recognition Of his vic
tory of the naval battle of Cape St.
Vincent in 1880, and of his victory in
1882 over the French fleet command
ed by Admiral Comte de Grasse, a vic
tory which brought about the peace
of Versailles in 1888. The present
Lord Rodney, who distinguished him.
self in the late war as a captain of
dragons. and later on as major of
the Tank Corps, makes his home
with his wife and young children in
the Dominion, where he has a large
ranch in Alberta, near Fort Sas-
katchewan, and where he thoroughly
enjoys the free and active life He
has turned over his hereditary pen
sion to his widowed mother, and this
raised question in the house of COM
mons the other day by the labor
members as to whether he had any
authority to transfer his rights to
this perpetual pension to anybody
else, the government stating in reply
that there was nothing in the way of
any such transfer.