Evening star., 1923-09-27
by THE MARaU1sE DE FoNTENoT.

BY THE MARQUIsE DE FoNTENof'
England has lost, through the
death of the second and last Marquis
of Ripon, her greatest game shot. HIS
records of $50 pheasants in day. 10
his own gun, the most difficult sort
of a bird to shoot by reason OF lls
rock citing flight; of $50 rabbits Win
lust 1000 cartridges on another Day
and Of 500 grouse. have never been
haaten. the only one who came any
where near him having been the iate
Lord Walsingham, whose aim was SO
sure that he used to shoot "asps
on the wing with a miniature rlie.
Indeed, Lord Ripon had to MS recoru
over Ann Gao head of game during the
last thirty years.
/ Like his father, the cabinet minister
and viceroy of India. whom ne ac-
COMMANDED to Washington in 1871 as
secretary of the royal ALABAMA
claims commission, of which the ola
statesman was president, he was quite
short and stocky, presenting In TINS
rasnect a striking contrast to his
varv handsome and popular wife, who
rosssssed the unusual stature ana
stateliness of carriage of her brothers
the late Lord Pembroke and the late
Cir Michael Herbert. She was the
r,ovine spirit of the Covent Garden
Opera, which owed its success as an
artistic and social feature of each
london season to her enthusiastic
.nnnort and to the financial backing
of her enormously wealthy husband,
who shared her musical tastes. For
although it was not generally known,
Lord Ripon had q wonderful tenor
voice, trained by Jean de Reszke, and
II was. music that drew the late
Marchioness Of Ripon, even when she
was a young GIRL, and. afterward, as
wife of the late Lord Lonsdale. so
closely and intimately to Queen Alex
andra.. and much CT their time was
spent in playing duets.
K X X !:
Edward VII and his consort were
among the most intimate friends of
the Ripons and were largely instru-
mental in bringing about her second
marriage to the late marquis. after
she had become engaged, in turn, to
two men, who, each. of them. left her
in the lurch and broke off the match
quite late in the day on the discovery
that she had more debts than fortune.
She had been treated in the most
shameful manner by her first nus.
band, the late Lord Lonsdale, who
squandered his great wealth and
q large fortune upon q
former Gatety actress, now a peeress
OF the realm, to whom he left an IN
come of near a quarter of q million
dollars, while he made no provision
for his widow and daughter
That the then Lady Lonsdale MADE
NO. attempt to secure redress for the
wrongs which she had received at his
hands, either in the divorce tribunal
or in that of probate in connection
with his testamentary dispositions,
was keenly appreciated at court as
having saved society from not one,
but several, disgraceful' scandals,
queen Victoria being especially ap-
preciative of thla forbearance. on her
part King Edward. tho most for
giving of men, bore q hearty grudge
against the two men who had Tilted
her by reason of her impecuniosity,
and while one was restored to royal
favor toward the end of his life, at
the personal instance of Lady Ripon,
the other was never pardoned, ana IL
was by reason of this royal prejudice
that, although. a conspicuous figure
on <the turf and possessed of a large
and costly racing stable, he was per-
sistently piled" by the Jockey Club
until the late king was no, ION ger
thereto cast his black ball: -
: King EdEaxS - Queen Alexan.