Evening star., 1923-09-10
BY THE MARaUIsE DE FoNTENoY.

BY THE MARQUIsE DE FoNTENOY.
Sir capel wolseley. who has just
been run down and killed by a motor
car near Southwood. in England, is
a nephew, by marriage, of Lord
Knolfys, throughout near half CEN
tury the private secretary of King Ed
ward. He is the Irish baronet of the
House Of WoIseley and must not he
lconfounded with the English baroneta
Sir Charles Wolseley. who has an
American wife IN the person of Anita,
daughter Of the late Daniel T. Murphy
of San Francisco and New York. The
late Sir Capel wolseley, Sir Charles
Wolseley and the late field marshal
! Viscount Wolseley. all belong to one
of the very old families of England,
one that can prove by authentic and
official documentary evidence still in
existence an unbroken descent, In the
male line. from early Anglo-Saxon
times and the inheritance OF the same
ancestral lands from a period long
anterior TO the Norman conquest. The
IestateS In question are now In the pos
session of the English baronet and
were bestowed by King Edgar upon
connection with the determination OF
the Evolves in England. The lands
thus granted were those of Wisslei in
the county of Stafford. and in conse-
himself Siwardus OF Wisele,. whiche
| in course of time, became corrupted
into Wolseley.
It is on account of his services in
connection with the determination, of
wolves in England that a VOLTS head
all the Wolseleys and that the wolf
also appears in the family motto,
which is Homo homini lupas" imam
is a wolf to his fellow mani. a
singularly appropriate motto for a
house which has furnished so many
soldiers to the state as the Wolse1eys.
In the reign of Edward w the
owner Of the Wolseley property in
Staffordshire caused portion of his
lands there to be inclosed for use as
deer park, by permission of the
crown. Sir Charles Wolseley's bar
onetcy is one of the oldest in exist
ence, having been created in 1923 In
favor of Sir Robert Wolseley, who was
James household which was intrusted
with the issue of royal patents be-
slowing honors. The Irish baronetcy
of the late Sir Capei Wolseley was
created a little over q hundred years
Woreey IN Of Mount wdseey M in coantS
Carlow, member of parliament for
that shire and who had inherited all
the Irish estates of his grandfather
Sir Charles Wolseley of Wolseley in
Staffordshire.
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Sir capei, who is succeeded in his
family honors by a very remote
cousin, now Sir Reginald Beatty
wolseley. a bachelor of about fifty,
was, prior to the war. British vice
consul at Archangel and during the
international confiagrat,on saw serv-
ice with the East Surrey regiment on
the peninsula of Gallipoli and in the
Holy Land, while, in the latter por-
with the British expeditionary forces
/ in northern Russia. He could. like
sir Charles, show, on the distaff side,
descent from Lionel, royal duke of
Clarence. second son of King, Edward
III. Sir Charles half American son
ana heir Is Capt Edric wolseley, who
greatly distinguished himself as
cavklry' officer during the great war
and Is married to his co-religio1ist.
Miss Clara Trafoord. He has several
children, and, in addition 60 his fa-
ther's ancestral estates in Staffordshire,
will inherit his mothers large fortune
end property, mostly situated in Cali
fornia. :
with regard to the late. field mar
shai's viscounty, 1t was inherited BY
virtue of a special provision in the
patent granted by Queen Victoria, by
his only daughter, who is now vis-
countess WolseIey in her own right.
Owing to unfortunate investments. the
field marshal left his Canadian born
widow In rathsr straitened circuna-
stances and also his daughter. The
latter. q very clever and energetic
woman and her fathers confidant and
companion in the closing years of his
life, took up landscape gardening. lln-
til then merely her hobby. as means
of livelihood. Not content with de-
signing and experimenting the lay-
Ing out Of gardens, she started an