Evening star., 1923-03-09
De Forest, Grandson of Baron Hirsch,
Surrendered Title Given by Austria

suits. The one was brought by Lorl
Knollys, King Edwards secretar,
against London newspaper whic,
had mentioned without the sligh;es,
| warrant the name of his then un-
married daughter as the lady in the
| case. and the newspaper was mulcted
as 1t we'll deserved, in very heavy
Then, fater on, Maurice de Fores,
! brought suit for libel against his
Gerard, and her brother, Harry
Miner, for having slandered him, In
connection with that suit the entire
story OF the baroness fight to the
1alarlc Islands, In the Mediterranean
was again brought to light.
owing to the prejudice against De
forest, as a foreigner. and the diff-
Guilty or his securing testimony IL
support of his allegations from the
Eari or Derby and a number of other
ciety. whom. greatly to their disgust.
ne had suopoenaed, he was unable to
establish his charges. A few months
a1terward, to every ones amazement,
ne became reconciled to his wife. and
gether.
De Forest. after his marriage, en-
deavored to make a success in politi
cal lie. He managed to get himself
elected to membership Of the London
county council. and later on as men, =
ber OF Parliament, for the suburban
metropolitan division of West Ham
But here again he fell afoul Of his
wifes tory relatives. For he identi-
fed himself with Lloyd George, and
became one of the latter's most ag-
gressive adherents in the ex-premier's
new chancellor of the excheauer's rev
olutionary reforms in the ownership
ana taxation of land. And when, late r
on. Lloyd George proposed him ard
Winston Spencer Churchill seconded
him for election to the Reform Club
tne stronghold of the liberal party
ana he was blackballed there, both
or hts sponsors resigned, only rejoin-
ing the club some years later.
During the great war. De Forest Sc
cured a commission as lieutenant
commander OF the Royal Naval Volun-
teer Reserve. and was also attached
FOR time to the armored car force,
but was prevented by his parliament
ary duties from doing any extensive
service at the front. / need scarcely
add that he has long ago abandoned
the ha faith Of his forefathers. and and li; has
Church. in which his two sons-the
eldest of them now eighteen years old
have been brought up.
Maurice De Forest has strain of
American blood in his veins. For his
mother was a Miss De Forest Of New
York, though no connection whatso-
ever of the we'll known De Forest
family of which Robert De Forest.
the president of the Metropolitan Mu-
scum Of New York. is the chief.
Maurice De Forest ana his brother
were at Eton and at Oxford under
their mothers name, and when they
were adopted in the first place by
, Baron Hirsch, and then by his wife.
they assumed the baroness maiden
name of Bischoffshedm in addition
to that which they owed to their
American mother. Indeed. the patents
OF the baronies conferred upon them
by the late Francis Joseph, and since
dropped by Maurice. were made out
in the name of Maurice and Raymond
De Forest Bischoffshei i'm.
Maurice, by the by. sold before
the outbreak Of the great war the
great Bohemian estate of EichoEn,
which he had inherited from BaPn
Hirsch, and has now no landed prop
erty, either in England or on the con-
tinent. and although piled" by the
Reform Club, is a member of the
Marlborough and several other Lon
don clubs Of q social and political
character. -