Evening star., 1923-02-23
Firmness of Curzon and Allenby
Insures Law and Order In Egypt

! administration. which met with uni
versal approval and applause on the
part of the remainder OF the members
of the upper house.
Lord Sheffield is the lay chieftain
OF the Congregational Church in Eng
land. His only surviving brother is
Mgr. Stanley. domestic prelate of the
Pope, and titular Bishop of Emmaus.
who makes his home at Rome, and for d
long time was reea rded as inspirinE
If not actually inditing. very remark
able letters and dispatches published
in the London Times. under the Ro-
man date, dealing with Vatican and
papal matters
An elder brother of Lord Sheffield.
the late Lord Stanley of Alderly. was
a convert to Islam, and was buried IN
rnconsecrated ground in Alderly
Fark. the family place in Cheshire
Effendi Imaun, the spiritual adviser
of the former Turkish embassy III
London.
Lord Sheffield's youngest daughter.
the former Hon. Beatrice Venetia
Stanley, enjoys the distinction OF
having been the first member of the
British peerago to abjure Chris
tianity for the sake of Judaism, In
order to save her husband, the RI
Hon. Edwin Samuel Montagu, former
secretary of state for India, from
disinheritance. His father. the late
the strictest and most orthodox ele
ment of English Judaism, and pro-
vlded in his will that no son or
daughter of his who married outside
of the Jewish faith should share in
his colossal fortune. Mrs. MontaCu,
by the way, presented her husband
with a son on the day of the golden
wedding of her parents.
One of Lord Sheffield's nephews ST.
George Lane FoA-Pitt is a professin,.
of IN 10 re
in-law, now dead. was a self-pro
claimed atheist. Lord Sheffield's elder
son and heir is the Hon. Sir Lyulph
Stanley. who served throughout the
tralian colony of Victoria, after hav
ing put in several years in the house
of commons. He is married to Miss
Margaret Gordon, great-grand-
daughter OF the famous actor, John
Kemble.
The first Lord Sheffield, from whom
the present peer is descended on the
distaff side, received his coronet as
Il reward for having saved the Bank
of England at a moment when the
Old Lady of Threadneedle Street was
in greater danger than at any other
moment of her eXistence--namely
during the terrible Gordon riots Of
1850 In fact had it not been for
Cob John Baker IIolroyd, with a Sus-
sex militia regiment of his own rails
ing the London mob would have sue
cee6ed in storming, looting and de-
stroying the most famous financial
institution in the world Col. Hol-
royd managed to beat off the mob's
attack upon the bank only after
some very hard fighting In the fol-
lowing year the colonel was reward
ed with an Irish barony, taking his
title from Sheffield Park. in Sussex,
which he had inherited from his ma
ternal uncle, Rev James Baker. His
Irish peerage was granted, with spe-
cial remainder to his daughter by
his first marriage, and that is how
it happens to come into the posses
sion Of it's present holder, head OF
u junior branch of the historic house
of Stanley and who is his great
grandson.
The title of Lord Sheffield and the
name Of Sheffield Park are familiar
| to bibliophiles this side of the Allan
| tic. For the late Lord Sheffield dis
persed by sale at Sotheby's. in Lon
| don. his magnificent and unique
| collection of books, pamphlets. etc,
relating to America, nearly all of
| which were purchased for collectors
! in the United States.