Evening star., 1923-03-19
BY THE MARaUIsE DE FoNTENoI.

Colonel the Earl of Rocksavage. a
veteran of the Boer campaign of
quarter Of a century ago and Of the
great war. whose prowesses on the
tennis court and the polo field are
familiar to many Americans, married
TO the colossalIy rich Sybil Sassoon,
only sister of Sir Philip Sassoon, has
Just become a peer OF the realm and
joint hereditary lord great chamber
lain of England through the death. OF
his fathe-, the fourth Marquis OF
Cholmondeley (whose name is pro-
nounced Chumley).g The new mar
chioness has served as hostess to
number Of the leading statesmen OF
Europe, many of whose conferences
have been held in England at the
country seat of her bachelor brother,
Philip, one OF the principal private
secretaries Of Lloyd George. or at the
Sassoon villa in the south of France
where she did the honors for him.
world-famed Jewish banking house
Of the Sassoons OF Bombay. a concern
which for hundreds of years made its
headquarters at Bagdad, whence 1t
financed the whole commerce OF cen
trail Asia, and, indeed. of the entire
orient. retaining to this day the man
agement and control of the immense
Eastern Telegraph System. The new
marquis and his wife have three chll- :
dren, two of them boys, the elder OF
who, heretofore known as E1Scount
Malpas, now becomes Earl of Rock
savage.
The late peers death was not un-
expected, for a few weeks ago, while
out after the hounds, though in the
neighborhood of seventy. he came a
terrible cropper while taking a fence,
badly fracturing his thigh and sus-
tanning other internal injuries. His
son, the new peer, came to America
in August. 1910. along; with the late
Lord Athlumney, the then Mrs. John
Jacob Astor, now Lady Ribblesdale,
and a whole party of friends and
acquaintances, was extensively enter
tanned at Newport, and was reported
to be engaged in turn to several
wealthy widows and heiresses, no
match, however. resulting.
Thanks to his marriage to Sybil
Sassoon, a remarkably goodlooking
woman in pronouncedly< oriental
way, he was able, through her great
tunes, to lift most of the heavy en-
cumbrances from the entailed estates.
Comprising some $4,000 acres of land
| in the counties of Norfolk and OF
Chester, and to recover possession OF
the superb Cholmondeley country
seat, Houghton Hall, in Norfolkshire,
leased first Of all to the late Heber
Bishop Of New York, afterward to
Col and Mrs. Ralph Vivian (the lat
ter widow Of the late Marshall Rob
erts of New York;, and then to Coro,
Countess of Stratford. who, before
marrying the late earl of that ilk,
was the widow of Samuel Colgate OF
New York and native of New Or
| leans.
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Perhaps, now that. the new Marquis
Of Cholmondsiey has become the ac-
tual master OF Houghtop Hall, for
centuries the home Of the Walpoles
he will, thanks to his swife's riches
| be able to repurchase the front steps
of the stately. mansion. (which came
| to the Cholmondeleys through the
| marriage Of Lady Mary Walpole
daughter OF the first Earl of York, tc
George, third Earl Cholmondeley. II
| Is owing to the absence OF these from,
steps that the present principal en-
| trance to the house is in the rear in,
stead Of at the front. iThe latter
| with its imposing rows sot column