Evening star., 1923-09-08
German Foe of the Former Kaiser
Dying at Zurich in Abject Poverty

may, indeed. be dead when this appears
in print. But his name will be remem-
bered for hundreds of years to come as
the publisher of the most extraordinary
and revealing series of intimate diaries
or statesman. who. as chancellor
and premier, as uncle of the late kali
serin, as cousin of Queen Victoris.
and as related to half the reigning
houses of Europe, was one of the
principal actors in the history of the
entire last half of the nineteenth
century.
Lord Elphinstone. who has Just
been entertaining Queen Mary during
the past week at Carberry Tower, has
been appointed by King George. TO
be captain of his ancient bodyguard
for Scotland, which is also known as
the Royal Company of Archers. all
the privates of which, armed3on state
occasions, with their long bows and
arrows, are highland chieftains and
lairds of ancient lineage and of large
territorial possessions, while the Off
GERS of the regiment are, each one of
them, Scottish peers of the realm.
Thus, Lord Elphinstone succeeds to
the captaincy left vacant by the death
was. prior to the great war, a fire.
quent visitor tothe United States and
Canada, having done plenty of big
game shooting in America, in the
ROCKIES, in Alaska and I'D in Maine
where he still holds the record of the
biggest moose ever killed. He has
Deen great explorer and can boast
or having been the only British peer
OF the realm to penetrate into Tibet
I'll III,
amount of adventure in the wilds of
Siberia and in Turkestan, with Mr.
Van der Byle as his companion, and
may be said to have inherited his
accompanied James Anthony Froude
on his trip around the world in 1854
Lord Elphinstone Is married to Lady
Mary Bowes Lyon, daughter of the
fourteenth Earl of Strathmore and
elder sister of the now royal Duchess
of York. He is of medium height
clean Shaven, fair complexion and
good looking. Also, he is very well
oft. having inherited extensive
estates, some of which have been in
David, while his peerage, of which he
Is the sixteenth holder, was bestowed
upon Sir Alexander Elphinstone, who
lost his life four years later. in the
great battle of Flodden field.
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Carberry Tower, where Lord Elphin-
stone has been entertaining Queen
Mary, is perched on the very point
of hill which rises, near the coast.
at point where the river Esk flows
into the Firth of Forth. Close by is
the battlefield of Pinkie, where the
second Lord Elphinstone fell. Car
berry Tower is the scene of many
historical event. 1t was there that
Mary, Queen of SCOTS. and Bosworth
parted, never to meet again and il
also fgured in the famous old his
torical ballad known as "Quincey's
Revenge"
Lord Elphinstone's promotion has
led to that of Brig. Lord Rollo,
peer. whose existence is ignored by
most Englishmen and yet which has
been familiar for centuries to every
one north of the Tweed He owns
large estates in Perthshire and In
County Dumfries that go with the
title. including Duncrub castle, near
Dunning. Duncrub castle has been
when II was bestowed by Robert H.
by means of charter bearing his
sign manual and still in existence,
upon John Rollo, who was the faith
full secretary and sagacious counsellor
and mentor Of the kings son. David
Earl of Strathafrn. Duncrumb was
elevated into a barony by another
scotland, who was afterward James
I Of the United Kingdom, raised the
Rollo of his day to the peerage, as
Lord Ro|lo ct puneFub.