Evening star., 1923-03-08
Lord Chichester, Sixth Earl of Sussex
And Descendant IF Cromwell, Is i'm u. S

and chapel played a notable role 4.
ancient days. The first tournament
ever held in England took place IL.
the castle tilt yard. with Princes
! Adela. the conqueror's daughter. a.
the queen OF beauty st. Thomas
Beckett was the first dean of IT,.
| chapter of the chapel, and later o,.
, William Of Wykeham was one OF il
prebendaries. The entire town O..
Hastings formed part of the castl,.
DOMAIN and the citizens were com
PEELED to garrison it in times of dan
ger from which obligation they freea
themselves by the payment of annual
dues. Although the old fortress HAD
ceased TO belong TO the crown many
hundreds of years ago, passing int
the possession OF the Pelhams. ana
had been in ruins for more thar
three centuries, yet Hastings, tn.
chief of the Cinquo ports, continued
70 pay these dues to the lords Of
; Chichester until the present earl's
sale or the ruins of the castle TO the
large and prosperous town of Has
tings about a decade ago.
Lord Chichester, whose eldest sor.
Lord Pelhan. is now eighteen years
of age, is quite rich. thanks to his
marriage to a daughter of Francis
MlIiiam Suxton OF the great brewing
| FAMILY OF that name, and to which
the Earl Buxton and also Sir Thomas
| Powell Buxton belonged. The Bux-
| tons are somewhat paradoxical, for
although they are one of the largest
brewing concerns in the United king
: dom, from which they have derived
great wealth. they have always bee.
noted for their evangelical lcaninEs
and for their large contributions 70
TIE various temperance and total
abstinence movements.
Sir Thomas Fairbairn, who WAS 2
fellow passenger Of Lord Chichester
on board the Majestic and who is
now here. has an American wife, a
daughter of T. Davis of New York,
by whom he has two sons. the Oldest
of whom, now eighteen years of age.
bears the name of William. Sit
Thomas had an elder son by a. former
marriage, who. known as Roderick
Gordon F'airbairn. met with his death
number of years ago at Bridgeport.
Conn, under rather mysterious cir
cumstances.
! The story Of the Fairbairns is what
may be described as a romance OF
| industry. A little over a hundred
years ago a farm laborer at Kelso,
named F'airbairn, was blessed with
two sons. William and Peter, who
started life as pit boys In the Percy
Main colliery. near Newcastle-on-
| Tyne. It was there that William
Fairbairn, the elder of the boys, made
the acquaintance of George Steven
I son. the father OF railroad transpor-
tation in England. but then employed
as a brakeman on the collier tram
way. and the two young men render,
cd each other mutual assistance and
| formed a friendship which lasted
| through life.
While George Stevenson invented
tho locomotive, William Fairbairn in
: vented riveting machines. etc, and
! developed into one OF the greatest
engineers of his age. among his many
creations having been the tubular
| bridge across the Menal straits. He
was one of the founders of the British
Institution: received baronetcy in
1869, and died at the age OF ninety
in 1874, leaving as heir to his honors
and immense fortune Sir Thomas who
! followed him to the grave in 1891
! He had several children, of whom
the present baronet is one and who
! has been fortunate enough to escape
the infrmity of his sister, Miss Con
stance Fairbairn who is deaf and
dumb, and of his elder brother. the
late Sir Arthur Fairbairn, the third
baronet. who was similarly afflicted
| yet. with all that. one of the mo
popular and useful
men h EnS1Ah pnh1in HeA