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rior King OF Poland. who raised the
Turkish siege of Vienna and liberated
Hungary from her Ottoman bondage.
Her marriage was not happy one.
But she was officially acknowledged
as Queen OF England by Pope Glenn
ent XI, who placed the Mutt Palace.
on the square of the Holy Apostles, d
her disposal. Entombed with royal
honors in st. Peters, a splendid buc
rather inartistic memorial was erect
ed by Pope Benedict XIV over her
tomb.
Beneath the Canova monument.
which marks the tombs of her hus-
band and that of her eldest son, some
times called the young chevalier. in
the great cathedral. there lies ais"
her younger son. Henry Stuart. who
died as a cardinal of the Roman
Catholic Church, and who is now
known to have received a pension of
$4,000 "A year from King George ~
years of his life. An inscription OF
the monument proclaims him to have
been King Henry IX of Great Britain
and Ireland.
Lord Berwick. whose country sea-
at Attingham Hall, near Shrewsbury,
has just been the scene of an i'm
portant burglary, which involved the
loss of number of old masters. was
s4or several years connected with the
British embassy in Paris. where he
had many American friends. Indeed.
they looked upon him as quit"
desirable bachelor. and his marriage
to one of his own countrywomen---
namely. Edith, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Stokes Hutton of
Eenice-created much disappointment.
The pictures at Attingham Hall
been formed by the third Lord Ber-
wick during his residence in Italy as
British ambassador to the court of
Naples, and included. until the recent
burglary. some Of the finest works of
Murillo, of VelaSqueZ and of Titan.
Lord Berwick's family. which bear
the patronymic of Hill, is descended
from one John Harwood. linen
draper at Shrewsbury, who married
Margaret. sister of Richard Hill, King
William lis paymaster general Of
the army in Flanders. This paymaS
ter amassed. as army paymaSteTS
were apt to do in those days. an
enormous fortune, which he divided
between his two nephews-the onc
a son of his brother, druggist at
Wem, who became the ancestor of the
present Eiscount Hill. while the other
nephew and heir of the remaining
moiety of the paymaster's wealth was
Thomas Harwood, son of his sister
and of the latter's husband, the
Shrewsbury dry goods man.
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Tom HarWood, on the strength OF
his legacy assumed his uncle's
2atronymic of Hill. became member
of parliament for Shrewsbury. served
for time as British envoy at .Rrys-
sells. and declined the offer Of ah
Irish peerage on the ground that it
was not good enough, as 1t did not
carry with it a seat in the house CT
lords. His son, Noel Hill. made sucn
nuisance of himself In the houS5
of commons that, solely in order to
get rid OF him, he was elevated to the
house Of lords for his parliamentary
services" assuming the title of Lord
Berwick of Attingham,
Contrary to what has been alleged
in print, the late Sir Rowland Hill,
Father OF the penny post system in
Great Britain, was no connection OF
the houses of either Lord Hill or Of
Lord Berwick, but was the son of
Thomas W.. Hill, Birmingham
schoolmaster.
Lord Berwick, by-the-by, takes his
title, not, as so many imagine, from
Berwick Tweed, but from the manor
of Berwick Mavlston, the latter a cor
ruption Of the French Malvoisin in the
parish of Atcham, a few miles from
Shrewsbury, and of the London and
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