Evening star., 1923-10-13
BY THE MARaUIsE DE FoNTENo1

BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOn. L.
John Jay Pierrepont of Brook
] lyn Heights, who died suddenly the
| other day on train on his way
| home from Bar Harbor. was the son
of Henry Evelyn Pierrepont, founder
/ of Greenwood cemetery and of the
| Brooklyn Academy of Music, and was
the head of the senior branch of the
| old Anglo Norman house of Pierre
pont, which is represented in Eng
! land by the present Earl of ManVers.
| Moreover, the nephew and second
| heir to the earldom and viscounty and
| barony of Lord Manvers is Capt. Ger
vaise Evelyn Pierrepont, who won a
number of distinctions in the great
war and who is married to an Amer
ican heiress, the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frederick William Butterfield.
! The latter, hailing from New York
are connections of the Roosevelts,
and have for some time past been
making their home in Europe, hav-
| ing a very hospitable London house
on Curzon street, a country seat III
Yorkshire known as Cline castle
near Keidleigh; house in Paris on
i 3
/ the immediate vicinity of the Arc de
! Triomphe-and a very charming villa
at Nice. Mrs. Buttertield was a MISS
Mary Roosevelt Burke of New York,
daughter of Mr.. H. Burke.
The founder of the Pierrepont fam
| lily was Sir Robert Pierrepont, one of
the companions in arms of William
the Conqueror at the battle of Hast
| ingS, and who received from that
monarch the manor of Holme pierre
\ IT. - n 4 II
he was the first lord. The chief or
the family in the seventeenth CEN
| tury, in the male line. direct, was Sir
-! George Pierrepont. whose grandson
became Earl of Kingston, Marquis OF
Dorchester and Duke of Kingston.
married the famous beauty Elizabeth
Chudleigh, and died without issue,
the English Pierreponts thereupon
| becoming extinct in the male line.
/ X Y
Now, Sir George Pierrepont, the
grandfather of the first Duke OF
Kingston, had younger son of the
| name Of William Pierrepont. whose
son, James Pierrepont, came to Amer
| ica and settled at Roxbury, Mass III
1886, leaving two sons, John and Rob-
ert. From these Julia Pierrepont, the
mother of the late Pierpont Morgan
and the other American Pierrepohts
| including John Jay Pierrepont OF
| Brooklyn, who died last week, are de-
scended in a direct line. But, while
! the Pierreponts of America may just
| ~ claim to represent the only exist
! ing male line of the ancient and his
Ioric Anglo-Norman house of Pierre
pont, they can put forward no pre-
| tensions to any of the honors of Eve
| lyn Pierrepont, the last Duke OF
3! Kingston, since the various peer
ages which he possessed We're ac-
| quired by his father considerably y
after the other branches had emil
grated to America, and, though the
| last duke had no children, he Wliled
\ the whole of his large fortune, in
! GLIDING his ancestral home. the manor
of Holme Pierrepont, in Nottingham
| English history as the only duchess
who has ever been tried by the house
OF lords on a charge Of bigamy.
When ms teetamenta4sy e 4 ofsp6Sl IS 81 ions
/ tune and to his estate were made by
| married to Philip Meadows. Together
they presented claims for the annul-
ment of the dukes will on the ground
that the duchess was not his wife.
| and was described therein as such in
| error, consequently that the will was
\ as invalid as her marriage. The most
| extraordinary cause celebre" ensued
/ in the house of lords. Evidence was
produced there to show that prior to
her marriage with the last Duke OF
| Kingston, the former Elizabeth Chud-
leigh renowned as the greatest
/ beauty of her day, had been secretly
married to Augustus Hervey, at that
time lieutenant of the royal navy,
bpt who Mad In the meanttmsA be-