Evening star., 1923-06-25
BY THE MAReUIsE DE FoxTENoY.

Although the new Lord Latymer,
who will be taking his seat In the
upper chamber of parliament at
westminster this week, is only the
sixth baron OF his line, yet his peer
age was created as far back as 1892
by King Henry VI. and he can show
a royal descent from King Edward
III. through the latter's son, John of
Gaunt, first Duke of Lancaster That
he should be only the sixth holder of
this peerage is due to the fact that il
fell into allegiance In 1877 on the
death of its fourth holder. who left
four daughters. from the third of
whom. Lucy. wife of Sir William
CORVALLIS, the late Lord Latymer
was able to show his descent, when
the present king, on the Recommended
tion of the committee on privileges
of the house of lords. terminated the
allegiance in his favor
The new Lord Latymer, who served
in the army and won the rank Of
colonel in the great war, is a man of
about fifty, and Is one OF the prin-
cipal partners in the great London
banking house of Coutts & Co.,
where King George, like his imme-
dlate predecessors on the throne
keeps his private account. He is
married to a daughter of the late
Gen. John Cecil Russell. and has a
came of age last year. The partner
ship in Coutts bank comes to Lord
Iatymer by inheritance. His father,
the late peer, was born as the son of
the late Rev. James Drummond
Money, and of Clara. fourth daughter
fr eIanG,5 sister of the
Baroness, Burdett Coutts. Clara was
the elder sister of the baroness,
and IL Lord Latymer Is today the
dominant shareholder In Coutts bank,
1t is due to the will of Harriet,
Duchess of st. Albans. a former
actress.
When old Tom Coutts.- the great
London banker of King George. Ills
reign, lost his first wife, who is gem
orally understood to have originally
been a female domestic in his house
hold, he became infatuated with the
footlight favorite of the day, Harriet
Mellon. very comely, rather coarse
and vulgar, but extremely kind
hearted woman. She made old Tom
coutts very happy, and when he died
ne left everything that he owned, in
Guiding all his stock in the famous
bank bearing his name, to his widow,
who, by reason of her good looks,
but more especially, Of her immense
wealth, was soon surrounded by a
crowd of sutors for her hand. She
eventually consented to become the
wife of the Duke of st. Adams, lineal-
ly descended in the male line direct
from King Charles II and the orange
selling girl, Nell Gwyn. Neither the
duke. nor his people treated the ex-
actress with the respect or affection
to which she considered herself en-
titled. They were disposed to make
fun Of her social solecisrns, She, is
portrayed in a kindly yet somewhat
sarcastic fashion, in several of the
best. known novels of Lord Beacons-
field. She ended by becoming embit-
tered against the duke. She made a
companion of the younger of the twp
Angela Burdett. For Tom
Coutts' only daughter by his first
wife had married Sir Francis Bur-
dett, who played so notable political
role at the beginning or the last cen
fury as member for the city of Lon
don. - ~
when the duchess died, it was found
that the duke was ignored In her will
and that she had left all the huge
Fortune. that had come to her from
her first husband, Tom Coutts,, to his
younger granddaughter and her
child, Angela Burdett, on the
that she should assume
the name of Coutts in addition to her
own, and that IL she, left NO issiie the
entire property should go to her elder
sister, Clara Burdett, married to the
Rev. James Drummond Money. The
Two sisters got on very well together,
Angela winning world wide fame as
/ philanthrppist, her public benefac-
lions being eventually recognized by
Queen Victorias bestowal upon Her
II a peerage as Baroness Burdett-
Coutts. -,
But the sisters quarreled when
Lady Burdett- Coutts married in 1881
he Brooklyn-born william Ashfnead
Bartlett, her secretary. and her junior |
" near half century MIS-. MONEY
opposed this strange union in the
most downright mariner. and treated
her younger sister to such plain
speech anent her proposed union to
, man young enough to be her grand,
,en,1 that all relations between the
.wo were broken OF. Mrs. Money
the baroness, and AS
here was naturally II no, :, isssi4 o. the
EFT (who WAS compelled by his wife
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