Evening star., 1923-05-30
Viscount Maidstone. With American
Wife, Visiting in United States

Thus. last year she accompanied
the Duke and Duchess of Suther-
land on Il big game, shooting expedt-
zion in British East Africa, starting
the dark continent, and returning by
way of the Nile-that is to say, down
the river by way of Khartum, AS
stout, Cairo and Alexandria-and
bringing home many trophies of the
chase of big game that had fallen
to her rife. .
When Lady Maidstone married it
was anticipated that her parents.
now divorced, would furnish the
money needed TO repair Kirby Hall,
the wonderful ancestral country
place of the lords of Winchilsea in
Northamptonshire. Indeed, SO thor
oughly understood was this that
Lord WinchiIsea transferred the en-
tire property to his son. Her parents,
the Anthony Drexels. paid several
visits to Northamptonshire for the
sake of making careful inspection
of the property.
The money. however, was not forth
coming. Lady Maidstone, contrary to
expectations, received no dowry, but
an allowance-very liberal, il is
true--from her father. further com
plications resulting when her par
ents quarreled and ended by diycrc-
ing one another. Lord Maidstone
thereupon returned Kirby Hall to
his father, with the remark that
neither he nor his wife possessed the
means to restore its former giofies
to the grand old place.
1t dates from the TudorS, several
1I hsa,,
made by lingo Jones in the reign of
Charles /. 1t originally belonged to
the Earls of Stafford; was purchased
during the reign of Queen Elizabeth
by Sir Christopher Hatton of Holden
by. who is described in the deed of
Majesty's Guard. He died as her
lord high chancellor, and Kirby Hall
eventually passed to the Earls; of
Winchilsea through the marriage of
the Hon. Anne Hatton, daughter and
heiress of Christopher Viscount Fat
ton. to Daniel Finch, the seventh
Earl of Winchilsea and the second
Earl of Nottingham.
Considerable damage having Leen
done by fire to the mansion, the am-
poyerishment of the Earls of Win
chilsea prevented its restoration3 or
even it's maintenance. The roofs
were allowed to fall in; the windows
| robbed not only of their glass. but
even of their castings; the doors ire
| moved from their hinges; while ivy,
so picturesque and yet so promo1ive
of disintegration of buildings, was
allowed to have unchecked growth.
In short, the place was allowed to
fall into rack and ruin.
| Lord Winchilsea had still further
| country seat at Burley, on the hill.
| by a fire several years ago while 5oc-
cupied on lease by Capt. the Rt.
, Hon. Frederick Guest, NJ. r., former
| minister of the air. and by his Ameri-
can wife. Amy, daughter of Henry
Phipps of New York and Pittsburgh.
Burley on the Hill figures in the
history of England by MacaulaE, who
| relates that while the festivities were
| in progress there in honor of the
! marriage of Lady Mary Finch, daugh-
| ter of Lord Winchilsea. to George
| Saville, SON OF the Marquis of Hall
of the crown, was suddenly taken ill
/ in London, where he had been de-
! tanned by affairs of state.
Informed that his malady was NOR
| tai and his demise was imminent he
declined to allow any news theteof
| to be conveyed to his son. lest it
should mar the wedding rejoicements
at Burley on the Hill, and breathed
| his last in London while the mar
riage ceremony was being performed d
| in Rutlandshire.
Lord and Lady Maidstone have
three children--a boy of eleven and
two little girls. Lady Maidstone's IS
father makes his home in Paris. and
her mother, who since her divorce
has become the wife of Lieut.. Col.
| Brinsley Fitzgerald, resides in Lon
don The colonel won the Order of
| the Bath by services at the 'front.' in
France during. the great war, has a
| is a son of the late Sir Peter F'itz-
gerald of Valencia Island. off the
coast of Kerry. twentieth hereditary
| Knight OF kerry. one of the most
ancient and historic OF titles of the