Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-17
BY THE MARaUIsE DE FONTENoY.

To the long list OF American women
who become peeresses of the British
realm must now be added the daugh-
ter of the late Frederick Wiggin of
New York, first cousin Of James W..
Gerard. the wartime ambassador Of
the United States at Berlin. For her
husband, the Hon. Charles Napier
| Lawrence, since many years chair
! man Of the great London and North
western trunk railroad system of
England. has just been raised by
King George to the house of lords.
He is a younger brother of the pres
ent and second Lord Lawrence, who
was lord-in- waiting to Queen Vic
toria throughout the last six years
of her life and who was likewise at
! tached In similar capacity to the
household of King Edward. His
father, the first Lord Lawrence, was
raised to the peerage for his services
as viceroy of India after a long and
distinguished career in that great
dependency. Indeed, he won the
gratitude OF his country for the part
which he took in suppressing the
terrible instruction Of 1857, still
known in history as the Indian mu-
tiny, and in which his elder brother,
Gen. Sir Henry Lawrence, achieved
Tor himself a lasting name in British
history through his heroic defense Of
Lucknow against overwhelming odds.
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Another pecrage which has just
been created by King George Is that
which he has bestowed upon Lord
Aldenham's younger brother. the Hon.
Herbert Cokayne Gibbs, for his serv-
| ices as chairman of the public works
loan commission and as commits
sioner of income tax, services rem
dered to the nation without remuner-
alton. For. like his brother. Lord
Alderman. he is one Of the merchant
princes and great bankers of London
and partner in the old established
firm of Anthony Gibbs & Sons. which
has been in existence since the time
of the American war of independ-
| ence and which for the past hundred
years has been more largely inter
ested than any other English house
in the South American trade.
The name of the firm Of Gibbs is a
! synonym for everything that is high
principled and straight, in one word,
for commercial integrity in it's very
best sense. throughout South and
Central America and Australia: and,
as l pointed out some time ago in
these letters, when at the time of the
war in Manchuria the English gov
eminent awaited itself Of the good
Offices of the firm to purchase two fine
mo T-W a ant
their being acquired by the Russian
government to the disadvantage OF
Great Britain's ally. Japan. Herbert
Gibbs, as we'll as his elder brother
Alban, now Lord Alderman. but then
member of parliament for the city Of
London. considered il incumbent upon
themselves to resign their seats in
the houes of commons in Difference to
those ethics. according to which peo-
pie interested in government con-
tracts should not sit in the house of
commons.
Although the Alderman peerage is
of modern date. having been created
some eighteen years ago. yet the
was f1ourishing in Exeter in the reign
of Richard II. Moreover. the estate
of Pytt. still one of the country seats
of the Gibbs family. has been in their
possession since the days of Edward
vi. Sir Weary Gibbs was lord chief
justice of England under George III.
and no less than five generations of
the Gibbsts have been associated in
the control of the Bank Of England
either as directors or governors.
Through his mother. Herbert Gibbs,
the new peer. is one of the co-heirs
to the Viscounty of Cullen. now in
allegiance. and his brother. the present
Lord Alderman, is. through his wife.
now dead. a cousin of Arthur Balfour
and of Lord Salisbury. She was the
daughter of Lady Mildred Cecil. who
married the Right Hon. Alexander
James Beresford Hope; was sister,
both of the late Marquis of Salisbury
and of Arthur Balfour's mother, Lady
Blanche Balfour.
The Gibbs family may be said to be
indirectly connected with the reign
ing house. for Maj "Evie" Gibbs Of
the Coldstream Guards. whose large
fortune is derived from the firm. is
married to Lady Helena Cambridge.
daughter of Queen Mary's eldest
brother, now the Marquis of Cam
bridge. and formerly Duke 'Dollie"
of Teck.
Premier Mussolini has yielded to
popular sentiment in Rome in favor
of reserving the unrivaled site of
Monte Mario for national purposes,
and his minister of education has Of
ficially announced that Monte Mario
is to be devoted to a national me-
mortal to Dante; an influential COM