Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-10
One Former British Cabinet Minister
Maintains a Home in United States

of Dowlain. He died in 1852, and 80
great was her force of character and
power of control that for several
years after her husbands death she
managed all of his huge iron and
steel interests until she abandoned
them to her eldest son, the first Lord
Wtmborne. on her marriage to
Charles Schneider, NJ. p. for Chelten-
ham, who shared her tastes for art
collection and for literature.
AS Lady Charlotte Schneider she
became famous for her art collec-
tions, many of which she either be-
slowed or bequeathed to the British
Museum and to the Victoria and AL
bert Museum in London. Among her
pictures was a wonderful portrait Of
that Charles Brandon, Duke of Suf-
folk, who plays the role Of the hero
of that now popular photoplay, w hen
Knighthood Was in Flower" Charles
Brandon was that picturesque knight
who accompanied Henry VIII to the
historic Field Of the Cloth of Gold in
1920 and who had five years previ-
ously married secretly in Paris that
nonarch's sister. Mary Tudor, widow
OF the French King Louis MI. In
fact. this portrait. acquired by the
late Lady Charlotte Schneider. Is one
of the finest pictures in existence of
that comely Duke of Suffolk who so
nearly lost his head by presuming to
wed, without the consent of King
Henry. the latter's favorite sister.
AS for Lady Charlotte Schreibers
grandson, Freddie Guest. he has had
a somewhat adventurous career and
has been everywhere. Very rich,
through his multimillionaire father.
in spite OF his having been a younger
son, he went to South Africa before
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near johannesburg at the time OF the
Jameson raid. He was afterward
with Kitchener as an officer of the
Camel Corps in the reconquest of the
Sudan and took part in the battle of
Omdurman and the capture of Khar
tum. He was a captain of the LIST
Life Guards in the South African
war of a quarter of a century ago,
and in the subsequent times of peace
did some soldering out in India and
also spent much of his time exploring
the interior of Africa and of Asia and
prospecting in Alaska
From 1912 to 1914 he was a member
of King Georges household as his
treasurer. but went to France at the
outbreak Of the great war on the
staff of the then generalissimo, Lord
Ypres. winning the Distinguished
Service Order, the Legion of Honor and
the military commando rship of the
Order of the British Empire. After a
brief spell at home, engaged in or
ganizing the national service depart
ment, he felt the need of some more
fighting. and accordingly joined Gen
Jan SHUTS in that arduous East AZ
rican campaign which ended in the
conquest of all Germany's vast terri
tory in that portion of the dark con-
tinent. After the peace he returned
home to become air minister in the
Lloyd George cabinet
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1.-the. well built, with a complex
ion which tells the story of an OPEN
air life. Freddie Guest, as every
body calls him, is devoted to every
form OF sport and a far more en-
thusiastic polo player than his elder
brother Lord Wimborne. Liked even
by his political adversaries, he was
most valuable asset to the Lloyd
George government. His brilliancy
and charm he undoubtedly inherits
from his wonderful mother, the
, dowager Lady Wimborne, who, as
Lady Cornelia Spencer Churchill.
has been far away the cleverest and
most brilliant and versatile of all
the gifted sisters of Lord Randolph
Churchill. Known in her day as
"the Deborah Of Dorset" she has
been a great power in politics and
at its height used to be described
as 1.-The Chieftaness" and as the "She
Who Must BE Obeyed" Of the inf1uen-
tial low church party in England.