Evening star., 1923-07-21
BY THE MARaUIsE DE FoNTENoY

Lady Evelyn Herbert's impending
marriage to Capt. Brograve Beau
champ of the Ist Life Guards is of
nature to interest people on this
side of the water For the captain
is half American. His mother. Lady
Beauchamp, is the daughter of the
late Archibald Woods of Columbus,
Ohio, and Lady Evelyn is the only
daughter OF the late Earl CarnarVon
his devoted companion and associate
in all his epoch making Egyptian dis
coveries in the Valley of the Kings
last winter, and the heiresS not only
to large share of his own huge for
tune. but also to that of her mother.
the now widowed Lady Carnarvon. to
whom the late Alfred Rothschild left
the bulk of his colossal wealth.
The baronetcy of Capt. Beau
champs father, and to which he is
next in the line of succession. is of
modern creation, having been be-
slowed upon him in 1911. for his par
liamentary services as member Tor
Lowestoft, and as chairman during
many years for Lloyas. His early
years were spent in the royal navy
as was only natural, in view OF the
fact that his own father. Sir William
Beauchamp Proctor, OF whom he was a
Younger son, was q distinguished ad-
miral, who had seen much active
service under Nelson and others OF the
great naval commanders in England's 8
maritime wars in the early part of
the nineteenth century.
The admiral was followed in his
own much older baronetcy, which
dated from 1l45, by his Two grand
sons. Reginald and Horace, both of
whom were unfortunate in their do
nestle relations. For Sir Reginald
was compelled to divorce his WIFE
Lady Violet, only child OF the nfth
Earl of Roden, under the most senSa-
tional circumstances, Whlle MS
brother and successor, Col. Sir Horace
proctor, was a frequent visitor to
America and an intimate friend or
Gen. Leonard Wood, whom he closely
resembled, was obliged to divorce IN
1S15 his American wife, daughter OF
80 late II. NJ Leavitt of New York.
only a few weeks before he met with
his death in the fighting on the pen
insula of Gallipoli. She has since pc
come the wife of Col. Harry F'rancls
the person of the hero of the ballad
of "Wild Bill Darrell
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Col. Sir Horace Beauchamp's death
was one of the mysteries of the war
He commanded the 5th Norfolk Terri
torial Battalion in the fighting at
Suyla bay, on Gallipoli, on the l2th
of August. 1915. Among the subal-
terms of his regiment were two of
oF EnUlrd
Beauchamp. elder brother of the cap
tain who Is going to marry Lady
Evelyn Herbert, and Montagu Proctor
Reauchamp, who was next heir to the
senior Beauchamp baronetcy-
One entire company Of the regi-
ment was composed of picked men
In magnificent physical condition. all
Of whom were born and raised on the
Sandrigham estate and country home
of Edward VII and of King George.
Indeed, there was not one or them
who had not been personally known
to the members OF the royai fanny
since their earliest boyhood. On the
night of the 18th of August they
found themselves less strenuously
opposed by the Turks than the re-
mainder Of the brigade and kept
rushing on. driving the enemy before
them, and the last thing seen of them
was when, led by their officers. they
charged into the forest in which the
Turks had withdrawn.
Nothing more was seen or heard of
any of them. Not one of them ever
came back and the forest was never
retaken by the English. The gen
eralissimo. Sir Ian Hamilton, in his
official dispatch about the engage
ment, described the disappearance of
this entire battalion as very mys-
terious thing. Indeed it was not
cleared up until after the conclusion
of the armistice three years later,
when one Of the army chaplains en-
gagged in the registration of the
graves of those known to have fallen
in the fighting on the peninsula OF
Gallipoli. found during the course of