Evening star., 1923-08-14
American Concern Getting Share
OF Oil From Russian Baku Field

residing at the Hotel de Choiseul, n
the rue ST Honore in Paris
Lord Bateman. who is former off
Ger of the Royal Horse Guard and
served in Egypt forty years ago undcr
the late Field Marsha Lord WolseIey.
has no children, and the next heir
to his peerage and to his entailtd
estates, which cannot be alienated j.
his brother, the Hon. Charles Melville
Bateman- Handbury. some twenty
years his junior. still unmarried and
who was bankrupted. with liabilities
of over s2,000,00O. few years agr
after having squandered two large
fortunes, which he had inherited from
relatives, in stock exchange specula
tion, in unfortunate real estate deals.
and, above ALL in unsuccessful news
paper enterprises. The latter includ-
ed a couple of illustrated London SO
ciety organs. one entitled the Throne
and the other Madam.
1t is a curious fact that most Of the
members of the Charles Bateman-
Handbury class who have launched III
society journalism have made fail
ure thereof. They include the late
Lord Desart. elder brother of the
present earl. and who was renowned
for his homeliness and also as the
Edward. Then there was the Earl
of Rosslyn, who ran, for a time, a
society paper entitled Scottish Life
which he used to advertise by cor
recting the proofsheets in a particu-
larly conspicuous manner, seated in
chair in Hyde Park at the very
hour when the fashionable world
was won't. to foregather there lie
had as his associate the Lady Colin
Campbell who was the Wife of one
of the younger brothers of the late
Duke of Argyll and the heroine of an
immensely sensational divorce suit
she also ran. for time, society
paper of her own. She was a siste Il
of Neptune Blood. whose namel
was tolerably familiar to Baltimoreansl
through his marriage with Mrs. Willianll
Yates Perot, whom he had previously I
helped to abduct her little girl across
the Atlantic. He was descended from
that Col. Blood who, in Charles rs
reign. attempted to steal the crown
and crown Jewels from the Towe'
of London and who almost got away
with his plunder.
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One of the most extraordinary
members of Lord Bateman's famil!
was his aunt Charlotte. daughter o
the first Lord Bateman, who marrie
Maj. George Whyte Melville of tn
Coldstream Guards, who in the mid
Victorian era enjoyed great fam
as author of a number of very pop
ular novels dealing with the sporl
ing life of Great Britain. They ha
cne child. who married the late Nj
count Massereene and Ferrard Ma
Whyte- Melville broke his neck VIII.
breaking in newly purchasr
Irish hunter and his widow Their
upon married an American, Rev II
HigginSon.
But the holy man neglected to il
form her that he had another Wit
whom he left somewhere in III
United States. She was; IN c@urs
of time. brought TO light and h
by due process of English law.
sooner had old Mrs. Whyte Mclyi
become rid of the pertidious Amer
can parsSHn ,,,th than to the lid disma ~
notorious septuagenarian ex.-edito
and proprietor of the once fanou
Matrimonial News, with whom sh
lived in one of the finest houses Q
Upper Brook street. Mayfair. Ee
fore she died she became involved
legal proceedings with her daughttiE
the now widowed Viscountcs
Massereene. who was very, proud
her father and devoted to \
into her head to have the major
remains removed from TetburE
Church, where they had been en-
tombed at the time of his dennis
i'm 1878, to Wherstead churclEar#
near Ipswich. Lady MasseTten
would not hear of his tomb bein
disturbed and instituted sui
against her mother, Mrs. Duncan
! and won her case.