Evening star., 1924-02-08
Breach of Etiquette Seen
In Embassy Flag Incident

about which nothing was known to
the public until several months after
1t had taken place. 1t was celebrated
aoT @e oce sIs Ionaon as dss aad ahe e
Lord Foley's age WAS recorded as
twenty-four and that of his bride as
twenty-seven, her name being given
as "Minoru Gfeenstone. usually
and her address as the Curzon Hotel,
in the West End of London.
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Lord Foley since the persecution
Of his wife has engaged the attention
Of the police, has amplified the infor-
nation contained at the Marylebone
register office to the extent OF as
serting that Lady Foley is the daugh-
ter of a South African mine owner Of
the name of Harry Greensboro and in
sists that he had been acquainted
with Lady Foley for a considerable
time before he had married her and
that he knew all about her family.
also that since their marriage they
had paid prolonged visit TO her
friends and relatives in South Africa
and that the insinuations contained
in the anonymous letter that he had
been trapped into q matrimonial al
lance which he should never have
made were without the slishtes.
foundation.
1t is only a few months ago that
ket for sale his country seat in Sur
rey known as Roxley Lodge, near
Esher,- which had been in the possess
sion Of his family for generations.
1t was sold, with all its contents, in.
cluding a number of old masters,
some magnificent old china and an
extremely valuable library, the chief
treasures of which were four Shake
speare folios of great age and rarity.
The impression gained ground that
U sserice. because a'S his Wife efen had az no:
found the social atmosphere of the
county very congenial. Lord Foley
succeeded his second cousin In the
family honors, in 1918, just after
having been invalided home from the
front in France, where he spent two
years as lieutenant of the Royal Fly
Ing Corps.
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His father was Henry St. John
Foley of the foreign office and his
mother, Lady Nary Foley, was the
youngest daughter Of the third Earl
of Normanton. The Foleys have al
ways been noted for their good looks.
which are inherited, in all probabil-
ity, more from the wife Of the third
Lord Foley, a daughter of the second
Duke Of Leinster. She and her sister,
Lady Olivia Fitzgerald, who married
the eighth Lord Kinnajrd, were such
superb beauties that when as girls
they. used to visit the theater at Dub
lin the whole house was wont to rise
in enthusiastic applause OF their
lovelinesS.
The founder Of the Foley family
was a well-to-do iron master Of
Stourbridge, in Worcestershire, and
acquired in the latter half of the sew
enteenth century a very large for
tune through his discovery Of the
continental methods of treating iron
and producing steel. He did this at
the risk of his life. Being an ad-
mirable violinist, he became for the
time being q wandering minstrel and
! tramped ragged and barefoot from
| town to town In Belgium, to Ger.
Spain, endeavorins to find out all the
| secrets of the production of iron and
steel. At one time he thought he had
/ accomplished his ends, and returned
home only to find that somethins
was missing, SO he went again abroad
on a tramp with. hts fiddle, much to
the dismay Of the foreign ironmasters
| and of their guilds. In fact, after his
| return to England several attempts
lwere made by their emissaries 10
| murder him and to wreck his works
at Stourbridge, as they realized that
| his acquisition Of their 80 jealousy
| guarded business was destined to cost
/. them the English, Scotch and Irish
'trade, but also to bring into the field
a very dangerous rival in the conf
| tinental market. He figures in tho
| Industrial history of England and in
the annals Of his family as Fiddler
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