Evening star., 1924-01-18
Lord Brooks. Who Offered
!: Aid to Pershing, Now An Earl

mere boy. But he finally concluded
that 1t would be doing him a bad
service. SO instead he set to work to
procure him a commission, with so
much success that when the young
ster, barely seventeen years old, land
ed at the Cape Of Good Hope he found
that he had been gazetted as a sec
ond lieutenant. the youngest officer
in the army, and appointed to the
stan OF the commanding general Of
the cavalry forces. then Sir John
French. now field marshal. the Earl
OF Ypres: He went through the cam
paign with much credit, was trans
fered to the 1st Life Guards, in
which crack regiment he served with
rank OF captain, was A. d. C. for
ner when high commissioner Of South
Africa, and being unable to secure
the position Of military attache to
either OF the belligerent armies in the
Manchurian war Of 1s04-1s05 OBJ
tained leave OF absence from his regi-
ment and accepted. with the permits
sion Of the war department, q COM
mission to act as special war corre-
spondent for. Reuters Agency In
Manehuria, doing SO well that at the
rated by both the Russian and Japa-
nese governments, while on his re-
turn to England King Edward be-
slowed upon him the Victorian order.
Then he Joined the staff Of Field Mar
shall Lord Kitchener in India, ac-
companied him as A. D. c. to Aus
tralia and to Japan. and In 1910, when
Kitchener. accepted the post of Brit
ish plenipotent1ary in Egypt, Lord
Brooke joined the STAN Of the inspec-
tor general, OF imperial forces, taking
more particular charge of the work
in Canada, where, in 1918, during the
maneuvers. he commanded the I'd
Cavalry Brigade.
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Under the circumstances It is only
natural that on the outbreak Of the
great war he should have been asso-
ciated in the command Of the various
Canadian contingents at the front
lwihere he served with, considerable
fdistinction, receiving two seriou.
, wounds which placed him hors de
combat for, a time and which re.
stricted him after his recovery to stat,
: duties. He was to have accompanied
Lord Kitchener, who held him I'm
. special favor. on that fatefuI voyage
TO Russia which came to amend
through the laundering of the war.
ship Berkshire OF the storm. beaten
coast OF the Orkney Islands with all
en- board. Something occurred at the
last minute to prevent his going.
Lord Warwick is married to the
very pretty Marjorie Eden, who ha.
Inherited much OF the comeliness os
Lady Eden, her mother, who was sc
celebrated for her beauty, which wa,
portrayed by Whistler In a marveiou,
; picture that became the subject OF 8
i bitter war between the artist ant
her husband, Sir William Eden Of
maryland. It may be- recalled thaj
when Lady Warwick's marriage tool
! piaco some fifteen years ago at st
/ Georges Church. Hanover square,, IL
London, the people OF Maryland, re.
Numbering that she was descended
from the lords OF Baltimore awh<
founded tho colony Of Maryland ant
from Sir Robert Eden the last Brit,
ish governor OF Maryland, presented
her with a. very magnificent piece .ol
T.. There is no connection between. the
present Lord Of Warwick and The
WAS, portrayed by Rulwsr Lytton q.
the "IAsts Of the .Baronsntin&theh his.
toric novel of that name, : and tn,
l,only associations between. them is tha
Eofs the title and the ownership, %,
Warwick Castle The. i'kfYfg maker.
had no son. but two daughters, one
of whom, Lady Ann Neville. became
the. consort OF King Richard m o,
England, surnamed tho huhchpAcK.
married the. royal Duke of Clarence
who was drowned in q butt Of Malm
seyE wine BY this marriage ther,
were two childFeh, q son and a .daliGh,
lter.. Tho son Inherited. through hii
fmother, his grandfatlfef,s earldoIn Of
warwick and died without issue, q
parliamentary attipdsr .of his earl