Evening star., 1939-06-11

tLdl SOCIAL eleCl dS lIley struggled
party. where the King and Queen
20 agitated grew the feelings of the
wives of some members of the Con-
gress that their husbands, in order
to have domestic peace, promised
that their votes in any unpleasant
emergency that might arise in the
situation abroad would have to be
reckoned with.
Sir Ronald and Queen
Elizabeth Are Related.
Sir Ronald and Queen Elizabeth
are cousins-in-laW by marriage
There is feeling of kinship between
them as one of the Queens favorite
aunts, the late Lady Anne BoWeS-
Lyon, was a daughter of the 25th
Earl of Crawford while Sir Ronald
is son of the 26th earl and the 33d
Lord Lindsay. Lady Anne married
younger brother of the Queen S
father, the Earl of Strathmore. She
must have been a delightful person
given to dry Scotch humor and tart
remarks. 1t is said that Lady Anne
had many characteristics of the
Crawfords, and among them was
her pride of blood and the prowess
of her ancestors.
At the marriage of the Duke of
York to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
there was much said about the
royal duke marrying a commoner,
but Lady Anne made it known in
no gentle terms that she considered
that the House of Windsor was
honored by an intermarriage with
even an in-law of the Earls of
Crawford. She reminded the public
that so lofty was the grandeur of
the Lords of Lindsey in the 18th
century that when the clan the
fifth Earl of Crawford lord high
admiral and lord justiciary of Scot
land was created Duke of Montrose
by King James. he refrained from
assuming the title, considering that
he would be lowering his dignity
thereby-and his example has been
followed since by his successors.
Sir Ronald Knighted
In Order of the Bath.
Sir Ronald. P. c., G.. c.. M. G.,
K. c. B., C. V. O.. has been made
knight grand cross of the Order
OF the Bath. for his untiring ef-
forts to make the royal visit a sue
cess. He has as manfullv risked
his life to serve his sovereigns as
any OF his ancestors on the bloody
battlefields of Scotland. For love
OF King and country he faced the
popping cameras and parried
adroitly with the intimate question:
ing and sallies of the newsmen in
order to promote a better under
standing of the royal visit. Those
were the first invited conferences
with the press, but others of the
CraWford-Lindsav clan battled on
American ground when they took
part in the war for American indie
pendence. There was the dis
tinguished Lord Crawford who re-
ceived 13 bullets at the Battle of
Ticonderoga.
It's about this Lord Crawford that
the story is told that when he re-
turned to England he was intro
duced by George. III, to Benedict
Arnold, upon which he denounced
. Arnold as a traitor, declined to
shake hands with him, and. while
he accepted challenge to fight a
duel with Arnold, allowed him to
fire, but refrained from discharging
his own pistol, and started to leave
the field, when Arnold asked. "Why
don't you fire." Striding away Lord
Crawford flung back over his shoul-
der: AT you? No, sir, leave you
to the hangman."
Lady Lindsay Sportswoman
And Collector of Jade.
1t is perhaps not generally known
that Lady Lindsay was at one time
expert in handling a yacht and
raced her own yacht over the course
at Constantinople when her hus-
band was en- poste there as British
ambassador from 1924 to 1926. 1t
was there that she added to her
wonderful collection of jade, and
1t is said that the jade merchants
of Constantinople and famous
bazaars nearby still speak of her
dS lIlc COllIlOlSScul VI Jdut
that ever slipped coffee in their dark,
rug-strewn booths.
While she has sponsored gen.
erously charities here, she has taken
but little part in them-perhaps
owing to i'll health. But after the
World War an especially while in
Constantinople she did active work
in both the Y. w. c. A. and the Y.
M. C. A. In those days she drove
her own car over the seven hills of
Istanbul and their perilous cobbled
roads. At that time the Turkish
women were just beginning to
venture into society and to take up
sports, and Lady Lindsay was their
inspiration.
Just one more: We have gotten
into the second volume of Viscount
Esher's The Captains and Kings
Depart" and it is difficult to lay
1t down. So much is made clear by
him that was confusing, 1t is a