The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 18, 1900, Page 10

10 : THE SUNDAY CALL. Relatives of the Queep apd Sops of Epglish Nobility Who Have Gop MAva®m counT GLEICHEN. NGLAND has sent the flower and pride of her nobllity to war. Al- most as one man the noble dukes, lords and earls have taken up arms against the Boers. They have gone from their castles and thelr country seats to endure the priva- tion and hardship of the Transvaal Young men just coming into their estates exnd honors have laid their pleasures aside MAVOR C.& - HARVE>. VISCOUNT CRrRICHTON « LORD E&. TA-BOT.. HoN . RALPH LORD OSBORNE] BEAUCLERY . LorD GEORGE HAMILTON - LT. GILBERT HAMILTON. MAJOR HOoN. Lorts EbpwARD CECI- — and have gone to the front, many to re- turn no more. Middie-aged men, who have taken up arms for their country be- fore beneath the burning sun of Egypt or on the torrid sands of the desert, have gone—left their wives and children— to gain new fame or death. Old men, who bave seen their day and bear the scars of England's gluttony, can go no more, but thejr sons have goge for them, “Holstein; H-ALLAVWRENCE:. ‘Would these men of wealth, of soelety, of noble blood, give up their pleasures and offer their lives for their country, asked the world? The scoffers answered no! But they were mistaken, for the members of the aristocracy were the first to reply to their country’s call—to take up arms against the Boer—to track the vast veldt and face the terrors of war in the country of their enemy. Her Royal Highness, the Queen of Engs land, is represented by one grandson' Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig- also by three of her second cousins, the Princes of Teck, and by her grand nephew, Count Gleichen, a major in the Grenadier Guards, and who, in the engagement at Modder River on Novem- ber 28 last, sustained severe which necessitated his retirement from the present campaign. The house of nobllity having the great- est number of its members concerned in the war is the family of the Duke of Aber- HoNn. GERALD MADOR THE Hora C.LAMBTON.. wounds , WARD .. P LORD CHARLE. CAVENDISH- BENTINC < -~ THE EARL QF GRANARD MIDSHIPM AN ROBERT HAMILTON- CHARLES FITZMAVRICE | CAPT. THE HoMN. HEDWORTH LAMBTON LORD ALGERNON GORDON-LENNOX. THEEARL OF WICKL.ONV. is Russell, is busying herself by knitting Tam o'Shanters and stockings for the sol- diers. Her six-vear-old grandson. son of Lord Ernest Hamilton, and her great- grandson Anson, son of the Hon. Frederick Anson, appeared some time ago in a series of tableaux given at Covent Garden, Lon- don, for the benefit of the officers’ wiv then in the Transvaal. The Dowager als has two sons and flve grandsons at the front. Among them is the Duke of Marl- borough. One fatality thus far has hap- CAPT. THE HaN. WL AMBTON- . OF TECK .. Ve - 4 T, THE EAs OF AIRLIE.. ¢orn, of the house of Hamlilton, for no less than twenty-two of its members are directly or indirectly connected with the operations at the front. The oldest of the family, the Dowager Duchess, who is now 88 years old, and whose family name ACHE SOoM.. pened to the family of Lord George Ham- ilton as the outcome of the war, and this was the death of Major C. B. Harvey of the Tenth Hussars, who was shot dead at Colesberg, while leading his men in a sortie on January 4, e VALENRTIA.. PRINCE FRANCI The peerage, up to date, has been for- tunate, inasmuch as only one peer has been killed; this was the Marquis of Win- chester. A number of the younger sons have been wounded. Among them are (he Hon. R. C. F. Carnegie, Lord Southesk’s son; the Hon. North Dalrymple-Hamilton, Lord Stairs’ son; the Hon. M. C. A Drummond, Lord Stratha brother: the Hon. Claud e son of Lord Ancaster, in the Drummond Perthshire; the Hon Lord St. Vincent's so Russel, Lord Ampthill’s r count heir; Acheson, Lord Gosford" the Hon E. H. and the Hon. R. Lyson, Lord Beau- champ's brothers: Lord C Caven- dish-Bentinck, the Duke rtland's brother; the Hon. o3 on, Lord Durha brother; Count Gl en, may be added. Many of the officers now in the Trans- vaal have seen service before, especially in Egyal. Among tke mest prominent of VisScounT Ay, THE EARL OF DUNDONALDG.. these is Lord Dundonald, who au one time commanded the Second Life Corps. Lord Airlie, who is in command of the Twelfth Lan- seen no little service be- Some other old-timers are Humphries de Trafford and |l fore. Sir Lord Norreys. All of the nobility not in the regular army seem to have enlisted in the Imperial Yeomanry. which, by the way under the direct patronage of the Prince of Wal Lord Chesham is in command, and it is quite in keeping with thir at he should be, for the very Y corp®, the Buckinghamshi s, have een under his personal command for a number of years and have risen to the position of crack regiment of the Yeomanry. Lord Valencia aids Lord est of th Chesham, and is especially well suited to campzign work, as he is a good judge of horses, particularly for campaign pur- poses. ord Lansdale is“also with the Yeomanry. and has done much to perfect the organization of the corps. Lord Albe- marle, known n all-around athlete very prominent i as well as Cambridge, Colville-Culross son of Lord Bury, lunteer mov The Du Lord Denbigh, I others inte T and prominent in the peerage are much movement. MAJOR M. STREATFEILD It was intended by Messrs. Gerald and George Paget to form a body of men for service In the Transvaal similar to Roose. velt's Rough Riders. but Lefore the proo Ject could be put into any shape most of the gentlemen who were eligible had al. read; enlisted ir. the Yeomanry as troop. ers. "1t canot be accurately stated just how many of the English aristocracy have enlisted in the war, Perhaps some conclusion may be drawn from the faet that a (hird of the membership of the Bachelor Club, whose personnel is man up mostly of the young unmarried nopi!. ity have enlisted in the army. Lord Win. chester Is the only me u Who has been killed. " ¢ the club The poor old Duke of Richmo, §2 years old, has been nearly ber:vadc‘mn:; count of the war. His son, Lord March, I8 in command of the Third Battalign of the Royal Sussex Regiment, while angther son, Lord Algernon Lenox, enlisted wiih the volunteers. Lord Roberts, or “Bobs,"” has the Duke of Richmond's helr pre- e to the War him at the front. Mr. Ber- nox and Mr. Esme Gor- e Duke, are . Some of the y awaiting word the s others, who from thei Romney, ce the W rome of Ne a oh books of sed with the of “Rich- chill had the twice in a late body of mind, travel THE EARL. OF "WARN/IC K ey THE MARQUI S OF LONSDAL E went outside the British 1. » the whe among the It is i amount ugh the of the British army t part of the nc o know duties Lately t sition obta George Wyn of War action it ind heir i 1 and the young Duke ¢ Roxburgh, both mnd the dreams of Lord and Iveagh's sc of from the Cadogan, who Lcrd Cadogan ha also a dau er, Lady Sophie Scoti. wha CAPRT. . C. LASCcELLES, PRINCE CHR.\/ICT. OF SCHLESWIG- Hmsv=\5 o AR o as a nurse is caring for the woundca hospital at Natal. The nobility have not always chosen the swell dandy regiments in which to en list.. A great many have entered the i regular forces, which, in spite of the! newness, have done commendable s. e The Hon. H. D. Marsham, who belonged to the Bechuanaland police, was killed at Mafeking. Two men of note were killed at Spion Kop during the recent engage- ments there. One was the Hon. J. H. L. Petre, the elder brother of Lord Petre, and the other unfortunate was the son of Lord Trevor, the Hon. N. W. Hill. Both of the young men were in Thorneycro Mounted Infantry. Lord Peei's George, who also belonged to one o iregular regiments, was lately arreste a spy by his own countrymen, who not know him. Later at the instan . some of his friends he was rele i Young Peel's sister, the Hon. Mrs Gold- man, IS acting in the capacity of nurse with the British forces, ’ na )