The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 4, 1903, Page 45

i -.a.'.."" o<1 3 -, 1 - S e = mroRa T e &iss SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1903. @all, Passos] ELEVATION IN RANK OF FAIR WOMEN WHO HAVE MARRIED HEIRS TO GREAT NAMES WILL FURTHER AMERICANIZE BRITISH PEERAGE @ n5 ZovarY AHERICAN PrHo 76 DESTINGG Lady Deerhurst s Destined to Become the Countess of Coventry. ONDON, Oct. 2.—We hear a lot ebout A peeresses and ab. b 1ave married heirs to gr nd t there will be some- X dozen of them, who in the ary course of nature will have taken & big step shead he time another coronation in West er Abbey lines up the whole gorgeous assortment of peer- esses before the publ of the most Lady Deerhurst Halstead, Essex, who me the Countess >eerhurst was M a Danfels, aithough prior to her marriage she was ore frequently known as Miss Bonynge, the name she took as stepdaughter of h es B. Bonynge, the mining millfon- formerly of California and New Tk and now of Prince’s Gate, London. ess Christian, the King's sister, ig to Lady Deerhurst, and stood for her little girl, while the X s godfather to the Deerhurst tke & of Dynes Hall, is destined to be- ventry. Lady of Cc s Virgl & Dite of the money in the Deerhurst there was and is much love as ady Deerhurst, being one of the able as well as beautiful of s really adored by her husband. re Earl is cheerful, placld, pros- He is brother 10 the dashing oventry, who is one of the much ty beaux. Lady Deerhurst is the name of “Deerhurst,” ry title in the Coventry family, no hurry to change it for Cov- ry. But when she does her dignity as Countess will place her well to the @s a grande dame among American women in English soclety. SHE'LL BE BARONESS LEIGH. The Hon. Mrs. Dudley Leigh (Helen Forbes, daughter of M. M. Beckwith of New York), is another American woman who has a high title ahead of her. Mrs. Leigh will be Bar ss Leigh of Stone- igh Abbey, Ke rth, Warwickshire s lady has lived abroad many y has long since grown accustomed to 's state life; but her privileges, Deerhurst, will be greatly en- larged when the Hon. Dudley becomes a Baron. As it happens, the Hon. Roland Leigh, so long Sir Henry Campbell-Ban- fierman’s private secretary, also married n American—Mabel, daughter of General Gordon of Savannah, Ga. Thus, al- though her husband is only a younger brother of the Hon. Dudley Leigh, he Is not so very far removed from the title, and & second American woman might pos- £ibly some day be Baroness Leigh. Somewhat similar to this situation in the Leigh family is one which may pre- vail in Sir Willam Vernon Harcourt's if that vigorous old gentleman, on retire- ment from politics, does what he has often been invited to do, and enters the peerage, Lady Harcourt is an American. She was Mrs. Ives when Sir Will'am married her, and her father was John Lothrop Motley, the historlan. Lady Harcourt would be followed as peeress in the family by an- other American. her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Lewis Vernon Harcourt, formerly Miss Mary Ethel Burns or New York, daughter of the late Walter Burns, one of Plerpont Morgan's partners. ars And of course among the other notable “possibliities” of rises in the world are Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain and Miss Gladys Deacon. People who claim to know say that, while Chamberlain will not ever take a title for himself, he desires one for his wife, and that if she survives him she will be given the rank of peecress in her own right. As for Miss Gladys Deacon, should she and the great Duke of Norfolk, premier peer in England, ac- tually make a match of it—as rumor in- sistently says they will—Miss Deacon wiil step up ahead even of the Duchess of Devonshire and the Duchess of Marlbor- ough, the Duke of Norfolk having the highest hereditary rank of any man in the land outside of royalty and, incident- ally, being one of the richest of the peers. Miss Deacon has been of late the guest of the Duke and his sister, Lady vy Howard, at Arundel Castle in Sus- e of the greatest country seats In The Duke {s a Roman Catholic. by his former marriage His dled recentl HONORS AWAIT LADY CURZON. One is accustomed to think that the erstwhile Mary Victoria Leiter of Chicago has already gathered about the biggest title that is open to an American woman in England. As wife of the sub-King of India she is a sort of courtesy Queen of a far greater population than that of the United States and holds a temporary rank of which even the gentle little Duchess of Marlborough is envivus in a friendly way. But the glories of India are fleeting, and when Lord Curzon returns home from his extended term as Viceroy his wife would ordinarily have to step back down to the lowest rank of peeresses, for her brilljant husband is at present only a common or garden Baron. As the poet sings, however, I am Georze Nathaniel Curzonm, A most superfor person— and in consequence there is practically no doubt whatever that he will be re- warded for his work in India by a rise in the peerage, becoming a Viscount at the very least. Besldes this, when Lord Curzon's father dies the much older title of Baron Scarsdale will descend to Lady Curzon’s husband. ‘When Lady Curzon comes back to live in England she will ind something pleas- antly familiar” about her husbard’s .an- cestral home, for Kedleston Hall, Lord Scarsdale’s country seat, is built in Gre- cian style with many Corinthian columns, So also is Government House, Calcutta. Lord Curzon had the privilege of select- ing designs for that building and with sangfroid characteristic of him, chose his own old home in England for the pattern. One thing oitted from Government House is the church which is built into the side of Kedleston Hall. Lord Cur- zon's father, Baron Scarsdale, the Rev. Nathaniel Holden Curzon, is clergyman of the flock at Kedleston and has his own bouse for the vicarage, his own chapel Loy i oo, BECONE COUZE)?‘SOJ 6.9 CovEN7RY. | kS o THE . oW MFRIONESS J Jomrrzrn .. R AMERICAN GIRL WHO HAS BECOME A PEERESS, ANOTHER WHO WILL BE COUNTESS OF COVENTRY, AND COUNTRY SEAT OF ‘WHICH GLADYS DEACON MAY BE MISTRESS. AR — Miss Gladys Deacon May Be Proudest Peeress of All. L s for the church. His daughter-in-law, Lady Curzon, has become an ardent dev- otee in the Church of England. In com- pany with her little girls, Mary Irene and Cynthia Blanche. she gttends divine ser- vice in India with clock-like regulapity. MARCHIONESS OF DUFFERIN. Lady Dufferin, who was Miss Flora Da- vis of New York, has scarcely emerged from the Dufferin family mourning yet. Her social career is all before her. With a prestige indeed rare, the career is likely to be a brilliant one. There is no prettier American woman in England than the new Marquis of Dufferin’s wife—and the Marquis feels that way about it, too. Lord Dufferin, unlike his distinguished father, the late Lord Dufferin, is not exactly e clever, but he is charming. He met his wife when he was an attache to the Brit- ish Embassy in Paris, and until the re- cent death of Lord Dufferin the pair were known as Lord and Lady Clandeboye— that being one of the minor titles of the. great diplomat which he was at liberty to place at his son’s disposal. The Marquis is small, slight and clean-shaven. He has a hobby in his bicycle, and particularly enjoys riding about the most crowded streets of London. But books and things of that kind are not in his lordship’s line. It is sald that the late Queen, out of def- erence to Lord Dufferin, helped his boys into the army, else their bad examination marks would have kept them forever out. Lord and Lady Dufferin while in town COWIRY o TET of Foe 1 S ARINDEL, (RSILE DUAE S HRFOLE, American Launch Carries Olc; Glory to Front on Thames. ONDON, Oct. 3.—Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Koopman and Mrs. Koop- man’s brother, Mr. Hamburger of delphia and New York, are jubilant over the triumph of their American motor Jaunch Columbia. They tmported the little boat at the beginning of the summer, and it has been plying vigorously between London and the va- rious river towrs, and now at the close of the season it holds the prize for hav- Ing won more races than any other launch on the Thames, Day after day in im- promptu tests the Columbia, safling the American flag bravely to the breeze, has run past English-made boats. Mr. and Mrs. Koopman have the dis- tinction of owning the only American- built launch on the Thames River. They have an American to run it and have en- tertained dozens of American people on board this summer. The launch has a house of its own at Chelsea, and a favor- ite day trip has been the journmey from Chelsea to Maldenhead. The grace and speed of the Columbia have led several wealthy men who own estates along the Thames to make inquiries with a view to purchasing American boats next year. E. B. Koopman is brother to Augustus Koopman, the artist, whose portrait of Mrs. Alfred Stead (Elaine Hussey of In- dianapolis) has just been completed. The Augustus Koopmans have been on the Columbia a time or two, although Mr. Koopman has been away from his Chel- sea studio most of the summer in an old chateau near Paris. Mrs. Augustus Koop- man is a Bostonian, and with her children anticipates a visit to America before many months. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Koopman live in St. Johns Wood and entertain extensively among the American colonists. Mr. Koopman's business connections are tying him to London more firmly each year. Two remarkable little girls who may make the acquaintance of America next er are Hesper and Eva, daughters of hard Le As Le Galllenne's nne. health will necessitate his returning to the United States mn his wife and the two children may accompany temporarily their most ar- e in St. Johns Wood, London. The little Le Galllenne girls have al- ready shown signs of their father's indi- They are rarely beaut! chil- dren, and their recent experiences with fes have been the subject of ation to spoil them if they its full meaning. ages of § and 4 years the Misses Le Gal- lienne have been bridesmaids twice within a few weeks. They assisted at the mar- riage of Miss Suzanne Sheldon and Henry Alnley,” and at that of Miss Elizabeth Sheldon with Anthony Hope. Mrs. Le Gallienne is Danish and & woman of brilllant mind and unusual appearance. Her little daughter Eva inherits her ethereal type of both mind and body. Miss Hesper is more like her father. Mrs. Le Galllenne writes quite a Ilittle herself and corresponds from London for several Danish papers. As a hostess she is fa- mous, her little dinners In the St Johns Wood house being renowned for their simplicity and excellence. If, as she now expects, Mrs. Le Galllenne accompanies her husband to the United States, she will do much entertaining thare in the apartment she and Mr. Le Galllenne think of taking. Senator Perkins of California and Miss Perkins have arrived in London from tha Continent. They Hotel Metropole. they will g0 over to Ireland and thence to America. L o o e e e e S ] live in a charming house Lady Dufferin had had decorated to suit herself. It is in the new quarter about Cadogan square and the colorings are pink, white and yel- low. The little Ladies Dotis and Ursula Blackwood, aged 7 and 3, are much with their mother. She, by the way, is still very young, not having yet reached 0. A petite, fair-haired littie woman, she Is a marked contrast to her strong-minded sister-in-law, Lady Hermione Blackwood, the nurse, who took hospital training in order to have the care of her father dur- ing his last long illness. Lady Hermione divides her time now between nursing in the slums and staying with her mother in Ireland. The Dowager Lady Dufferin, who was once in the position Lady Cur- zon now holds in India, has given up nearly all her philanthropic work, even her practical interest In nursing, which ‘was once very strong. Canada and India both remember the Dowager Lady Duf- ferin in this connection. Lady Cheylesmore, who, until a very short while ago, was the Hon. Mrs. Her- bert Eaton, used to be Miss French of New York. A clever woman is Lady Cheylesmore, and although her social po- sition has been good ever since her com- ing to England, now that she is a Baron- ess her prestige is much greater. Being a ‘woman of rare tact, combined with ambi- tion, she will undoubtedly wield a strong social influence in England before she gets through with it. Lady Cheylesmore's children are much more than half Amer- ican, their father's mother having been the daughter of Thomas L. Harman of New Orleans. The home into possession of which Lady Cheylesmore has just en- tered is a wonderful old estate with ro- mantic associations. It was once owned by the Black Prince, then by the Earls of Warwick, the Duke of Northumber- land and the present Marquis of Hertford, father-in-law of the Pittsburg girl who recently became Lady Yarmouth. POSSIBLE PEERESSES. Here are the names of some other ‘American women, who are somewhere in line for a share of ancient titles within the next few years: Mrs. Alan Bempde-Johnstone (Antoin- ette Pinchot of New York), whose hus- band is a younger son of Lord Derwent and is now in the Darmstadt legation. The Hon. Mrs. Archibald Majoribanks (pronounced Marshbanks), whose h band is a younger som of Lord Tweed- mouth. Mrs. Majoribanks was Miss Eliz abeth Trimble Brown of Nashville, Tenn., granddaughter of the Judge James Trim- ble Brown, who was once United States Embassador to Russia. The Hon. Mrs. Venables-Vernon mar- ried Into the line of succession to Baron Vernon. She was Miss Louise Frost of St. Louls. The Hon. Mrs. Octavius Lambart mar- ried a brother of the present Earl Cavan Mrs. Lambart was Miss Hannah Sar Howard of Buffalo. The Hon. Mrs. Charles Lawrence, who was Miss Wiggin of New York, is mar- ried to a brother of Lord Lawrence. The Hon. Mrs. Bertrand Russell, who is married to & brother of the present Earl Camperdown. Mrs. Haldane-Duncan was Mrs. Blanchard of Boston. Her girl- hood home was in Andover, Mass., and her maiden name was Laura Dove. The Hon. Mrs. Willlam Carington (Ju- llet Warden) is an American. Her hus- band is intimately associated with King Edward's household. He is brother to the present Earl Carrington, whose name, oddly enough, has one more r than that of his brother. The Hon. Mrs. Bertrand Russell, who was Miss Alys Smith of Philadelphia, is the wife of Earl Russell's brother and heir. She will doubtless some day be Countess Russell. The Hon. Bertrand Russell is a lecturer at the University of Cambridge and Mrs. Russell spends much of her time in the college town. If she does become “my lady” a woman quite different in type from former Countesses of Russell will uphold the dignity of the house of Russell. The Hon. Mrs. Ber- trand Russell is a temperance worker and an ardent advocate of factory reforms. —_—— Rhodes Students at Oxford. LONDON, Oct. 3—The first batch of students selected for the Cecil Rhodes scholarships at Oxford—seven from South Africa and five from Germany—go In res- idence there this month. The American contingent will not be se- lected for another year. These scholars are to be distributed through the different colleges, and are selected as much for personal character- istics, which make them the centers of in- fluence, as for their attainments as schol- ars.