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Show TO MARRI A TITLE. MISS GOELET SAID TO BE ENGAGED TO LORD INGESTRE. Wealthiest of American Heiresses May Give Her Hand and Fortune to a British Earl Match Would Be Satisfactory Satis-factory to Society-Miss Society-Miss May Goelet, the wealthiest American heiress in her own right, who is spending the winter in London with her mother is reported, on good authority, to he engaged to Viscount Ingestre, the son and heir of the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, who is the premier Earl of the Realm, and as such takes precedence of all peers of the rank of earl in the British empire. Miss Goelet and young Lord Ingestre Inges-tre have been staying pX Wilton, near Salisbury, the country seat of the Earl and Countess of Pembroke, and not only have they been much in one another's, an-other's, company, but have likewise been photographed together. Lord Ingestre In-gestre is the most intimate friend of Lord Herbert, son of Lord Pembroke, whose coming of age has just been celebrated. Miss Goelet is regarded as almost one of the family at Wilton, being a niece of Mrs. Michael Herbert, whose husband is a younger brother of Lord Pembroke. A marriage between Lord Ingestre and Miss Goelet would give satisfaction satisfac-tion to London society, and could not in any sense be compared to those unions in which the American bride has brought all the fortune and the titled husband has nothing but his coronet, cor-onet, for Lord Ingestre's father is not only extremely wealthy through the inheritance of entailed property from his ancestors, but has likewise made several fortuutS -on his own account, as owner of the celebrated Brereton collieries, and also as the principal cab owner in London. His ancestral estates es-tates extend over about 50,000 acres, and his income from land alone is estimated es-timated at a quarter of a million dollars dol-lars a year. The present Countess of Shrewsbury was the heroine of a somewhat sensational sensa-tional elopement nearly a quarter of a century ago, special trains and steam yachts figuring in the affair, the companion com-panion of her flight bein? her present husband, the earl, whom she married I after her divorce from her first husband, hus-band, Miller Mundy. |