Show MISS iss ASTOR R ilAY illy CAPTURE A DUKE New York Herald HeraldA A lady I mat mut vo vho is Ia ej fairly well Informed said eald sa d that much talk of or a marriage between the Duke of Roxburghe and Miss Astor The Jibe duke is Just 28 25 years Yf rs old ol and has baa recently returned serving with Ve he army in Attics Africa as a I lieutenant in the tile Royal floyal Hone Betas Guard G Miss Ml e Astor Antor the Ehe IS fi ot c m iII On of the Ute prettiest and niost annC C I young you g ladles in solely so se and nd the marriage would be an eminently fitting one end nd probably to t t Item Waldorf aldort Ast r The line young Duke of R e Is 1 now in his year is one ne of the nie owners of great titles and estates have been winning theIr spurs urs by U ser Mr service service vice Ice in South Africa He succeeded in to the ducal title with its diary honors of Marquis of and Cassford Earl Ban of Roxburghe Earl of Kelso Viscount Broxmouth and Baton Haron Ker K er oh oil the death of his father tattler the seventh duke His mother with her family of two to I younger son suns and find three unmarried daughters the eldest married daughter being Ing Lady Margaret still resides with the duke at Floors ors Fk Castle Kelso Keino In on the Scottish I border where the Kers have long seen been a power Both the present Duchess of Roxburghe and the dukes grandmother er cc were long Jong intimately associated with the court In personal attendance upon the rate late Queen Victoria as ladles ladies of the die bedchamber while the dukes mother wes was in addition mistress s of the robes rol from frem 1880 1580 to 1886 1385 and was an especial friend of the queen Through his hiB mother Lady Anne who was aa the fourth daughter of the seventh duke of Marl borough and sister of Lord Lon Randolph Churchill the duke of Is a first cousin of the present pre t e duke of Marlborough and nd in this way way has bas al ready read close connections with ith American families Rumor of a probable engagement of w the e duke of Roxburghe with th An n Amer ican lean belle bene In English society got abroad some SOlOS two years ago and If the present report should be confirmed one mere alliance will ho b added to the Met list of marriages of note which are said to be nearly approach ing in number numb r Tile The dukes duks family name is K due ue to the un unIon of f two families in 1666 when the descent passed into the female line through an heiress of the Kers That Toot family had received the royal barony of Auld Acid Roxburghe as early earl a ak J 2 A Sir Robert Ker James Jam s VI Vt of lf Scotland into Eng land and some years later was created I earl of Roxburghe The dukedom was wasI I conferred nearly near y a hundred years later on the fifth earl who ho was a secretary of state and ad Knight of the Garter With the fourth duke the direct male line became extinct and several claim ants came forward in virtue of their descent de ent from branches In previous gen The house hous of lords finally decided in 1812 In favor of Sir James rames the 2 of the Present duke In addition to ha o the seat at Floors castle the duke has an ancestral estate at Broxmouth park Dunbar Haddington shire Miss Astor the second child of or VII WIl Ham Waldorf Astor was for tor several years brought brou ht up In retirement with her governess governess and companions at Cliveden Since her debut she has hs been en made madei i t much of In English society And ad round I Her name ha has hall centered much gossip of Q an Impending engagement with Hh this 18 or that man of title |