Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-12-29 | Page 47 | Party Given Youngest British Peeress Little Baroness of 12 Years is Hostess

Party Given Youngest British Peeress t4& ' jg Little Baroness of 12 Years Is Hostess BARONESS CLIFTON, YOUNGEST PEERESS,? ANE) MOTHER. BAROITESS BEAUMONT. Baroness Beaumont, Another Youthful Aristocrat, Toasts .Winner of Title. Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON, Dec. 28. One of the happiest parties given in all Iondon on Christmas day was thoone at which little Baroness Petre, Ji! years old, was the hostoss. The affair was iu celebration of the fact that tho little girl has just won the title to the ancient barony of Purnistall and ia now a baroness in her own right. Her mother, thu Dowager Lady Petro, has been indefaLigablo in her ot-forts ot-forts to establish the rights of her small daughter. Tho guest of honor at this party was the youngest peeress in England, tho Baroness Clifton. Tho baroness, a fow months younger than Baroness Furm-stall, Furm-stall, is tho seventeenth of" her line, but that fact does not seem to render her less lively. Her nurse carried her to the coronation of the lato King Edward, Ed-ward, for it was her right to bo thero. Sho sat among her kin, tho Blighs. Her undo is tho earl of Darnlcy, and she is his heir presumptive. At tho coronation the baroness bohaved in the most ladylike lady-like manner, but appeared deeply interested inter-ested in the sparkling jewels and vivid uniforms. Baroness Beaumont congratulated her sister peeress, and drank her health in a sihall a very email glnss of diluted di-luted wino. Baroness Beaumont has reached the mature ago of 1G years; she was 2 years old when she succeeded to tho baronetcy, which had been in abeyance. Among her ancestors Baroness Baro-ness Beaumont numbers Johu He J Bricnnc, king of Jerusalem, bub that docs not affect her cheerfulness or amiability