Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-01-11 | Page 8 | Famous Women

0 0 t I FAMOUS WOMEN j I LADY ULAN CUE ARUNDEL Lady Blanche Arundel was the wife of bf Lord Arunde Arundel of ot Wardour Castle an and Is s celebrated for tor her heroic he he- he role defense of ot that castle in n Wiltshire Wiltshire Wilt Wilt- shire England Summoned to surrender surrender surrender sur sur- render the castle in to May 1643 by I Sir Edward Hungerford in command of the tho parliamentary forces at the head o of ot 1500 1600 she refused to I surrender despite the fact tact that tha thu castle garrison was Rae only twenty twenty- I fIve fighting men She bravely re resisted resisted re- re the on slaughters of the enemy her maid servants taking the place of the men as tell fell After a siege lasting six ale days however however however how how- I ever the brave brava noblewoman Was teas forced to tG give up the fight tight stipulating ing that the lives of her retainers 1 bo t o 0 spare spared Taken a prisoner with her two children to Shaftesbury I she died Bled in fn October 1649 and lies burled besides her husband at wardour Wardour Wardour War- War dour Castle Castie He lie had died three years reefs previously of wounds received I at the battle of Lansdowne 1