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Show BELLE BILTON (LADY CLANCARTY) IS DEAD DUBLIN. .Tan. 1 Lady Clancarty. who died at her husband's estate in the County Galway last night, was the first of the music hall beauties to marry into the peerage. When the Earl married Belle Bilton. she was the reigning stage beauty of London. Unfike many of the succeeding marriages mar-riages of a like character, that ot Lord Clancarty and Miss Bilton was a happy one. The one time music hall singer made the Earl a good wife. She settled set-tled down to a life of rustic peace among her husband's Irish tenants and won the hearts of the country gentry hv her splendid cross country riding. Cancer, which developed last February, Febru-ary, was the cause of death. |