Show u nn I STRATTON LIMITED How It Brought About tho the Ruin of Lord Chesterfield L u M u u u u u u i Lord Chesterfield Chest who only last lust sum summer summer mer married Miss Enid Wilson daughter daugh ter tor of oC Mid Mis h Charles Wilson and cousin of ot Muriel Wilson WIlKOn has ha been lieen almost en entirely entirely n ruined by the failure of or a min mining minIng ing In project Indeed IlI ee he hI has been beell obliged 11 to give gle tip Cup and to otter offer for sale the beautiful house In Grosvenor Oar Gar Garden den which was one of ot the many valuable able wedding presents received by b La Lady Lady dy from her father tather at the time of her hur wedding To fo make muke mat etra worse orse Holme Lucy Lacy Lord Chester Chesterfields Melds fields country seat scat which was let on most advantageous Ous terms tenus and ami which is isa isit a it most expensive place to keep up Is III Isnow isnow now now on nn his hands The lease expired last summer and although n very liberal offer was made tor for Its renewal Lord Chesterfield who had no Idea of or the Impending change In his fortune declined to consider r It IL t The Tho gardens at Holme Lacy are tho the fluent finest In Eng England England land I and all the house home Is III rich itch In Grinling Gibbons wood stood carvings and Invaluable pictures which Ire c re however entailed and cannot be lie converted Into cash Lord Chesterfield IH In newly neatly fifty Otly years of ot o f age and an looks It although h he ho has hus been celebrated ns IS one are of the most handsome and men In society his hili comeliness boing undoubtedly undoubtedly edly Inherited front from Ills his mother l Ix x good looks In p n schoolboy are often otten a IL heritage of oC woe Of and It Is probe probable probable able o on n this tiuIs account that Lord Ches C ea suc at nt Eton ISton was not a n suc success succeSS cess teas He lie Was wan however very vcr popular at nt Oxford Lord ord Chesterfield Is no descendant of ot tho tite Karl Earl of ot the writer of ot the celebrated letters The latter was the tho fourth carl earl He lie left no legitimate Issue and und In order to find an nn heir to the peerage e It was Willi necessary to travel back to the descendant of ot a n younger Son on of or the first l of ot died In tho the seventeenth century Tha Thu fifth earl carl succeeded In 1773 1713 and lucid held the title lido for tor years leaving leasing a II son who held It for 01 lit The seventh earl carl died from typhoid t hoh fever caught at the same time and nt the tho same place nj IJ the attack which so mica nearly cost the tho Prince I lace of Wales his life Ho lIo left loft all the tho great greut estates which up UJ to that time hind had belonged to the earldom to u u u Lord Lard Carnarvon as the tho son non of ot his only sister sinter sl ter and that Is the Urn reason reason why tho the of ot Chesterfield Ch Is today one ono of ot the lice most Impoverished In the th peerage and nn why all tho the literary and artistic treasures tre of or the are now not In Iii the possession of oC tho the Earl arl of at Car Carnarvon narvon At tho the death of at this thU seventh Earl of Chesterfield who ho with so eo smelt regard for tor the family fam Ily name mUM had left lert all the estates away from the Lire title tille the time peerage barren harren of at nearly all nil Its posses possessions passed to a kinsman HO nio remote that he ice was IS said to be he about n a ten twentieth twentieth I cousin He lie In turn died childless and the earldom then devolved upon another remote kinsman of ot the family Sir Edwin V W Scudamore n a Herefordshire baronet whose eldest eon BOll eonis IB is the thu present Earl Eail of ot ChesterfieldS Chesterfield S I The Tho losses of ot Earl Chesterfield 1 1 In raining mining mu must t be very ery other otherwise otherwise otherwise wise Charles Wilson Nilson who ho Is devoted to his beautiful daughter Enid l would certainly have hae come conic to his rescue rescue In order to prevent the sale Hare of ot Lady Chesterfields beautiful house In Ores Oros venor onor Square It may bo do remembered that one of ot Lady sisters vat nS engaged ed to the Duke of Manches Manchester tel ter but hut Jilted him trim for to I the sake of ot a ayoung ayoung young oung Yorkshire of ot the name of at Fair Fairfax fax II ax Lord LorI Chesterfield lint has been treas treasurer treasurer over of ot tho royal 1011 household and cap lain tain of or the corps of ot nat at firms arms The heir to the eai nt at present pr Is la the sailor brother captain the Ron lIon Henry Stanhope anti and aIH one of his hla other othel tour four brothers Is U a n members of or orthe the old Childs batik bank an nn an nn clent dent Institution where all tho the clerks clerk said to rise automatically to be he partners Marquis de do Fontenoy In Washington Post |