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Show Ancestral Home in English County of "Hero of Two Worlds" In the village of Sulgrave, Eng., in the heart of the Northamptonshire lanes, is si ill to be seen the manor house in which, until IGIMj. there lived the family of Laurence Washington, v. hose gf-at-great-grandson, finding his way to Virginia in ll.7. was to become the great-grandfather of Ceorge Washington, the first President of the United States. Carved in the corner of the stone lintel of this manor house is to be seen the Washiiron Stars and Stripes. It was this great descendant's stroke for liberty tfiat drew from the English Eng-lish statesman, Chatham, the wholehearted whole-hearted declaration : "If I were an American ns I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never, never, never." Chatham Chat-ham did not stand alone; with him being Pitt and Shelburne, all of whom saw that the threatened liberties of England could be saved in Washington's Washing-ton's birthday. Washington won for himself the title ti-tle of "The Hero of Two Worlds," ns a result of the victory of the British Brit-ish democrats who fought for more liberty under the rule of the king, made effective by Washington's successes. suc-cesses. The title was bestowed upon him by Thomas Carlyle, who also nicknamed nick-named him "Scipio Americanus and "Cromwell-Grandison," the latter title being given him because, like Crom-well, Crom-well, he fought to crush the pretense of a king. The house, In Northamptonshire, Englnnd, was built before the domes-day domes-day survey, and came into the possession posses-sion of the Washington family In 1564. In 1914 the mansion, home of the ancestors an-cestors of George Washington was bought by the British Peace Centenary Main Entrance to Old Sulgrave Manor House. committee in celebration of the one hundred years' peace between England Eng-land and America. A committee of the Sulgrave society met in' Manchester to raise an endowment fund for repairs and furniture. Toward this the Sulgrave Sul-grave Institute of America contributed $50,000 ; $25,000 was raised in London, and Manchester furnished the balance of $50,000. Among the subscriptions was $2,500from the Stars and Stripes Women's club in Manchester, collected as a memorial to the American soldiers sol-diers who died in the city. Detroit News. |