MARRIAGE OF LORD MINTO'S DAUGHTER.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 437, 20 February 1909, Page 11

MARRIAGE OF LORD MINTO'S DAUGHTER.

-' The wedding of Captain Lord Charles Fitzmaurice, ;ist Dragoons, tho son of ,Lord Lansdowne, and Lady Violet Elliot, daughter of; Lord Minto, which' took , place' at: St, Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta, on January , 12, was an event of almost Imperial 'significance (save tho "Daily Express"). The bride, as the daughter of the. Governor-Gen-eral, , the.. personal representative of the King-Emperor of India, received by courtesy the lionours due to the • child ofa reignitig Sovereign. She was escorted from the Government House across the great Miiidan to the cathedral by the Governor-General's bodyguard, which represents the flower of India a cavalry. The marriage came just at the.<jnd_of the Christmas and,New,.Tear's holidays, when the Anglo-Indian portion of the. community were en fete, so there would

■bp .a.-great:gathering of ;Engli|h people. As .'.the Imperial Government -.-or-1 India. and the. Provinoial Government .of Bengal have then headquai^rsv'.at/this' .time/'of-: the/year ju Calcutta—the third largest city. in.- the' British Empire; with .its population of a million 'r-raa'iiy'feudatory_princes.and wealthy Zemindars are . in - residence at. the "mansions/ in and jaround the capital. The Imperialsignificance, of : ;tlie union: is. noteworthy." .The bridegroom's,'father,,, the Marquis of. Lansdowne, has 'Been Governor-General of Canada and India, ivhilo the .bride's father,: the; Earl of Miiito, assumed the latter Proconsulship immediately., on his retirement,, from Canada. Only last spring ; th'o bride's sister, Lady' Ruby Elliot; married Viscount •• Erring-, tony '"the eldest' • son'.ofthe Earl ! ; of f !or<jmerv ,As avfurfher. ,testim'ohy, of Imperial ,seryio) : rendered by .members of theso. families," it ;may.'- be-. mentioned • that: just one hundred "years ago Hugh Elliot, brother of- the; first: Earl of 'Minto;' was Governor- of the' Madras' Presidency.,, .Lord./'-Charles j Fit'zmauricoi through his mother and si sters, is related ■to the great -housek ; of Abercorn, . .'Bucfcleugh,' , Devonshire, Durham, Lichfield,' ZVlarlbor- ':' Watorford, and Wmterton, whilo the /bride's: mother, Lady MintO;' is'a member'of the famous Nqrtlium-'. Brian family of Grey; which ait* this -'moment: [provides England with her . Foreign . Minister: and Canada with her Governor-General. Lady Lansdowno; who wears tho Royal Order of, ■Victoria and Albert' and l :the.lmperial. Order of the' Crown of 'India,' was present. . It is the'first:tiine'..in history that the wife'of ah, .Indian Viceroy has returned to-the former .scones'of lier labours after: bidding them an official farewell'ori the steps' of Prinsep's Ghat. ,