ARISTOCRATIC SCANDALS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 939, 16 April 1880, Page 4

ARISTOCRATIC SCANDALS.

What a delightful scandal in high life allowing paragraph - quoted from oncof the he first of English “ society " journals—would furnish a text for, if the “true inwardness ” of tlm facts could be ma la public. The journal in question is reviewing the latest edition of the “ Snobs’ Bible ” Burke’s Peerage--and complains that “no mention is made of the divorce of Colonel Charles Norton, the heir-presumptive to the peerage of C'rantloy, from his wife ; of that lady’s subsequent marriage to Lord Grantley, the present holder of that peerage ; or of the birth of a daughter to his iordship within a day or two afte l- their . eilding. Yet these events took place early -sc November, and the preface to this eerage is dated Bth December, 1879." Great Guns! Wlut a bomnzi certain of our dailies would have found in this if Nob rlill, instead of the British Peerage had ..ossessed such an awkward family “ situation.” Talking of peerages, however, it seems that a new compiler of that sort of literature, one Foster, has arisen, who is likely to cause a sensation, from the fact that he—according to another “society” journal—“ discards the polite fictions current in genealogy, and seems to take a positive delight in dragging the skeleton out of the cupboard. A baronet who married on June sth, 1872, has the following comment attached to the birth of his son and heir ‘ Registered September 9th, 1872, as having been born on the preceding sth June ’ ; whilst the daughter of an eminent judge, who married a relation of the Duke of Devonshire, has the word daughter in inverted commas, to call attention to the fact that her father is described on another page as unmarried.” American paper.