LORD STAMFORD'S WIVES.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1015, 30 March 1883, Page 4

LORD STAMFORD'S WIVES .

‘ The recent death of, Lord Stamford recalls the romances of his marriages. His first was with the pretty daughter of an inn-keeper near Cambridge, contracted 1 while he was a university man. One of his college mates; who stood up with him, said, “ I was a candidate for the bar, and my groom was a candidate for the bar-maid.” This first Lady Stamford, however, was sensible enough to live retiredly at their country seat. Not so, Kitty Cocks of London, who, on the death of number one, that happened six years after drawing hei* mafriroonial prize, became- Lady Stamford number two. She was bold, dashing and clever, 1 but unable to meet the requirements necessary for presentation at Court; She however, became the,rage with the club men, who always treated her as she demanded to be ,treated, with courtesy, easily; and ,informally, perhaps, at times, but with a courtesy that walked the line pf respect* Indeed, in time, ■ she won upon the flames so that Lord and Lady .Stamford; within the past i twenty-years, never wanted for the best of guests at their homes in town or city. Soon after their .marriage, Kitty, Lady Stamford, rented a box at the opera from Mitchell, the 7 great Bond street in opera privileges. With characteristic pluck she insisted on having, and for a round f sum obtained, the box adjoining the royal box.' For some time Queen Victoria did not attend, and meanwhile, as indeed always, Lady Stamford’s box l was thronged with noblemeriand “swells,” : This, and my lady’s, stylish , beauty,; attracted the aUehtiqh of "the Queen when she did 'attend,-arid df coarse the womanly, question sdori arose, “ Who is my fair neighbour ?” v It- was then learned that’ Lady Stariaford Had never teen presented, and, -of coarse, it was not on the palace ' cards that the Queen conld attend with my lady next-door. An equerry tried to arrange the dilemma with Mitchell, who was dUmbstricken, for he had all the best boxes and seats oil his hands, and if her Majesty withdrew herself, how could it be '** Her! Majesty’s Opera House ?” Mitchell went to myjDdrd, who laughed at him. So did my Lady, 1 who - assured him that she went td hear ihe opera and see'her friends, and cared not a rose diamond worth whether the Queen came or not. And come that winter the Queen would not, and Mitchell was nearly ruined. Bat the story got about, and my Lady became iri heir Set more popular than ever. And now, as/dorrager (and; indeed, as the; only Lady Stamford,) for the heir is a widower,; she becomes more popular than ever. —Boston Advertiser.