AN AMERICAN ROMANCE OF THE PEERAGE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1116, 3 July 1883, Page 3

AN AMERICAN ROMANCE OF THE PEERAGE.

We read in the Denver Times:—“The Pueblo papers announce that General Euffene Kenilworth Stimson has fallen heir to a large fortune by the death of an uncle in Scotland. It affords the Tribune pleasure to confirm the statement. By the demise of Edmund Bruce Wallace Kenilworth, seventh Lord Laurie, our competent State engineer compsinto possession of an estate valued at £350,000! It is not generally known, but General Stimson is a native of Scotland. He was the oldest son of a youngest son, and was born in Kenilworth Castle, 70 miles north ot Edinburgh. During the Macduff-Bosworth insurrection in 1858, he played such a conspicuous part as a leader of the clan Boswoith that he was subsequently compelled to flee to America, where he assumed the name of Stimson. His uncle Lord Laurie, was the intimate friend of Sir Walter Scott, and it was while a visitor at the former’s castle, Kenilworth, that Scott wrote his great novel of that name. Lord Laurie’s eldest daughter Annie Laurie, was the celebrated beauty whose charms have been immortalised in the most popular of Scottish ballads. One of her daughters, Miss Meg Macdonalbain, was in Denver last summer, visiting General Stimson’s family. A part of the estate which has suddenly fallen to General Stimson is the grand old Castle of Kenilworth, with its magnificent parks’ preserves, and rentals What the General intends to do with his newly-acquired fortune is not known, ft is probable that he will sail for Europe early in the spring, as a visit to Edinburgh is necessitated to claim the estate and transact the consequent business.” So much forour American contemporary. We regret to say that the commonplace compilers cf peerages refuse to recognise the existence of the peerage of Laurie, and that British gazeteers are ignorant of such a place as Kenilworth Castle, ‘ seventy miles north of Edinburgh.’ British annalists are equally silent as to the historic incidents of the ‘Macduff-Bosworth insurrection,’ and even the existence of a ‘ Clan Bosworth’ appears to be unknown on this side of the water. Altogether the narrative, with its wonderful and pretentious inaccuracy, is such stuff ‘ as dreams are made of,’ and very ridiculous dreams they are.

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