AN ARISTOCRATIC HUMBUG.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1878, 2 January 1885, Page 2

AN ARISTOCRATIC HUMBUG.

The Rev Ralph William Lyone' Tollomache-Tollemache, : rector of South Wythara, Lincolnshire, recently wrote the following extraordinary letter, which- was sent by the recipient to the ' Stamford Mercury' and was placarded on the walls of Carlisle during the Congress week

South Wytham Rectory,- Sept. 17. " All the villagers desirous of coining to my house approach it in a becoming and respectful manner—t. 6, through the bficksyay and to the kitchen door. There is ijot a farmer in tl)e place who ever has had, or would have, the impertinence to do otherwise. I

-desire that in future you will do the like/ 1 - -

E. W. L. Tollemache-Tollemache. . The Teacher of the Board School, ' SouthWytham. The 'Church Times' iopes that some personal eccentricity maybe pleaded by Mr Tollemache'a friends in mitigation of what would otherwise be inexcusable;" and it suggests that mental strain caused by having children named as his are, would be enough to account for any cerebral irritation. It seems that Mr Tollemache, who is a cadet of Lord Dysart's family, has been wedded twice. For the nine , children of his first marriage he was content with four or.4ve pines spjj. ;sbe offspring qf second alliance, however, are, according to " Foster's Peerage," provided for as follows; 1, Lyulph Ycjwallo Qdin Nestor Egbert Lyonel Toedmag Hugh Erchenwyne Saxon Esa Cromwell Orma Nevill Dysart Plantaganet; 2. Mabel Helmingham Ethel Huntingtower, Beatrice Blazzonberrie Evangeline Vise de Loui de Orellane Plantaganot Toedmag Saxon; 3. Lyonnesse Matilda Dora Ida Agnes Ernestine Curzon Poulet Wilbraliam Joyce Eugenie Bentley Saxonia Dysart Plantaganet;, 4, Lyona Decima Veronica ■ Eoyth Undine Cyssa Hyldo Pioweru Ada Phyra Ursula Ysabel Blanche Lelias Dysart Plantagenet -in all fiftynine, or an average of nearly' fifteen each. ■