People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 31 August 1911, Page 1701

People We Hear About

Mr. Peter F. Collier, to whose memory a dispensary for the prevention of tuberculosis has been erected in Dublin and opened by the King, was an Irish- American pressman, and the founder of Collier's Weekly a family newspaper which attained in the United States so wide a popularity as to build up a big fortune for its owner.

The Earl of Denbigh, who is married to a sister of Lord Clifford of Chudleigh, Devon, recently entered on his 53rd year. He has been in command of the Honorable Artillery Company since 1893, and is vicechairman of the City of London Territorial Force Association and an aide-de-camp to the King. His Lordship went as special Envoy to Rome on the occasion of Pope Leo’s jubilee in 1902.

A marriage has been arranged between Viscount Gormanston and Eileen Alice, younger daughter of the late Lieutenant-General Sir William Butler and Lady Butler. Lord Gormanston is the premier viscount of the many viscounts of Ireland. His viscountcy, which dates from 1478, is over seventy years older than Lord Hereford’s (premier viscount of England), and nearly 150 years older than that of Lord Falkland, who is the premier viscount of Scotland, which has only two viscounts. The manor of Gormanston, which is in County Dublin, has been in the family for close on 550 years, but Gormanston Castle was practically rebuilt about a century ago. It is a very large square building, three storeys high, with embattled towers at the four corners. There are in it more than a hundred rooms, many of which have even yet not been finished off. Like the majority of his predecessors. Lord Gormanston bears the curious name of Jenico, and, like all his predecessors, he is a staunch Catholic. Born exactly thirty-two years ago, he succeeded his father, who had been Governor of Tasmania, in 1907.

Lord Braye, who was received into the Church in 1868, succeeded his mother in 1879 as fifth holder of a barony which has been twice in abeyance. On the death of the second baron, a distinguished soldier under three of the Tudors in 1557, the honor fell into abeyance among his sisters, and remained so until called 0 ? t1n 8 , 39, wlien ifc was revived for the only daughter * ° ir rnomas Cave, a descendant of the first baron. At her death the title again lapsed till 1879, when it 16 1 to the last surviving of her five daughters, who had married Mr. Wyatt-Edgell. Their third son is the present peer. Both his brothers predeceased him. The elder was killed at Ulundi just four months before he would have inherited the title. His sword is in the Biaye Chapel, Windsor, where lie the remains of Sir Reginald Bray, Prime Minister to Henry VII. The Lovat peerage, which dates back to 1458; and has had a rather chequered course, has again a direct heir through the birth of a 'son. Since 1887, when Lord Lovat succeeded his father in his sixteenth year the heir to the ancient Scottish barony was the Hon’ Hugh Joseph Fraser, his brother. Lady Lovat is the daughter of Lord Ribblesdale and the niece of Mrs. Asquith, the Prime Minister’s wife. While Lord Lovat is sixteenth baron of the Scottish creation he is third baron in the peerage of the United Kingdom, by right of which he sits in the House of Lords. The latter title was conferred on his grandfather in 1837, and in f' .L an Act of Parliament was passed removing attainder on the thirteenth baron (executed on Tower Hill as a Jacobite rebel in 1747), and thereby restoring him as fourteenth baron to the peerage of Scotland. °