SOME ONLY SONS IN THE WAR.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXI, Issue 5010, 10 January 1900, Page 1

SOME ONLY SONS IN THE WAR.

Among the many who have re'atioDß either gone or going to the Cape (says a Society writer) none obtain more sympathy than the mothers who are parting with their only sons. Among those who have left lately or are leaving are the heirs to very great estates* Mr Dudley Marjosibanki, who is a lieutenant m the Royal Horse Guards, and goes out with th« composite regiment of Household Cavalry, is the only iton of Lord and Lady Tweedmouth ; and Lord Howard de Walden, who ia m the lObh Hussars, and only suooeeded to the title this month, is also an only son of his mother, and she is a widow. Captain Hobart, of the Grenadier Guards, who has already distinguished himself m Uganda, and who has Again been sent off, is a collateral m the Buckinghamshire family, while his mother is a sister of Lord Kesteven. Mr George West, the only son of Mr and Mrs Gorr.wallia West, is heir to Ruthiu O*stle and New^ande, and is m the Scots Guards ; and Mr Geoffrey Stewart, the only Bon of ihe late Sir Herbert and Lady Stewart, is a lieutenant m the Grenadier Guards ; while Mr B. We)W-Poley, wh< has quite lately joined the 3rd Battalion of the Grenadier Guards, is another only son. Captain Charles Sergison is the only son of the late Major Wardens Sergisor. Ha married a daughter of Lord Hude'ey, but has no eon, Lord Castlereagh, is anether only bod, who, it> was thought, might have gone to the Cape; but although he wtw keen to go it. was a matter of seniority • and not of sel< o tion, and his nome has therefore not been include A m the list