MARRIAGES OF MARQUISES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 129, 1 June 1901, Page 1 (Supplement)

MARRIAGES OF MARQUISES.

A smart wedding' in Yorkshire last Tuesday was that of the Marquess of Exeter of Burghley House, near Stamford' and the Hon. Myra Rowena Sibell Orde-Powlett, only daughter of Lord-and Lady Bolton, of Bolton Hall, Wensley, Yorks. The Bishop of Kipon (Dr. Boyd Carpenter) had three other clergy to assist him in tying the knot. A feature of the bride's dress was the priceless old Brussels lace that composed her train and veil.

The early part of the honeymooa will be spent at Burghley House. It was an ancestor of the Marquess who was the original of Tennyson's "Lon3 o£ Burleigh," but the romance of real life, unlike that of the poem, ended happily. In 1790 Henry Cecil, pending the termination of successful divorce proceedings against his wife, and desirous of being loved not fop his rank but for himself alone, took a step frequent in fiction and the drama but rare in real life. He retired to Solas Common in Shropshire as John Jones, and was thought by) the rustics to be not an aristocrat but a highwayman in disguise. He selected as his spouse the comely] Sarah Hoggins, daughter of his landlord, a labourer. When two years later on' the death of his uncle, the Earl of Exeter, he succeeded to the title and estates, Sarah, instead of pining and dying as in Tennyson'sf poem, bore the unexpected exaltation,1 quite calmly, and after bearing her husband three children, died from normal causes. The widower, who was created a Marquess, married aa his third wife the Dowager Duchess of Hamilton.

Another Marquis, be of Headfort, was wedded last week to Miss Eosis Boote, the Gaiety actress, in the strictest secrecy at Saltwood, near Folkestone. For three weeks they, had been staying at the Hotel Metropole, Miss Boote being attended by a chaperon c. The wedding took places at 5.30 a.m. at Saltwood Registry. Office., before Mr John Andrew, registrar, and Mr R. Lonergan, Superintendent Registrar of the Elham district. The witnesses were F. Valder, a villager of Saltwood, and Miss Daisy Roche, of Daly's Theatre. The place of residence in both cases is given as the Hotel Metropole, Folksstone. The bridegroom describes himself as Geoffrey Thomas Taylour, "Fourth Marquis of Headfort, peer of the realm, Bachelor, 22 years, son of Thomas Taylour, third Marquis of Headfort (deceased)," and the brida is described as a spinster and 23, and in the column for "rank or profession" leaves the space blank. Her father's name is put down a» diaries Boote (deceased, of no occupation).