ABOUT NOTABILITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 61, 11 March 1916, Page 14

ABOUT NOTABILITIES.

Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt was chosen president of the American Woman Suffrage Association at the recent annual meeting, succeeding Dr. Anna Howard Shaw. Mrs. Catt is already president of the International Association of Woman Suffrage.

The Duke of Argyll has received official intimation at Inverary Caetle that hie cousin, Lieutenant Ivan Campbell, only son of the late Lord George Campbell, and grandson of the Bth Duke of Argyll, has died of wounds received in action in Mesopotamia.

The future bride of the Kaiser's youngest son, Prince Joachim, will have to keep a tight hold of the family pursestrings. , Joachim's recklessness in money, matters is notorious. Even during his teens, while a student at Strassburg University, he incurred debts to the amount of £25,000, and had to be extricated from the clutches of .the moneylenders.

Lord Chelmaford, who has been appointed to succeed Lord Hardinge as Viceroy of India, is a son of the famous soldier, whom he succeeded as third baron in 1905. He once declared that four institutions bad chiefly helped him , as' a public man. These were Winchester School, Magdalen College, Oxford, the London School Board, and the London County Council.

Mr. D. A. Thomas is to take the title Lord Rhondda of Llanwern. Sir Alexander Henderson becomes Lord, Faringdon. Lord Mersey will be known in future as Viscount Mersey. Lord Charles Beresford has decided to take the title Lord Beresford of Metemmeh (the scene of one of hie early exploits) and Curraghmore. Mr. W. W. Actor proposes to take the title of Lord Astor of Hever Castle, in Kent.

It seems like an echo of the'old days of lively gossip to hear mention of the Princess Gyalma Odescalchi. She was Miss Dora'Labouchere, the daughter of Mr. Henry Labouchere, the late famous journalist and man of politics, and she inherited from her father the Villa Cristina, a beautifully situated hillside residence in Florence with splendid gardens and many spacious rooms. She has lent it to the Italian wounded and is personally looking after their comfort.

The death has occurred at Bristol, in her eighty-fifth year, of Mrs. Emily Crawford, who was formerly Paris correspondent of the "Daily News." For over thirty years Mrs. Crawford was a prominent figure in journalism. Mrs. Crawford's husband, to whom ehe was married in 1864, was correspondent of the "Daily News," and in their literary partnership the wife eventually became the more active member. After having assisted her husband in his journalistic duties for many years, Mrs. Crawford became, on his death, in 1885, the accredited representative of the "Daily Newa" in Parie.

Mr. Waldorf Aster's ejevation to the British peerage i< much discussed by the American newspapers. His renunciation of hie native land teas always regretted, ■for -the-name of "Astor" is a household word in New "York, and at one time he represented the United States Government in Italy. His son and heir is quite English, is member for Plymouth, and a governor of Guy's Hospital. His wife, however, is American, and. was one of the beautiful "Gibson" girls. Miss Pauline Actor, the peer's only daughter, married 'Captain Spender-Clay, ol the 2nd Life Guards. .».

Lord Granby, whose engagement to Mrs. Asquith's niece, Mies Kathleen Tennant, youngest sister of Mrs. Guy Charteris and Lady Colquhoun of Luss, was the Christmas surprise, is credited with cherishing the hope of one day being able to refurnish Haddon Hall and make once again the beautiful old Derbyshire mansion a family seat. The future Duke of Rutland has a wonderful affecr tion for Dorothy Vernon|s old home, and come time ago he arranged a suite of rooms- there as a residence for himself. To make the great mansion habitable again according to modern ideas * would be a costly work/

An interesting personality has passed away at Hove in Lady William Lennox. She was daughter-in-law to the Duchess of Richmond, who gave the historic ball on the eve of Quatre Bras to the Duke of Wellington and his officers at Brussels ofer a century ago. True,-»any years after this Duke and Duchess of Richmond and Gordon had both passed away, the former from a fox-bite in Canada, where he was Governor-General, the fourth of their seven sons, Lord William Pitt Lennox, married, as his third wife, the lady just dead; nevertheless, she could be described as a daughter-in-law of the "Iron Duke's" host and hostess on that historic night. Lady VVilllam Lennox was the daughter of a clergyman and a member of the ancient house of Molynejjx.

Family traditions die hard. Sir Herewald Wake, of Courteenhall, Northamptonshire, and also a considerable property owner at Waltham Cross, who ig succeeded as thirteenth baronet by his eldest son, Major Hereward Wake, of the Rifles," ie stated to have been descended "from Herewald Le Wac, son of Leofric, Lord of Bourne," but as a matter of fact there never was a "Hereward the Wake" outside Kingsley's romance, which is fictitious Lincolnshire history. True, the Wakes are undoubtedly a very ancient line, and they may descend from the Barons Wake, whose heires* conveyed the honour to the Plantagenets (the "Extinct Peerage" notes that from this old baronial family the Wakes, baronets, claim descent). The new baronet married in 1912 Miss Benson, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Benson.

Arriving at his Highland seat one Saturday evening, the late Lord Stratheona looked forward -to disposing of a number of pressing letters largely dealing with" hie various charities, so ac to catch-Monday morning's mail. On the Sunday morning, when he mentioned this intention to the secretary, the latter said: "Oh, but, Lord Strathcona, 1 am afraid I cannot do what you aelt. I have never worked on the Sabbath." For a moment Lord Strathcona seemed disconcerted. Then ho -said quietly: "Say no more About it. Go and take a walk up-the glen." The young man did not return until near nightfall. Weary and footeore, he ate a hearty cupper and retired to bed. , Promptly at midnight, when he was wrapped in the soundest slumber, he was aroused by a thunderous knock at hie door. He sprung out of bed, and encountered Lord Strathcria. at the door, taper in hand, and a winning smile on his face. "Come, Mr. Blank, the Sabbath ie now over, and we muet make haete with those letters, you know, so as to catch the morning mail." j