PEER AND POLICEMAN

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 154, 29 June 1912, Page 15

PEER AND POLICEMAN

GALLANT ATTEMPT AT RESCUE. Lord Dunsany and a policeman made a plucky attempt to save the life of a man who was drowning in the Serpentine, London. Herbert porter, a valet employed by the Earl of Morley, was boating in the Serpentine about three o'clock when his craft collided with another boat, occupied by Mr. Banner, of Shoe-lane, Fleet-btreet. Both boats sank, ,and ,the occupants were thrown in about 12ft of water. A boatman oamed Henry Holder leached Banner in tiTie to save him, but Porter sank and did not come up to the surface. While Holder was engaged in his work of rescue, Lord Dunsany and Pc'ice-constable Coates dashed into the wai ' p - Peer and policeman dived repeatedly in search of Porter,- and continued their efforts until they wero exhausted. They reached the bank only with difficulty, and the spectators were deeply impressed by their courageous conduct. Porter's body was recovered after about an hour. Lord Dunsany, who is the head of the Irish family of Plunkett, is thirty-four years of age. He served with the Coldstream Guards in the last South African war, and on returning to England wrote a one-act play called "The Glittering Gate," which was produced in 1910 by th© Irish National Theatre. Another work from his pen is "The Gcds of Pegana." Lord Dunsany married Lady Beatrice Villkrs, the youngest daughter of the Earl of Jeisey, about eight yeara ago.