A CRICKET ROMANCE

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 141, 18 June 1927, Page 20

A CRICKET ROMANCE

SfORY OP THE ..LATE LOKD

DABNLEY.

,JReceritly tho Earl «t Darnley died a); his.; home in Kent, at the ago of 68. He died in his sleep, and his passing caused English newspapers to grow reminiscent. According to the "Daily Chronicle," the late Jjo'rd Darnloy waß the eighth holder of the earldom, which is in/thp Peerage of Ireland, created in -1725, and an Irish Ileprcßentative Peer. ijHe' hi* brother in the title 'in lpOOy'and was also heir presumptive tp" his niece, a peeress in herowi. right in tho Barpny of Leighton Bromswold. the Hon. Iyo Bligh ho was a great «riQketcr .in his day. He played for r43tpiij', for: '!tbe Capibridge. eleven for ipur years, and for Kent |1877 to 1883). He tpok a'team to Australia, and was ! iihe flrjt Englishman to bring back the <«as,hej." Tjiii visit ?'i)pwn Under" also lod to si love romance, which ended in hie marriagfi to • Darnley 5 hexself' au Ausiraliajij '">' ' I vQne day a bali froni %.oft'orth, "the j de?ijpii.ljp\yler," hit Ivo Bligh on tho hand and «u_t it so badly that he had to walji off. A young girl in the enclosure proffered her Jjandkerflhief to bind up the wound. When the cricketer returned to England, he brought her back with him as his bride.

He also'brought .back an earthenware urn filled with hashes" which was purchased 'ftnd presented 'to him by some :^fe}]b.ourne. wbrnen as a token of the vicjory pf $he -PogJish team. Ever since the urn has been kept by the earl at Cobham as a Bouvenir.

Lord parnley is survived by his widpw, ifcwp sons (the elder of whom, Lord Clifton of Bathmore, succeeds him in the title) and Qne daughter.