AN AMERICAN DESCENDANT OF GEORGE IV

Evening Star, Issue 12764, 17 March 1906, Page 11

AN AMERICAN DESCENDANT OF GEORGE IV

By giving permission to have examined l the papers left by Mrs • Fitzherbext, King Edward of England' has bronght to laght the evidence that may prqve an. American to be the rightful possessor of England's crown. ■-.The man who has this claim does not intend to press it, His name is James L. Ord. Hie lives at 201 Osgood street, Chicago, and ss art assistant to the superintendent of construction for the > Western Union Telegraph Company. Ord claims to be a direct descendant of King George IV. of England, .bv Mrs Maria Anne bmythe Pitzherbert. Although questioned by some, there s?ems to be little doubt that George had issue by Mrs Fiteherhert, nor that Ord comes ki direct line from this union. But it always has been disputed that George had married the famous beauty of the eloping days of the eighteenth century and early days of the nineteenth. The son of Mrs Fitaherbert, the ancestor of Jameif L, Ord, would have been, the eldest son of George IV. had the legality of the marriage been admitted. He would have succeeded George IV., instead of William, and his line would now be on the throne. James L. Ord intends to make a battle, not, of course, for the crown, but for the share of the faSnous fortune of George IV. that should rightfully'be his. Th ; s, it is said, is in esreers of 25,b00,000d01. This money has been in dispute for seventy years. Ord claims to have convincing document© to prove his title, and they supplement the ones that have just been made public by the act "of England's King in bringing to light those papers which Mrs Pitzherbert left to establish her good name. Ord's papers shew that his ancestor was brought to the United States during the latter part of the eighteenth century by one James Ord, a friend of Lady Pitzherbert. The son of Mrs FitzheTbext and of George IV. took the name of his guardian, Mr Ord, in order to keep the royalty of his birth secret. When, Ord died he left a will which showed that the youngster was the son- of England's King. The prince (to give him his title) was educated in Georgetown College, which he entered in 1800. Before the boy left Georgetown, James Ord. his sooalkd uncle, died, leaving a will dated October 11, 1801, now on file in the City Hall in Washington, leaving most of his estate "to my beloved nephew, James Ord." If James OTd 1 was a son of George IV., then his eldest sun, the late Majorgeneral E. 0. C. Ord, became the rightful heir to the English Throne at his father's death. General Ord was one of the prominent figures of the Civil War. He belonged to the army of Tennessee from May, 1862, but a wound received at Corinth kept liim from serving in the Rarjier part, of the Vicksburg campaign. When Mcdellan was relieved, June 18, 1863, Ord was given his command, the Thirteenth Army Corps.