STUART PRINCE DEAD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11825, 30 November 1901, Page 7 (Supplement)

STUART PRINCE DEAD.

MELANCHOLY oj-.QUEL TO THE AMERICA CUP RACES. Phom New York comes news of an unpleasant sequel to the race for the America Cup, in the form of an announcement ; of the death of the Duke of Berwick. | The duke, who was ft guest of Si:'. 1. < Lipton on board the Erin, contracted a > cold 011 the last day of the Cup races, , ■which developed into influenza; but his condition, to Renter, had greatly improved, and the duke even entertained some .friends at dinner, but after they had left he complained of severe pains in the region of the heart, and before a doctor arrived he had died from heart failure. Don Carlos Maria Isabel Stuart FitzJames v Portocarrero Palafox, ninth Duke of Berwick, sixteenth Duque de Alba de Tonnes, Ducjue de I Avis., ft grandee of Spain, and a Peer of France, was the soil of the eighth Duke of Berwick and of Maria Franoisca de Hales Portocarrero Palafox v Kirkpatrick de Closeburn, Countess of Montijo (a sister of Eugenie Countess of Teba. who married the Emperor Napoleon 111.). He was born in Madrid in 1849. and succeeded to the family honours on the death of his father in 1881. Hie duke, who was a Senatoi oi Spain, was married to Maria del Rosario Falco y ,* Osorio. Countess of Siruela. He io succeeded by his son, Don Jacobo, who was born in 1873. The Dukes of Berwick trace their descent from James Duke of York, afterwards dames 11. of England, and Arabella Ohur hill, sister of the first Duke of Marlborough. James 11. created his son Duke of Berwick in 1687. the year previous to his flight, but the title has never been recognised by the British Crown. The first Duke of Berwick was a distinguished soldier, and fought at the Battle of the Boyne. lie was naturalised in France, and afterwards - nnandcd in Spain, by the victory of Almanza securing Valencia to Philip V. He was killed at the siege of I'hilipsburg in 1734.