ITEMS OF SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17234, 9 August 1919, Page 4 (Supplement)

ITEMS OF SOCIAL NEWS.

Lord Berwick, a bachelor, who is 42 and has passed apple 16 years as attache and secretary at our Paris Embassy, has just become engaged to Edith Teresa, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs: William Stokes Hulton, of Venice. He comes of an old Shropshire familythe title is taken from the lordship of Berwick Maviston (the latter a corruption of Mal-voisin), in the parish of Atcham, a few miles from Shrewsbury.

At the American artists' beauty ball the golden apple for the moslt beautiful woman was awarded to Mies Edith , Hyde, daughter of Mr. Raymond Hyde, a landscape painter, and separated by divorce from her husband, Mr. Clarence A. Robbins. She resumed her maiden name and attended the beauty balsas Miss Hyde. She is a brunette, aged 22, five feet four inches in height, with expressive, soft, blue-grey eyes. She wore an Oriental gown of silver and lace.

Apparently ift. has now been definitely decided that Prince George, the youngest surviving son of the King and Queen, shall adopt the navy as his permanent career. The young prince will be 17 next December, and is just now completing his period of training at the senior division of the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth. Early next year he is to leave for a voyage upon, a training cruiser that wilt extend over about 12 months, and when he returns he will be gazetted to the rank of midshipman.

King-George and his Consort have prob--sSAj Come into closer, contact with their subjects than any Royal- couple in our history." It is evidently their settled policy to encourage their children to follow their example. It is said that Princess Mary is very much perturbed by the prospect of having to do the proposing herself should she fall in love with anyone not of Royal blood. That is what happened to Queen Victoria with Prince Albert, and Her Majesty found it distinctly embarrassing. The Princess laughingly tells her mother, "Mother, you'll have to do the proposing for me."

Captain George Cooper, elder of the two sons of Sir George and Lady Cooper, of Hureley Park, is an eligible of the first order, as far as fortune goes. He will inherit the bulk of the wealth of " Silent" Smith, .Chicago, whose heiress Lady Cooper is. He and his younger brothers are in the Dragoons, and are keen officers. Sir George Cooper is well known as a philanthropist, and has, in addition fco Hursley Park, near Winchester, the college, Elgin, his native shire, said 26, Grosvenor Square, His one daughter is the only member of the family married. Her husband is Captain Archibald Hanning Wilkie, K.R.R.

A son born to the Marquis andMarchioness of Granby is an event of importance. Lord Granbv is an only son, and there are no other heirs to the' dukedom in a direct line. The duke's only surviving half-brother, Lord Cecil Manners, is unmarried, and boys are rare in any branch of the family. Lady Granby, who early in the year had a serious illness, is a niece of Lord Glenconner, a sister of the Hon. Mrs. Guy Cbarteris and of Lady Golquhoun. The little heir will have the courtesy title either of Lord Manners of Haddon, under which his grandfather, the Duke of Rutland, was called to the House of Lords during his father's life-time, or the family sub-title of Lord Roos of Bel4V»ir. -* • - -»-* *5 , -. -■

Viscount and Viscountess Farquhar are grett favourites at Court, havinc proved lov i and devoted friends to the Kins and Queen, to Queen Alexandra, and th-e Princess Royal for many years. To' Lord and Lady Farquhar it fell to give the last great dinner and dance of the season of 914, which was attended by Their Majesties, and the Prince of Wales, with many members of the Roval family. Lord Farquhar was a lifelong friend of the late Duke of Fife, and has proved himself loyal and devoted to his widow and daughters. He is Lord Steward to the King, and Lady Farquhar on great State occasions acted as lady-in-waiting (unofficially) to the Princess Royal. It is therefore fitting that this well-known viscount and viscountess should begin the entertaining of Royalty on a great scale.

Lord Glanely, the owner of Grand Parade, began life as a clerk in a Cardiu shipping office. He. formed the company of which he is now the head, and is one of the wealthiest shipowners in Great Britain. ' Only a few 'days ago be decided to sell the old ships'owned by the Tatem Shipping Company and to replace them with new vessels, . Lord Glanely (Sir William Tatem) fie 51 years of age. He was made a baronet in 1916 and a peer in 1918. He has given largely to Welsh universities, the National Weish Museum, and the National Welsh Library. Before he became an ■ owner of racehorses Lord Glanely was a weii-known exhibitor at horse shows all over the country, and was a repeated winner of valuable prizes, mainly in hunting and harness classes. He began his career on the turf 15 years ago, but had never won a classic event until recently.

Devonshire House, which is "under offer" for sale, is one of the landmarks of Piccadilly. t \ Designed in 1735 by William Kent for William Cavendish, third Duke of Devonshire, the house is said to have cost £20,000. not taking into account the sum of £1000 presented" by the duke to the architect. The interior is well designed, and the broad marble staircase, with it« glass balustrade, was added by the sixth duke between the years 1846 and 1848. In addition to the spacious courtyard in front, there are large gardens at the back. On the site of Devonshire House in older days stood Berkeley House, which was built somewhere about 1655 by Sir John Berkeley on what was then called Hay Hill Farm, the grounds at that time covering Berkeley Square, Berkeley and Stratton Streets, and the present Lansdnwne House. Berkeley House came into the possession of the Csyendiah family before 1697, and the first Duke of Devonshire, one of the leaders of the revolution of 1688, died there in 1707. •Oueen Anne before she ascended the throne, lived, in this old house from 1692 to 1695. It was completely destroyed by fire on October 16. 1733.

Quite a surprise w«s the wedding of Lord Ribblesdale to Ms. J. J. Astor. That they were excellent friends? was a wellknown thing, but their marriage was un-dreamt-of. Lord Ribblesdale is" known in society as " the ancestor" or " the greatgrandfather," because he is like the portraits painted by the great masters of two centuries back. He is a thorough sportsman and a man whom everyone likes. His first wife was a sister of Mrs. Asquith ; she was, for a long period before her death in 1911, a great invalid. The two sons of this marriage gave their lives for King and country-one" in Africa, the other in the latest and greatest war. There were three daughters ; the youngest, the Hon. Mrs. Percy Wyndham,*was widowed in the war; the eldest is the wife of Sir Matthew Wilson ; and the second daughter is Lady Lovat. The new Lady Ribblesdale is an addition to the ranks of our American peeresses, and is picturesquely handsome enough to match the distinguished ancestor. She has lived over here for a loner time, and made very many friends. Her house in Grosvenor Square has been a centre of delightful, but unostentatious hospitality, and during the war she gave and worked generously and well for the common cause. The "wedding, therefore, although a surprise, was one of the plea-sa-ntest variety, and happiness is cordially wished to Lord and Lady Ribblesdale.