The Earl and Countess of Dudley.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue XX, 15 November 1902, Page 1277

The Earl and Countess of Dudley.

The Earl of Dudley, the new Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and the Countess intend entertaining very largely at the Vice-regal Lodge and the Castle. They are vastly wealthy, and Lady Dudley is lieautiful, young, and charming, as everyone knows. But few people know what an extremely well-read, clever, woman she is, or what a wonderful musician. She has the most beautiful voice in the world, and a very highly-trained one. She is a daughter of Mrs Gurnev (now the wife of Colonel Jack Stracey. late of the Scots Guards, for so many years one of the most popular officers in that crack regiment) and of the late Mr Charles Gurney. The Countess, too. is a first-rate rider to hounds, and has already once or twice had short experiences of the depths and wonders of the “Meath” country (when paying a visit at the Vice-regal Lodge), so adored by the very best riders to hounds in Ireland. This last penchant of Lady Dudley’s is enough at once to make her popular in the sister isle, where hunting is the principal amusement in most counties (of all classes) during the long grey winters. The Co nress of Dudley is a sister of I adv Tronbridge. so well known as a cl“ver writer in many of the social papers of to-day. Lady Dudley was presented at Court and chaneroned in society before her marriage by Adeline Duchess of Bedford, who is a cousin of Mrs Charles Gurney, or. rather, of Mrs Jack Stracev.