People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 16, 20 April 1905, Page 10

People We Hear About

The engagement is announced of the Marquis of Bute to Augusta, the youngor daughter of Sir Henry Jk'lhngham, cf Castle Beihngham, Coiunty Louth. The Maiq.is was bom n\ 18X1. His prospective father-in-Liv is the lourth baronet of his line. He married, in ]>7 1, Lady Constance Noel, the daughter of the second Karl (.f Ci^.noboiojgh, who died in 1891, and secondly (in lo:J5) be man icd the Hon. Lclgarde Clifton. In his tvu Lei iLi) b on lluiny Eelluigli.uu bat in the House of Commons a.s one of the nominal Home Rulers. The Parnell movement displaced him, and he has not gone ba> \' to Westminster since. The Karl of Kcnmare, who died a few weeks ago in his MHh jear, is succeeded by his son, who has hitherto ken known as Viscount Casllerosse. The new peer is in bis 15th year, was formerly a lieutenant in the 4th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment, was an A.D.C. to the Governor of Victona, and is Hon. Colonel 4th Battalion Royal Munstor Fusiliers. He was appointed Master of the Horse to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in I'HH, and is a County Councillor for Killarney. In 1887 \ iscouiit Caotleros.se married the Hon. Eh/abeth Baring, daughter of the iirst Lord Re,\elstoke, and they have tlnee sons and two daughters. The Eail and Countess a: i? Catholic--Sir Antony MacDorne'l, on his appointment as Lie ilenanlt-Governor of the North-West Provinces of India, m 1895, was entertained to dinner by his friends and adnnrei sin London. Ihe toast of the guest of the evening w r as proposed by the late Lord Russell of Killovven, who said that during a v isit to 1 fie United States be met Ru-,sell Lowell, and the talk turned on the political hi Hi! cm c of the Iriph in America. ' I once asked a mend about to take a journey,' said Lowell, ' where he was going ' "To Ireland," was the reply. " I want to see the only country in the world which is not run by the Irish ' " Mr. Thomas St. John Gaffney, whose appointment to the I nitcd States Consul Generalship at Diesdcn has just been unofficially announced, is a native of Limerick City, where he wia.s born in 18G3. Mr. Gaflney, who was educated at Clongowes College, has been in New Yorksin c 1882. A lav ycr of the New York Bar, and a wc',l known literary man, he has, though a prominent ii ish- \merican politician, never, up till tne present time, l'dd olhce of any linl. Some few veais ago he married the widow of the late Mr Jay Humphries, a millionaire patent medicine manufacturer Mrs. Gaffney is well KnovMi m the I nited States as the President of the Women's Rights 'Asf-bciation, and is equally prominent in, matters looting to the general welfare of her sex. Mr. Hugh James O'Beirne, J.P , D L., the Secretary to the British Embassy at Paris since 1900, is an Irishman and a Catholic. He was born at Jamestown, Diuinsna, County Leitrim, on September 7, 1866, and was educated at Reaumont. and at Balliol College, Oxford. In IXI2 he was made Attache to the British Embassy at St. Petersburg, and he held the position of second secretary to the British Embassy ais Washington horn lXtto un { l \ 1818 It will thus be seen that Mr. O'Beirne, though quite a young man, has had a distinguished carcor, and theie can be little doubt that much higher honors are in store for him. He was practically in charge of the case for England before the International Commission on the North Sea incident, artd tne ability which he there manifested has been borne testimony to both by tne members of the Commission and by the press correspondents. r I he engagement of Princess Margaret of Connaught to the eldest son of the Crown Prince of Sweden and Norway recalls a^cry romantic family history. The young Prince is a "real-grandson of a Frenchman who ran away from home when he was a boy, and enlisted in tie marines. This was in 1780. Nine years later he was a sergeant The Revolution gave him his chance, and in 18(13 he vvps Marshal Bernadotte. Napoleon had no lo c for Bernadotte, and when he was elected King of Sweden, in succession to Charles XII., who had no he'is, he refused his consent to the arrangement. ' What!' said the Marshal. ' Will you have me greater tihan yourself by making me refuse a crown.' It was a 'bold stroke, and it succeeded, ana so the son of a country attorney at Pan became the Sovereign of one of the most interesting nations in Europe, which he ruled wisely and successfully until his death in 1844. The Bernadottcvs have lens; "-i nee been acknowledged as one of the legitimate Royal families nf Europe. It is certainly, however, remarkable fortune in the course of frnree generations to have reiaciticd the- height they have now attained in a matrimonial alliance with the family of the King of England.