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By LA MARQUISE DE FONTENOY.

Lord Burghersh, a Lieutenant of the Royal British Navy, who has arrived in America, and is staying in New York, is the eldest son of the thirteenth Earl of Westmoreland, and of the latter's first wife, who died in 1910, and who was the sister of the Earl of Rosslyn, of the Dowager Duchess of Sutherland, and of Lady Angela Forbes. Lord Burghersh, who served throughout the war, is a bachelor, his engagement of five years ago to Miss Violet, only daughter of Sir Humphrey and Lady de Trafford, having been broken off, owing to religious differences, Lord Burghersh being a Protestant and Miss de Trafford a devout Roman Catholic. Lord Westmoreland married for the second time in 1916 the eldest daughter of the late Rev. John S. Geale. 
Lord Burghersh, while good looking, is far from rich, for his father is one of the least affluent members of the House of Lords, and during the proceedings in court in which he became involved during the lifetime of his first wife, he was compelled to admit that the joint income of the late Lady Westmoreland and of himself did not exceed $12,000 a year.
His impoverishment is due in the main to the terrible extravagance of his father, and to his own laudable determination to pay off his parental debts. 
He was compelled to sell his ancestral home, Apthorpe Hall, in Northamptonshire, to Leonard Brassey, for $1,500,000 and the treasures which it contained for almost as much more. But while the sale relieved him of certain heavy charges and expenses, it brought him little or no actual money, everything having been mortgaged up to the very hilt. It was a great wrench, letting Apthorpe go. 

Mansion Dates as Far Back as Henry III.
For it was a grand old place, the property embracing an area of 10,000 acres, portions of the mansion dating as far back as Henry III., while the newer part of the building belongs to the time of Queen Elizabeth. It was granted by Edward VI. to Sir Walter Mildmay, founder of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and passed into the very ancient Fane family, of which Lord Westmoreland is the chief through marriage, soon after the Virgin Queen's death.
Lord Westmoreland has four children by his first wife, a widowed daughter, whose husband, the eldest son and heir of the very rich Lord Barnard, gave his life for his country in the great war. The others are Lord Burghersh, his brother, John Fane, who is a naval cadet, and a younger daughter of the name of Lady Violet Fane.
Lord Westmoreland is the grandson of the eleventh Earl who achieved fame as a general, afterward as a diplomat and as a composer. So passionately fond was he of music that while Ambassador at Vienna he created a tremendous outcry in ultra-Protestant circles in England by playing the violoncello at an orchestral mass in St. Stephen's Cathedral. Moreover, when he went out riding or driving in the Prater he made a point of being always accompanied by his private secretary, whose duty it was to transcribe on reaching home the tunes and melodies which his chief had composed and hummed or whistled while on horseback or in the carriage.
It was as an attache of his embassy at Vienna that Grenville Murray was imprudent enough to portray him most amusingly as "the Earl of Fiddle-dedee" in a weekly paper then appearing in London, and, of course, this entailed the transfer and eventual removal from the diplomatic service of the brilliant Grenville, a fellow attache of Henry Labouchere, and who, it was generally understood, was one of the numerous natural sons of gay old Lord Palmerston, who died as Premier of Great Britain.

Duke Ran Away With a Banker's Daughter
It cannot be denied that the Earls of Westmoreland have sought by every means in their power to better the fortune. Thus, the great-grandfather of the present Lord--namely, the tenth Earl, finding his finances reduced to an extremely low ebb, determined to secure the hand of the greatest heiress of the day--that is to say, Sarah, only daughter of Robert Child, the great London banker.
Lord Westmoreland was dining one night at the banker's house, when he remarked to him, "If you were in love with a girl, Child, and her parents would not let you marry her, what would you do?"
"Do? Why run away with her, of course!" was the rash reply of the banker, who had no idea that the Earl had any matrimonial designs upon his daughter and heiress.
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When the eldest daughter of Lord Westmoreland grew up she came into possession of Osterly Park, of all her grandfather's great fortune, and of his bank, which passed out of her father's family when she married the fifth Lord Jersey. In fact, all the property, including Child's Bank, is to-day owned by the present Lord Jersey.
In conclusion I may mention that the present Lord Westmoreland was on one occasion the object of a very odd lawsuit in London, which might have conveyed the impression that the barter and sale of human beings still survived in Great Britain. For a Mr. De Beer, a lawyer, who used to make a practice of acting as peer broker to company promoters--that is to say, undertaking to secure [[tear in page]]nd furnish the services and names of [tear in page]]eers of the realm to figure as directors [[tear in page]]n the boards of joint stock companies--[[tear in page]]ed a company promoter of the name [[tear in page]] Gavin for the amount due to him for [[tear in page]]ving "sold" Lord Westmoreland to [[tear in page]]m for director in one of his companies, [[tear in page]]c courts decided in favor of the plain[[tear in page]]f, thus giving legal sanction to the [[tear in page]]rter and sale of peers of the realm.