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“IT'S HAVING TROUBLE WITH THE CUSTOMS"
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1949.
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How the Harewoods
to riches and power
The :
1,000 years of gathering land
miser who gave them the last millions when the tide was turning : Father-son contrast: One marries a King's daughter,
the other to wed a working girl from Vienna
by
...JOHN L. GARBUTT
"HEN Marion Stein,
daughter of a music
publisher
from
Vienna, becomes the Coun- tess of Harewood some time next autumn, she will be marrying into B family which for nearly a thousand years has had its roots in the land of England.
The line of Lascelles has Krown up with England. From A manor in North Yorkshire its one of the acres have spread
great land haldings of England.
There was a Lascelles in York- shine at the time of the Wars of the Roses, there was a Lascelles there in the reign of Elizabeth, there was even a "Beau" Las. -celles in the entourage of the
Prince Regent.
Like feudal princes they reign- ed through the centuries, till at 'the height of their power and in- fluence in the early years of the twentieth century they esimated to control nearly 100.. 000-neres-in-the-United-King-
dom.
were
Yel in the last 30 years, ben ense of taxation and death duties, much of what had taken
r years to build has gone,
a truly tremen-
daus addition
to the nrchi-
tecture of the
lund.
'Lucky Lascelles
But, what-
ever their --political-for-
juncs, the
Harewood House
THE MISSUS AT HOME TALKS OF
Salt-horse Kerans
(the Amethyst man)
London, Aug. 1.
HE Man whose week-
Tund's work was to bring
the frigate Amethyst down the Yangtee to safety is what the Navy calls a "salt horse."
"John could have man- nged the navigation all right," his wife, Mra Stephanie. Kerans, sald. "He's not a specialist in anything. He's able to have a shot at anything that comes along.”
The last "thing to come along" was the command of
rose
The next countess, Miss Marlon Stein
WHIS
the Amethyst, trapped
since April under the guna of shore batteries which threatened to destroy the ship.
In Service-wife style, |slim, fair-haired, 32-year- old Mra Kerans dismisses us routine the anxiety of the last few months. Instead, she gave this picture of the Lieut. - Commander whom she has not seen since a five-week's leave in 1947.
E.
Born in Birr, Eire, the son of
a regular soldier, the late Major
T. Kerans, D. S. D., John Simon went from a prepara- tory school, in Gloucester to the Royal Naval College at Dart- mouth.
Today, nt 35, after 20 years in the Navy, he looks the typf- cal picture-postcard navul on- ccr: Bft. 21ins.. fair-haired, slim, athletic-looking.
The orthodox picture is con- Armed by the SPORTS "he played Rugby wing three-
Dartmouth,
at
won
Lord Lascelles,quarter still in the trenches, cups for running and fencing"; staff and by his TASTES-"likes a offered a appointment. Hin beer and an occasional pink comrades pressed him gin, smokes cigarettes, and to take it, saying it dances just well enough not to would glvo him a be conspicuous."
better chance of liv Ing to enjoy his in- heritance,
Mrs Kerans
hus- sees her band as a man who never gets
But Lord Lascelles, excited-unless he's left out of
something and very method- a D. S. O, and twice cal But he knows how. wounded, refused to leave his men.
He would, for example, stare remained in command
He
*himself enjoy ashore." of his
at a fellow member, then with battalion in the armistice. deliberation, cock a suook at him holding thumb and ex- tended fingers to his nose like u street urchin.
He would sit alone in a win- dow alcove of one club over looking the street, licking the tip of his long nose with his longue.
Marquis scoured the dustbins-
to
when he's
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
Only audienco for The Kerans Story was, flaxen-hair- ed Charmları, their daughter. AFTER THE WAR Lord who will be three in October Lascelles bought a town re. She was little more than one sidence, Chesterfield House, year old when her father Jast one of London's finest mansions, aw her. To that private palaos he took the King's daughter as his wife, In Yorkshire they lived at Goldsborough Hall, not far from ancestral Harewood, where his father sul ruled,
--Botiv-as-Lord-Lascelles,—and later as the Earl of Harewood, "lucky" Lascelles became a not- able figure in the pubile life of Yorkshire.
So the story comes to present day, when George Henry Hubert, seventh Earl of Hare- wood, aged 28, and son of the lucky Lord Lascelles is introduc- ing his flance, Miss Steln, to the He even forged in street dust- glories of the Lascelles York
for hire. bins in West End mews kitchen refuse. Wives of tax! drivers, thinking he was poor, gave him food,
would Sometimes he Among the most distinguished masters of Harewood was the strips of fat he collected from
са
Lascelles Often when he dined at the were always club he would eat sandwiches eam petent from a paper bag, and fellow formers and with a banana dipped in coffee. good, a 8.
Onor he ordered cutlets. When well as vast, they were served the marquis landowners.
carefully rolled them up in I n the napkin and put them in his nine teenth pocket.
century,
passing through Harewood, Pro- fessor Huxley noted that: "The labourers' houses are the best I have ever seen."
THE FIRST Lascelles eine North of Eng- The mixer-Marqule of Clanricardo with Wuliam the Con queror. He was Plcotus de Lassels, and ha.. fought at Iinstings. His reward was the manor of Seniton, Northaller- ton in North Yorkshire.
There was a Roger de Larcel- In Parliament In 1295. In direct descent there were Las- celles at Ilinderskelte, Gan- thorpe, and Northallerton until
les
In co
the
Most of the land in Ireland has now boon cold. All that remains is about a dozen cottages.
There is Harewood House, still
'Q H.
Comrade jeel, Battery Commander, that the time has come for a ittle healthy Marziet sell-
criticism
Costing £100,000 and designed by Adam, its columns and por- ticos looked out over 2,000 acres ut Yorkshire parkland, laid out by the famous "Capability Brown, the founder of English landscape gardening,
Here the
So family entertained fifth car!, Henry Ulick, born in the dustbins and ask the chef n noble seat. Goldsborough Hall From their 1840, Bearing a strong resem at one of his clubs to cock them is now a school. But there are Indian estates
they blance to Edward VII., he ruled for him. The request was, noi 30,000 acres of Yorkshire land in brought fine mahogany for the over 30,000 Yorkshire ncrs. unnaturally, refused.
He was a Yorkshireman who believed in
Yet at this time the marquis speaking his mind. He did not like Germans. In owned 50,000 acres and hils in September 1914, warning hls come was probably £80,000 &
stoners against German spys year.
the civil wars of the seventeenth and queens,
century.
Then the Lascelles were on the 70 do winning aide. Franels, M.P. for the North Riding, was a colonel in the Parliamentary Army.
Merchants in West Indies
It was in this century that the family began to lay the founda- tion of a fortune abroad.
George and Henry Lascelles went to Barbados, set up ag raerchants, and bought
in the House of Commons.
70 double doors of the house.
In turn Its Inhabitants brought Gainsboroughs, Rev- nolds, and Turners to its walls and galleries. A collection of China, was established, which is reputed to be unequalled in Britain.
30
For only three vases in it the family once refused £12,000.
Those were
It has been said that on one
contact alone
on the coast, he sald: "As for naturalised Germans. I do not belleve in them at all.”
By 1923 he was forecasting with sagaelty that the great of estates of Britain would break
IT WAS his son Edwin who, for philanthropy and
The Lascelles public works, was created family spent £100,000. firal Baron of Harewood In 1750. He took the title from, a
money inherlianos. Forecast ond village oight miles from Leeds, overlooking the broadening, clear
1
her contribullon
was
brief, but with some apparent consciousness of its importance: Daddy has brought his ship
the family,
out of the Ankseo" River." And the Barhodos plantations Mrg Kerans took over again. thrive. Today they are owned and told how as a wartime and managed by Gerald Lasect- Wren officer,
the and John les, 24-year-old brother of the Kerans worked at Combined carl.
Ops. H.Q. at Portsmouth They met again "by chance" at The Belle, an 800-acre planla Colombo. MEETING between Lord Lascelles and the tion said to be worth £125,000,
became engaged, but marquis took place in one lies three miles outside Bridge-decided not to get married un- the clubs during the 1014-10 town. Close by is the Mount, al after the war. Those months
plantation of 300 acres,
war.
THE
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wonderful- Ceylon werd HAREWOOD became A up.
but John was moon off to the seat of politicnt power.
Lord Lascelles, then a colonoi
Far East" Johm Kerang, whe sugur
It was a tting climax to the in the Grenadier Guards, was The Laseciles were dichard
had been on convoy duty in plantations.
Conservatives, and they con- rise of this great family that in home on leave from the trenches
the Atlantic was in the Nalad Henry married there twice, trolled a certain amount of re-
1922 Lord Lascelles, the heir to and was taken by a friend to both times to the daughters of presentation in the Commons for its possessions were begining to
whon it was torpedoed in the Tol. 59640 the carldom in the days when the club to dine.
BUT EVEN THESE are Mediterranean. wealthy traders, and he returned
considerably
But the Jast 200 years.
than
few months more
•homa & millionaire,to direct, the
He saw marry Princess
the marquis sitting the days of the shrink, should
Pleotus do Lassals
been the most could have, perhaps, affairs of his Barbados estates "rotten boroughs."
the alone nos sald, "I must speak to visualize when when sats Mary, only daughter of
William the anxious for Mrs Kerans, wait- uncle. I haven't seen him for Conqueror awarded him while sitting for Northallerton were openly bought and bestow. reigning King.
Charmian In with
the the ing ed for services rendered or to be
years."
sus- manor of Scruton, and he set house at Littlehampton, To this lucky Lord Lasoilles— rendered.
father of the present cari-there The marquis looked up in out to found one of England's sex, she has taken for the sum coma a fortuitous acquisition to surprise when the smart Guards. Exeatest land-owning. familles. She said: the family wealth in the shape minn grected him.
"I have had regu And before the next genera- [lar cables from him in the of land in Ireland and o vast
tion of Lascelles rulo at Hare-Amethyst, but they have been They inlled "about the war, Clanricardo listened intently to wood the changes may well be about personal matters. I have
even greater.
learned more about what ha It was a chance meeting with his nephew's stories.
been going on in the Yangise the Marquis of Clanricarde, a
For these are days of change, from the papors this great-undle, that led to good fortune.
even in the choosing of a bride. But the Intest newO
heard from the radio: in 200 words
Since the Conquest the Laseel-alone with the baby.
I just les have practically always not know what to do to cele- Lord Laserlies went back to mads marriages with English brate. I rang up John's mollier THE MARQUIS owned Ypres and battle. Lord. Clan- at the time was collector of worth, at any rate in the most large estates in Galway, ricardo went home and altered girls of similar station in life, In Berkshire and we had a little
the On
of the daughters the 200- his will спо
funded gosip. Then I kissed the baby aristocracy. roomal Poriumna Castic.
Vand went to bed feeling vory, he mada tho Today's romance is probably very happy.” He was an absentee lanilford,
the first
What where a belds of con- a sudden Impulse. heir to the who lived alons in dust-covered Clonricarde fortune of two and time that a bead of the family get some leave. That would be
· And it is certainly the first always The returning officer, how chambers In Albany, London, Harewood. In the year of Napo ever, was of another mind, with
a half million pounds. His has married the daughter of a wonderful. For it would he Loon's retreat from Moscow. the result that Wilberforce was"
He belonged to famous social housekeeper and buller witness king, and the son who sucossded only thair pocond leave to- By this time the family had returned at the head of the poll, clubs, but was shunned. by mosted the altered will
him chosen a girl of the working gother sines their honeymoon built Harewood Castle, now call- and Mr Lasceller at the bot of their members because of his Two months later Clanricarde class
In 1940, ed Harewood House. This was. tom.”
habiti.
died
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stream of the River Wharte.
It
was a short-lived peerage,
of big estates.
'But the family did not always
for Edwin died in 1705, and the win title became extinct.
It is recorded: "A Lascelles
But not for long. Brother fought Wilberforce and Lord George had a son Edward, who Milton for, if not all he was Customs Barbarios.
I'm
The
costly fashion on record. Pestago
re-established in The dicetion endured for, a hie favour in
fortnight, and one of the parties Edward was a
was
slood
Altered will
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In 200 words
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