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...Elizabeth Drexel Lehr, 64, daughter of the late, great Philadelphia Financier Joseph William Drexel, widow of famed Socialite Playboy Henry Symes Lehr, of whom she last year wrote a bitter, best-selling biography ("King Lehr" and the Gilded Age) ; and the Baron John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford Decies, 70, representative peer for Ireland in Great Britain, whose first wife was the late Vivien, daughter of George Jay Gould; in Paris...
John D. Adams, of West Brattlebore, Vt.; Frederick S. Armstrong, Jr., of Weymouth, Mass.; Sidney R. Ballon, of Concord, Mass.; Spenser M. Beresford, of Philadelphia, Pa.; John H. Brash, of Norfolk, Neb.; Joseph J. Buckley, of Somerville, Mass.; Joseph W. Chapman, of Leadville, Colo,; Paul T. Choate, of Groton, Mass.; Warrick E. Elrod, Jr., of Atlanta, Ga.; Richard R. Evans, of Berlin, Mass.; Richard W. Galbraith, Jr., of Exeter, N. H.; Stephen S. Gracewski, of Thompsonville, Conn.; Robert L. Green, Jr., of Baltimore...
Died. John Charles de la Poer Beresford, seventh Marquess of Waterford, 33; accidentally (shotgun); in Portlaw, County Waterford, Irish Free State. Legend held that a curse of violent deaths had been put on seven generations of his family; the third Marquess died of a fall in the hunting field; the fifth shot himself; the sixth drowned...
...gone to England in 1898, dumfounded the crowds at Newmarket by gluing his small frame monkey-like to his mount's neck instead of perching high in the saddle. In the next two years he booted in 63 winners in 151 races, mostly for the late Lord Beresford. He saw English jockeys copy his "American style." He was exhibited to Mayfair drawing rooms, wore the silks of Edward of Wales, heard the future King shout from the royal box: "Well ridden, Sloan...
...marriage), Helene Violette de Talleyrand (Anna's daughter by her second marriage): Anna Eleanor Marie Raymonde de Castellane, Pauline Beatrix Yvonne Helene Flourida de Castellane (Anna's grandchildren); Francoise Florence de Montenach, Rolande Dorothy de Graffenried de Villiers (grandchildren of Frank Gould): Eileen Vivien de la Poer Beresford O'Brien, Arthur George Marcus Douglas de la Poer Beresford (children of George's daughter, Vivien, Lady Decies): not to mention several dozen others of less distinguished names such as Anthony J. Drexel III, Caroline de Peyster Wainright, Gioia Bishop (various other grandchildren of George...