Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1879 — The Jewess Queen of the English Society. [ARTICLE]

The Jewess Queen of the English Society.

The death of the lady whose pleasure it was to be known from the title of the second of her four husbands,as Frances Countess Waldegrave, removes a conspicuous figure from English society. The daughter of John Braham, the vocalist, whose real name was Abraham, her life was a succession of social con3uests, It illustrates strikingly the octrine of the closing essay in Geo. Eliot'S last volume. TheophrastusHuch might have appealed to her career and position as a proof of the intellectual power of the Jews, and their capacity of ’ becoming masters in tlie communities in which but lately they were despised and proscribed outlaws. Iu politics, in finance, in journalism, in society, the Jews are playing the princi- 1 pal parts. A Jew Is Prime Minister; * a Jewish house controls in a great degree the political finance of the couiP try; a family of Jews are the proprietors and managers of the most largely circulated and, for its own purposes, the most skilfully conducted newspaper in England or perhaps in the world. A Jewish girl, the daughter of a public ballet singer, became a sort of mistress of society, rebuffing or admitting to her favor some of the haughtiest and most squeamish members of our old nobility. Lady Waldegrave’s receptions in Carlton House Garden and her hospitalities at Strawberry Hill has often been described. The marriage of a niece of Horace Walpole's with the Lord Waldegrave, who wtw “Governor” of George 111 when Prince of Wales, and afterward Prime Minister of George 11, brought the celebrated Twickenham House into the family of the late Lady Waldegrave’s first and second husbands. With all their property left away from their own family, to whom nothing has descended but a poverty Earldom, it became hers in full possession.* The report is tliat by death of her present husband, Lord Carlingford, who, as Chichester Fortesque, was a member of Mr. Gladstone’s Cabinet; and had a large share in the preparation and carrying out of the great Irish measures ol the Government. Bold and adventurous, generous, frank and kindly, a mistress of the arts of management. Lady Waldegrave’s career, if ever it be fully recorded, will be as strange and piquant a story as the political romance of Lord Beacon field’s life. Though belonging to opposite sides in politics, . their sympathy was strong, and Lord Beacon field was a frequent guest at Strawberry Hill. Indeed, the way in which the Jews hold together and play into each other’s bands while playing on society is remarkable. Minister, financier and journalist understands each other and work together. ,