Publication:Harrisburg Telegraph
Location:Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Issue Date:Tuesday, August 9, 1887
Page:Page 1
ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE. The heir to a Dukedom Dies In Poverty. George Essex Montifex, Lord Drummond and Viscount Forth, died at St. Luke's Hospital, New York, Friday morning, of consumption. He was born in Scotland, September 3d, 1856, son of Lord George Henry Drummond, Viscount Forth, and grandson of George Drummond, Earl of Perth and Duke of Melfoit. His parents died in his early infancy, and young George Drummond was left to the care and training of his grandmother, the Hon. Mrs. Capel, a granddaughter of the Earl of Essex. She died when he was 14 years old. He eloped with a woman who had been his grandmother's nurse, and who had previously eloped with her father's coachman. They arrived in New York July 26th, 1872, and a year later were married. Times went hard with them. The young man engaged John B. Ireland to plead with his grandfather, the Earl, for assistance. The Earl was anxious that he should return and assume the position demanded by his rank and succeed to the titles and estates of Perth and Melfort, but he required of Lord Drummond that he leave the woman with whom he was living, and this the young man refused to do. He obtained employment as salesman in a clothing house, then as a clerk in a Park Row newspaper office, and finally was put to work in the press room, where he contracted a cold which developed into fatal consumption. He leaves a little girl eight years old. The simple burial service of Trinity church, without music or flowers, was all there was of the funeral. A collection was taken up for the widow and daughter. It yielded them a few dollars with which to buy the immediate necessaries of life. The body was placed in the Ireland family vault in Trinity churchyard, until it shall be otherwise disposed of by the Earl of Perth.
Steel coffin containing remains of
George Essex Montifex Drummond Viscount Fourth. Born Sept. 3, 1856 - Died Aug. 4, 1877. "Lord Drummond" George Drummond Earl of Perth.
Died of consumption in hospital.
Son of Hon George Henry Charles Francis Malcolm Drummond, styled Viscount Forth (b. 13 May 1834; dvp. 8 Oct 1861 ; bur. at Gloucester, England), and Harriet Mary Capell [Married 24 Oct 1855 (sep. 1858)]
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Location:Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Issue Date:Tuesday, August 9, 1887
Page:Page 1
ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE. The heir to a Dukedom Dies In Poverty. George Essex Montifex, Lord Drummond and Viscount Forth, died at St. Luke's Hospital, New York, Friday morning, of consumption. He was born in Scotland, September 3d, 1856, son of Lord George Henry Drummond, Viscount Forth, and grandson of George Drummond, Earl of Perth and Duke of Melfoit. His parents died in his early infancy, and young George Drummond was left to the care and training of his grandmother, the Hon. Mrs. Capel, a granddaughter of the Earl of Essex. She died when he was 14 years old. He eloped with a woman who had been his grandmother's nurse, and who had previously eloped with her father's coachman. They arrived in New York July 26th, 1872, and a year later were married. Times went hard with them. The young man engaged John B. Ireland to plead with his grandfather, the Earl, for assistance. The Earl was anxious that he should return and assume the position demanded by his rank and succeed to the titles and estates of Perth and Melfort, but he required of Lord Drummond that he leave the woman with whom he was living, and this the young man refused to do. He obtained employment as salesman in a clothing house, then as a clerk in a Park Row newspaper office, and finally was put to work in the press room, where he contracted a cold which developed into fatal consumption. He leaves a little girl eight years old. The simple burial service of Trinity church, without music or flowers, was all there was of the funeral. A collection was taken up for the widow and daughter. It yielded them a few dollars with which to buy the immediate necessaries of life. The body was placed in the Ireland family vault in Trinity churchyard, until it shall be otherwise disposed of by the Earl of Perth.
Steel coffin containing remains of
George Essex Montifex Drummond Viscount Fourth. Born Sept. 3, 1856 - Died Aug. 4, 1877. "Lord Drummond" George Drummond Earl of Perth.
Died of consumption in hospital.
Son of Hon George Henry Charles Francis Malcolm Drummond, styled Viscount Forth (b. 13 May 1834; dvp. 8 Oct 1861 ; bur. at Gloucester, England), and Harriet Mary Capell [Married 24 Oct 1855 (sep. 1858)]
http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/Perth1604.htm
Publication:Harrisburg Telegraph
Location:Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Issue Date:Tuesday, August 9, 1887
Page:Page 1
ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE. The heir to a Dukedom Dies In Poverty. George Essex Montifex, Lord Drummond and Viscount Forth, died at St. Luke's Hospital, New York, Friday morning, of consumption. He was born in Scotland, September 3d, 1856, son of Lord George Henry Drummond, Viscount Forth, and grandson of George Drummond, Earl of Perth and Duke of Melfoit. His parents died in his early infancy, and young George Drummond was left to the care and training of his grandmother, the Hon. Mrs. Capel, a granddaughter of the Earl of Essex. She died when he was 14 years old. He eloped with a woman who had been his grandmother's nurse, and who had previously eloped with her father's coachman. They arrived in New York July 26th, 1872, and a year later were married. Times went hard with them. The young man engaged John B. Ireland to plead with his grandfather, the Earl, for assistance. The Earl was anxious that he should return and assume the position demanded by his rank and succeed to the titles and estates of Perth and Melfort, but he required of Lord Drummond that he leave the woman with whom he was living, and this the young man refused to do. He obtained employment as salesman in a clothing house, then as a clerk in a Park Row newspaper office, and finally was put to work in the press room, where he contracted a cold which developed into fatal consumption. He leaves a little girl eight years old. The simple burial service of Trinity church, without music or flowers, was all there was of the funeral. A collection was taken up for the widow and daughter. It yielded them a few dollars with which to buy the immediate necessaries of life. The body was placed in the Ireland family vault in Trinity churchyard, until it shall be otherwise disposed of by the Earl of Perth.
Steel coffin containing remains of
George Essex Montifex Drummond Viscount Fourth. Born Sept. 3, 1856 - Died Aug. 4, 1877. "Lord Drummond" George Drummond Earl of Perth.
Died of consumption in hospital.
Son of Hon George Henry Charles Francis Malcolm Drummond, styled Viscount Forth (b. 13 May 1834; dvp. 8 Oct 1861 ; bur. at Gloucester, England), and Harriet Mary Capell [Married 24 Oct 1855 (sep. 1858)]
http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/Perth1604.htm
Location:Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Issue Date:Tuesday, August 9, 1887
Page:Page 1
ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE. The heir to a Dukedom Dies In Poverty. George Essex Montifex, Lord Drummond and Viscount Forth, died at St. Luke's Hospital, New York, Friday morning, of consumption. He was born in Scotland, September 3d, 1856, son of Lord George Henry Drummond, Viscount Forth, and grandson of George Drummond, Earl of Perth and Duke of Melfoit. His parents died in his early infancy, and young George Drummond was left to the care and training of his grandmother, the Hon. Mrs. Capel, a granddaughter of the Earl of Essex. She died when he was 14 years old. He eloped with a woman who had been his grandmother's nurse, and who had previously eloped with her father's coachman. They arrived in New York July 26th, 1872, and a year later were married. Times went hard with them. The young man engaged John B. Ireland to plead with his grandfather, the Earl, for assistance. The Earl was anxious that he should return and assume the position demanded by his rank and succeed to the titles and estates of Perth and Melfort, but he required of Lord Drummond that he leave the woman with whom he was living, and this the young man refused to do. He obtained employment as salesman in a clothing house, then as a clerk in a Park Row newspaper office, and finally was put to work in the press room, where he contracted a cold which developed into fatal consumption. He leaves a little girl eight years old. The simple burial service of Trinity church, without music or flowers, was all there was of the funeral. A collection was taken up for the widow and daughter. It yielded them a few dollars with which to buy the immediate necessaries of life. The body was placed in the Ireland family vault in Trinity churchyard, until it shall be otherwise disposed of by the Earl of Perth.
Steel coffin containing remains of
George Essex Montifex Drummond Viscount Fourth. Born Sept. 3, 1856 - Died Aug. 4, 1877. "Lord Drummond" George Drummond Earl of Perth.
Died of consumption in hospital.
Son of Hon George Henry Charles Francis Malcolm Drummond, styled Viscount Forth (b. 13 May 1834; dvp. 8 Oct 1861 ; bur. at Gloucester, England), and Harriet Mary Capell [Married 24 Oct 1855 (sep. 1858)]
http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/Perth1604.htm
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