Laredo Weekly Times

AUGUST 18.

The young Duke of Leinster, who has wagered that he will sail single-handed across the Atlantic, is the premier duke and marquis and earl in the peerage of Ireland. He succeeded to the title only last February upon the death of an elder brother. He was born in 1892 and at the age of twenty-one was married to Miss May Etheridge, a musical comedy actress. The couple spent their honeymoon in Canada, living in a woodsman's hut on a lake in Quebec. The Duke took part in the World War and was seriously wounded while serving as lieutenant in the West Rider Regiment. The Leinster family is descended from the illustrious family of Fitzgerald, itself descended from Dominus Otho, who came to England in 1057 and obtained the favor of Edward the Confessor. His Grace is the seventh Duke of Leinster, which title dates from 1761, and was bestowed by Queen Anne. He is the twenty-sixth Earl of Kildare, which title dates from 1316, and the thirty-second Baron of Offaly, a title that has been in the family since 1168.