310 MRS GEORGE GREY BUTLER 



when early in the last century this country was threatened 

 with an invasion by France, they with their brother, Major 

 Charles Maximilian St. Paul (long the popular and well- 

 known master of the Galewood Hounds) were the means of 

 raising the Cheviot Legion, of which Count St. Paul was 

 colonel, a body of cavalry, that only wanted the opportunity 

 to show that valour and courage, which for centuries has 

 distinguished our borderers, and which our own yeomanry 

 have proved in South Africa exists to-day in undiminished 

 lustre. 



Her father, the late Sir Horace St. Paul, was for upwards 

 of 50 years possessor of Ewart, and for some time Member 

 of Parliament for East Worcestershire, where he had large 

 estates. For many years he was a very well-known character 

 in Northumberland, and by those honoured with his friendship 

 was highly appreciated for his kindness and gentlemanly 

 bearing, his desire to make those about him happy and 

 prosperous, and for those great intellectual gifts which made 

 him a most interesting companion. In early life he had seen 

 the evil which arose from excessive drinking, too common 

 in those days, in the upper as well as in the lower classes 

 of society, and he became, when a comparatively young man, 

 a strong advocate of the temperance movement, and gave 

 very practical evidence of his belief in the soundness of his 

 views and sentiments, though always tolerant and courteous 

 to those who differed from him on this great question. 



On her mother's side Mrs Butler was descended from one 

 of our very oldest Northumbrian houses. The lineage of 

 the Greys goes back into days that it is difficult to trace ; 

 but through the mist of years, and across the fading centuries, 

 that house has ever produced sons and daughters worthy of 

 their progenitors, and adding, as years roll on, new names 

 that bring honour and renown to the family tree. From 

 the middle of the last century, for many years, few names 

 were better known in Northumberland than those of John 

 Grey of Dilston, and George Annett Grey of Milfield, the 

 grandfather and father of the lady whose decease we so 

 greatly lament. 



When quite a child Mrs Butler was deprived by death 

 of a mother's care and training, and for ten years, till 



