Lord Emly, who has recently reached an agreeable understanding with his Irish tenants concerning the sale of his valuable estates in Limerick and Clare, has ancestral ties to France. His mother, being the second wife of the late peer, bore the lineage of the Comte de Montigny, thus reflecting his French heritage. In addition to his Irish properties, which he is presently divesting, Lord Emly also possesses the de Drouilly estate in Touraine, France.

Lord Emly has been united in matrimony for many years, yet the absence of a living son leaves the question of succession to his baronial title, bestowed upon his father in 1874, unanswered.

Chelmsford Chronicle – Friday 25 March 1904