The Telegraph - Thursday, April 18, 1895
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Queensberry's Eccentricities.
The Marquis of Queensberry, whose name has come up in connection with the Oscar Wilde scandal, is extremely eccentric, but he has not been much before the public. His first marriage (says a London writer) was in 1866, when he espoused the beautiful Miss Sybil Montgomery. This tie was dissolved, and about 18 months ago he married Miss Ethel Weedon Eastbourne, but the lady subsequently obtained a decree of nullity of marriage. It will be recollected that the marquis was a representative peer for Scotland, but that his fellow peers refused to re-elect him because of his very pronounced freethinking opinions, and his emphatic mode of expressing them. He gives utterance occasionally to some very startling theories at the Hall of Science, and on the marriage question is especially heterodox, while on other occasions he professed to be an admirer, almost an adherent, of General Booth. On the first night of Tennyson's "Promise of May" at the Lyceum, the marquis rose in his seat and protested against the views in reference to atheism which one of the actors had uttered.
The Marquis of Queensberry, whose name has come up in connection with the Oscar Wilde scandal, is extremely eccentric, but he has not been much before the public. His first marriage was in 1866, when he espoused the beautiful Miss Sybil Montgomery. This tie was dissolved, and about 18 months ago he married Miss Ethel Weedon Eastbourne, but the lady subsequently obtained a decree of nullity of marriage. It will be recollected that the marquis was a representative peer for Scotland, but that his fellow peers refused to re-elect him because of his very pronounced freethinking opinions, and his emphatic mode of expressing them. He gives utterance occasionally to some very startling theories at the Hall of Science, and on the marriage question is especially heterodox, while on other occasions he professed to be an admirer, almost an adherent, of "General" Booth. On the first night of Tennyson's Promise of May at the Lyceum, the Marquis rose in his seat and protested against the views in reference to atheism which one of the actors had uttered.