26 JANUARY 1901, Page 13

[TO THE EDITOR OF TRE SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—Your correspondent, the Hon. D. F. Fortescue, calls attention to the case of Lady Carew, as furnishing a living "link with the past" of singular interest. He might, however, have added that her father, Major Antony Cliffe, of Abbey Braney, Co. Wexford, fought with the rank of Major at the battle of Dettingen in 1743, the last occasion on which a King of England was personally engaged as a combatant.—