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    "ocrText": "LADY BLANCHE MURPHY.\nThe Eldest Daughter of an Earl Dying\nin a Village in New Hampshire.\nFrom the New York Sun.\nLady Blanche Murphy died at Conway,\nN. H., yesterday morning. Her father is the\nEarl of Gainsborough. The family name is\nNoel, and Lady Blanche, as the eldest daugh-\nter, bore the title of the Right Honorable\nBlanche Elizabeth Mary Annunciata Noel.\nHer mother, Lady Augusta, eldest daughter\nof the Earl of Erroll, died before Lady\nBlanche was twenty years of age. She has\ntwo brothers, the Viscount Campden and\nLord Edward, one of whom is serving in the\nBritish army in India. Her younger sister is\nthe wife of Henry Bellingham, Member of\nParliament. The estate of the Earl of Gains-\nborough is in Rutlandshire, England, where,\nat Exton Hall, Lady Blanche was born. Her\ngirlhood was devoted to travel and study.\nShe spent some time at school in Italy\nand France, and learned to speak Ital-\nian,\nFrench, German and Spanish.\nShe was familiar, too, with Latin and\nhad a fair knowledge of Greek.\nThe Earl of Gainsborough, once a Protest-\nant, became a Roman Catholic, and at his\nseat, Exton Hall, he has a private chapel\nwhere services are held each day. It was\nnearly fifteen years ago that a young Irish-\nman, Thomas T. Murphy, was engaged as\norganist in this chapel. With him Lady\nBlanche fell in love, and a runaway marriage\nfollowed.\nWithin one year they left England and\ncame to New York. Lady Blanche was still\nproud and brave, but her irresolute and easily\ndiscouraged husband had nothing to do, and\nbread was scarce. Then Lady Blanche\nbegan to write magazine articles. She and\nher husband had lodgings in Henry street,\nand the brave little lady toiled with the\nmeans at hand for their support. At this\ntime Father Hecker, the Catholic priest, found\nher out, and was the means of helping Lady\nBlanche to a wider market for her writings.\nHer education had been generous, and her\ngift with a pen was marked. She wrote\ncleverly and well, and had no trouble in sell-\ning all that she had to offer. Father Hecker\nalso found a place as organist for Mr. Murphy\nin New Rochelle. Until the time of her\ndeath she did not cease her relations with the\nCatholic World, and in the April number,\njust published, she has a paper on \"The\nTomb of the Conquistador.\" In the May\nnumber, now in press, is an article on \"The\nGreek Monasteries of Mt. Athos.\"\nTheir last change was to North Conway, N,\nH., where they were both engaged to teach in\nthe Kearsarge Academy. At the time of her\ndeath Lady Blanche was not much over thirty-\nfive years of age. She has had no children."
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