tea houses, picturesque grottoes and classical temples. Today the house is a luxurious hotel, and the garden is open to the public. Personal life On 4 October 1883, Ernest married an American, Lucy Tracy Lee, the only child of William Pray Lee and Lucy Eldredge Tracy when he was 26 and she was 18. Lucy died on 9 May 1891, six days after their son's birth. They had three children: Lucy Katherine Beckett (born 1884), who married Count Otto Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, the Austro-Hungarian Minister to Bulgaria, in 1903. They divorced in 1920 and she remarried to Captain Oliver Harry Frost, son of Robert Frost (not the poet), in 1926 (divorced 1941). Helen Muriel Beckett (1886–1916) Ralph William Ernest Beckett (1891–1963). Beckett is also believed to have been the father of Violet Trefusis (1894–1972), whose mother, Alice Keppel was a mistress of King Edward VII. Today, Violet is mainly remembered for her lengthy affair with the poet Vita Sackville-West, which the two women continued after their respective marriages. He also fathered a son, Lancelot Ernest Cecil, in 1895 by the Johannesburg socialite and hostess José Brink Dale Lace, married to mining magnate, John Dale Lace. In 1901, Ernest became engaged to Eve Fairfax, but the engagement was broken a few years later. During this time, he commissioned a bust of Eve from sculptor Auguste Rodin, which was the first of several Rodin made using Eve as a model. Rodin and Eve became close friends during the sittings for these busts. Lord Grimthorpe died in April 1917, aged 60. He was succeeded in the baronetcy and barony by his son, Ralph Beckett. Lord Grimthorpe's younger brother, Gervase Beckett, also sat as a Conservative Member of Parliament and was created a baronet in 1921 (see Beckett baronets). His ashes are interred in the gardens of his beloved Villa Cimbrone. Descendants His only son was the father of Christopher John Beckett, who became the 4th Baron Grimthorpe upon Ralph's death in 1963. Another grandson, by his daughter Lucy, Manfred Beckett Czernin (1913–1962) was a distinguished Royal Air Force pilot and Special Operations Executive operative. Legacy In Leeds, Beckett Park is named after Lord Grimthorpe. In 2013, it was announced that the Board of Governors at Leeds Metropolitan University had applied to the privy council to change their name to Leeds Beckett University, named after the location of the university's founding colleges,