Dissolution Honours.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 253, 22 October 1892, Page 4 (Supplement)

Dissolution Honours.

Who the New Peers and Baronets

(from our own correspondent.)

London, August 26. The list of dissolution honours published last Saturday is generally admitted to be a moderate one, considering the longb^ of the Parliament. There are several striking omissions, bowevor, the most remarkable boing Mr Akora Douglas, the late Whip, whom the club gossips unanimously put down for a peerage, and Sir Algernon Borthwick and Mr Buckle. The lastnamed, ib is understood, refused a baronetcy, and Sir Algernon's loyalty to his Kensington constituents cost him tho de eignation of' Right Honourable.' British commerce—tho 'Star' points out—is not much represented in the higher honours conferred by Lord Salisbury on his followers,

Lord Cranbrook owes his fortuue to the Lowmoor ironworks, but not bis peerage, which ir puroly political. Mr Cubltt and Mr Mulholland may also be said in a distant way to be connected with trade, for the former is a son of the famous builder, and tbe latter in one of a family which has grown rich by mercantile pursuits in Ireland. Neither of them has any need, however, to buckle-to themselves. They have both graduated for tbe peerage by living the easy lives of comfortable country gentlemen.

Baronetcies and knighthoods, on the other hand, havo gone thick as flios to men in business. Beer comes oil badly, the only nmn in the liquor trade remembered is the distiller, who now blossoms out into Sir F. Seagar-Hunt. He is immensely rich, and can afford to keop up the neceßeary style, Sir John Muir, the Lord Provost of Glasgow, if a partner in the noilknown house of Findlay, Muir, and Co., which has been established in Glasgow for more than 100 yeara. Sir John Muir has bcon one of the most prominent of Glasgow citizens, and, apart from political considerations, his selection for a baronetcy will be entirely to the liking of Scotch commerce. Bankers are repro tented by Sir Frederick Dixon-Hartland and Sir Horace Farqubar. The latter is the bosom friend of the Duke of Fifo, whose best man he was at his wedding. There is nobody like Horace in the Marble Arch household. Baron Schroeder also may be *aid to represent financial interests ; ib is ho who entertains Prince Christian so freoly at bis lovely place on the fringe of Windsor Forest. His hothouses and gardens are ever at the disposal of the Princess for flowers or fruit for her dinner-table.

Lord Willoughby d'Eresby becomes an earl. It ib probable ho will tako the title of the Earl of Ancaster, thus reviving an old titular distinction in the family, although they were formerly Dukes of Ancaster. Lord Willoughby d'Eresby is one of the richest of peers. Grimthorpe, in Lincolnshire, is not a show place, but it is one of the finest seats in England, placed in one of the largest parks in the country. The new earl recently received £8,000 from the Glasgow Corporation for renouncing his rights to build on some barren land on the shores of lioch Katrine. His wife is one of the stateliest and most exclusive of society women.

The other new peers are all solid country gentlemon, fairly we'l equipped with "the world's goods. Sir Archibald Campbell, of Blytheswood, is tho great eround landlord of Glasgow. Blytheswood Square, which makea one think of Madeline Smith's murder case, is bis, and many streets round in. Tho old house with its lovely gardens beside the ovil-snielling Clyde was one of tho late Duke of Albany's favourite haunts.

;Mr'W. J. Legh, of Lyme, ia head of one of«the best-known of Cheshire families. He has} a rental of £45,C00 a year. Some time ago there was a herd of wild cattle in hie park like Earl Tankervillo's at Chillingham. Sir Thomas Brooks is the brother of Sir R. Cunliffe Brooks, the rich banker, who boueht Lord Huntly's Doosido estate. Sir Thomas's claims to a peerage consist in having been beaten by Mr Mndon at Roasondale, a division in which ho is a large employer of labour, his quarries alone, only one department of bis industrial interests, giving work to a thousand men. Sir Thomas only pot his baronetcy a year or two ago, so that his elftvacion to the peerage now is extraordinarily rapid progress. Mr Rolls, of the Hendre, is a type of the class of country gentlemen who don't become any more distinguished by being peers. His name is one to conjure with round about Monmouth. Recently he inherited a considerable fortune from his relative Mr Carnogie, of Rogate. As for Mr Tyssen-Amherst, he is besb known as the ground landlord of Hackney, a circumstance which is supposed to swell his otherwise large rental to the modest tune of £100,000 a year. Mr Amhersb has long been in training for a peerage. The services of Tory newspapers to the Government are recognised by the baronetcies granted to Mr John Jaffray, Mr Edward Lawson, and Captain Armstrong. Mr Jaffray, who owns the ' Birmingham Post and Daily Mail,' and Mr Lawson, the proprietor of the ' Daily Telegraph,1 draw immense salaries from their properties, and Mr Jatlray has earned a name for philanthropy by generous gifts to Birmingham charities. IE is many years since Mr Lawson doubled the character of a country gentleman with that of newspaper proprieror. He paid £170,000 for the estate of Hall Barn, in Bucks, and haß since then laid out immecae sums on the residence and the estato.