'VARSITY SENSATION.
A grandson of Sir John Gorst, famous minister of Education in the Gladstonian period — Derek Charles Gorst — was sentenced at Cambridge yesterday to six months' imprisonment for stealing from ! the rooms of undergraduates at college. He pleaded guilty to four charges of theft and to loitering with intent, and he admitted other charges of theft. His solicitor stated that Gorst's father was a son of Sir John Gorst, and, as he separated from his wife when the son was quite young, Derek Gorst had grown up without parental control. Young Gorst married a Russian woman in Paris, but they were now living apart. For four years he was a "sapper" in the Royal Engineers, and he had been an actor. Some time ago he was appointed depot superintendent for an oil company, and came to Cambridge. Sir John Gorst was one of the members of Lord Randolph's Churchill's Fourth Party.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 27, 1 February 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)
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152'VARSITY SENSATION. Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 27, 1 February 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)
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