EARL KILLED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 115, 17 May 1932, Page 7

EARL KILLED.

FORMER CANADIAN RANCHER,

LONDON, May 16,

The death has occurred ot the Earl of Egmont, formerly a Canadian rancher, from injuries received in a motor accident.

The 10th Earl of Egmont, Frederick J. T. Perceval, was «8 yeais of age. He was a distant kinsman ot the former earl, and was farming m Canada when lie succeeded to the title in J">»' 1929. He was only distantly related to tlie ninth earl, who was born in New Zealand, and who died in England on Januaiy 11, 1929. Mount Egmont, in New /.ealand, was named by Captain Cook afto the second earl, a prominent politician in the time of George 11., and irom Lol to 17GG First Lord of the Admiralty.

Nothing less romantic in tie History of the peerage can be imagined than the homecoming of the new earl to the family estate at Avon Castle, Hampshne, j in March, 1029. A reporter was the only person who met him at the station at Ringwood. "Ain't there anybody here from the castle?" asked the earl as he stepped on to the platform. When told that there was not, he thrust hw hands 'into his pockets, and said: Well, li ain't wanted much here. Wheie will I stay ?" tit The reporter conducted the earl to a hotel, where lie said: "1 want a lot of | sleep. I hate people, men and women. I have been too bothered. Asked \\ lien he was going to the castle lie said. Well, I fniess I will not crowd in to-mjit. 1 will take a shack here until to-morrow and so saying lie disappeared into thsmall hotei.