ANOTHER LIBERAL LORD.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13094, 20 April 1908, Page 7

ANOTHER LIBERAL LORD.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, April 17. Mr Edmund Robertson, who was Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty in Sir Henry Campbell-Ban-normam's Ministry, and retired, has been created a Baron.

[Despite the campaign of the Liberals against the House of Lords, the making of Liberal ipeers . goes on. Unionist critics have not failed to point out that during the last thirty or forty years Liberals have created more peers than their opponents. Mr H. C. Lea, a Liberal M.P., has spoken strongly on the inconsistency or the Government. Mr Robertson's retirement from offioe is -orobably due to his age—63. He was Civil Lorcf-of the Admiralty, 1892-95, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty from until his retirement. It is worthy of note that more than half of the hereditary peerages "whoso holders now sit in the House of Lords wero created in the nineteenth century. It was calculated last year that of 520 hereditary peers, 295 dated from the nineteenth century,' and 40 from the twentieth It was also stated that 150 members of the Upper House had been members of the Commons, and 61 had held posts in various Governments. J