HIGH HONOURS.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19480, 29 November 1928, Page 17

HIGH HONOURS.

■ ; GARTER FOR LORD LONSDALE. THISTLE FOR LORD STRATHMORE. (FR6.U oub ovra cobbbspondikt.) LONDON, October 12. The King has been pleased to approve that the Earl of Lonsdale, 6.C.V.0., be appointed a Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter; and that the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, 6.C.V.0., be appointed a Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Tlustle. Lord Lonsdale, who succeeds to the Garter left vacant, by the death of Lord Durham, is the most characteristically English sportsman of his generation. His popularity among British sportsmen was strikingly demonstrated on the occasion of his golden wedding last June, when on their behalf the Prince of Wales presented him with a huge gold casket, and a large sum to be distributed in charity. The casket also illustrates Lord Lonsdale's versatile tastes, for it bears in relief eight panels representing his favourite sports—namely, hunting, flat racing, steeplechasing, shooting, deer stalking, yachting, boxing, and coursing. Of these, hunting was his first love, and he had been Master of both the Quorn and the Cottesmore, while in the boiing world he will be remembered as the donor of the championship belts bearing his name. Lord Strathmore, who succeds to the Thistle left vacant by the-death of Lord Haldane, is the father of the Duchess of York, on the occasion of whose marriage in 1923 he was created G.C.V.O. In the Order he joins two of his sons-in-law, the Duke of York, created K.T. on the day of his marriage, and Lord Elphinstone, created in 1927. Lord Strathmore, a great territorial nobleman, is the head of an ancient family which has played a notable part in the history of Scotland. His barony of Glamis dates from 1445. He is Lord Lieutenant of Forfarshire.