New, Peers.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 87, 9 March 1876, Page 6

New, Peers.

A considerable.additionwas made to the Hourt of Lords on December. 27th. by tho creation oi . four new peei-s,. while. additional . hotaora ward contomporaneously, fconferred uppn ; thtee .tioble--men who already hold seats in^hataugusVa***-, sembly. T give a few particulars^regarding ea.ch, beginning with those raised tb the They a re : — . • ■".■■." '.' ''VJ' Mr John Ralph Ormsby-Gore, M.P., for TStotfh, Shropshire,' which' he haa represented since 1850. Ha also previously sat for Carnarvonshire for five yeare7 He is.'a'BCion of the ancient house oi Grore,^ Earls of Arran, in Ireland. Henry Gerard Sturt has sat as one i of the members for Dorsetshire since 1856. He ia bes* k-^pTOL-M a'.breeiler of iorses, and -his speech- <h1 ' ;horse breeding; one of/the ..features of last" session of Parliament. Mr Disraeli has recently .been staying, with- him at his Beat lit' Cricket Dorset. Sir Robert Tolver Gerard, ' 13th Baronet ot Bryn, Lancashire is , a Roman (Jatholic. of; v»ry ancient lineage, being of common ancestry with, the Duke of Leinster and tho Marquis of Lans" I?.*1 ?.* downe through one of the" "Bardn's 'of - King Edward the Confessor. ' He is a Deputy-Lieu-tenant for Lancashire. - - -•,■»• Mr John Tollemache, of Helmingham H^ftl. Suffolk, formerly sat in. Parliament [ : "for:. Vtho southern and western divisions of Cheshire-, He resigned his; seat for West Cheshire in 1872;,. and was succeeded by his son, the present member. ... ■ ' '"''" Those whp have, received promotion in the Peerage are ': — The Earl of Erne, of wnorti nobody seexftfr to know anything,' save that he is.an Irish repr'a*- , sentative peer, and Lord Lieutenant of County IJermanagh. He is now made an fiafl' in the Peerage of 'the Hni ted kingdom. ''■'■' '■' ■ : Baron Wharn'cliffe is advaaeod to an earldom^ Ho is chiefly known as a leading spirit in "the volunteer movement. It is alleged that.M r Disraeli is trying to use him tfs the. sprat to catch the mackeral of the 'Bute' interest with which LordWharnclitteis closely allied. '•-.-''•• The Earl of AWgatenny is made a liarquis. ' As one of great family of . ifevifis, his barony dating from 1392, his new honor is ;less inappropriate than some bestowed upon ignoble | " parvenus." He, possesses large, estates" in Mon*.mouth, Kent, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Sussex, and is patron of 24 Ohuroh livings. I The Duke, of .Richmond— whp jui, als6 4 btik-aiJof^ Lennox, and; ofV D|Aufcigny, ia.^ratfoe^isVnoV^ further 'made -Duke % 6f Gorden.^'This^aeie- 1 * .came dorment in^ 1836, when th£)-«^BAe>>'paßsed •to] the present Duke through his "mother,; "so, that 'the revival of the title. iti h'is:'pers«f is ftppropri late.. He now stands in tW. unique -position oi being the holder of f otuydufcaltitlea, the Duke of ( - Hamilton coming next with three. Along .with accnierto hii^.^eightVMthem being in,thelPee^ y ■?f .Spp-^pd^ancl: t-^oVih^thfttypbEnglancL'i' -&&**' - Grace's,. pure^;J-J^^^ Oximat the head of ' Highland landlords in •&&•'. : ■respect, even . the ; Djike V o • E^<SutlJ r er]^d^min•^ i after him, — * Daily Times ' correspondehK