BIRTHDAY HONOURS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 236, 29 June 1908, Page 7

BIRTHDAY HONOURS.

:■ - ■■ ■——« - A LIBERAL PEER. RECEIVES. THE COVETED CARTER. COLONIAL RECIPIENTS. ". , IT .TELEGRAPH —rSHSS ASSOCIATION —COPYBICHI (Rec.,Jime>2B, 4.3-5 p.m.j •: i . ■ London, Juno 27. Tho Older of the Garter has been con'forred on tho .Marquess. of Northampton.. 1 , - ■ London, June 26. . , Tlio following additional Birthday Honours nro announced:—i . - Baionot :i Mr. Thos. Borthwick, of Messrs. Borthwick Bros., frozen meat importers. Knight'.Bachelor: His Honour John Hannah Gordon, of the Snpremo Court of South ■ Australia. MARQUESS OF NORTHAMPTON. A RADICAL CAVALIER.: ■ As, a Liberal Lord of ancient lineage,' tho Marquess of Northampton, now singled out for . the, rare ; horiour of the Garter,\ has attracted much notico. With a name (Compton) which dates back to tho time of Henry VIII, with an . . ancestor who fought for tho Cavaliers against the Roundheads and fell at Hopton -Heath (1643), and with 23,000 acres of. land among his ample '/possessions, the Marquess of North-. . ampton is, 1 nevertheless,' a ; Liberal, and, before succeeding »his father, sat in tho House of as such. Which explains tho following observations of a "Pall Mall Gazette" bio- ■ grapher :— i. ■ '•- ••••..In his iHoiise- of Cominons days Lord .William Compton and Earl Compton, as he was successively, was one of the marvels of the Radical pparty. What a nobleman of manners so exquisite and of lineage so patrician wanted .in tho samo gallery with tho Gladstonian horde of- ISBS passed the comprehension of his 1 peers.But ho filled the role of Radical member, as ho did else,• with grace, and tact, due, . no doubt, to his training in the diplomatic service.. He sat first for Warwickshire 1885-6, thon ■ for., the .Barnsley division of -Yorkshire 1869 to . his..succession in .1897 to tho title and tho estates iri Clerkenwell and Islington of his father. He was educated at Eton and Trinity - College, : Cambridge, spent some years at the. Embassies ,of Pans, Rome, and St. Petersburg,, vent with'his father's special mission to Spain in 1881.' He; sings well, and has been called tho. ltomney Leigh pf real; life. He married the Hon.: Mary Paring,': only daughter and heiress 1 of- tho second Baron 'Ashburton, and his heir, child,'E.-irl Compton, born 1885.... .Besides .having been in the diplomatic ser- ' P. 00 ' the Marquess was Secretary to the LordLieut, of.lreland (EarL Cowper)'from 1860 to ~ JBS2. ■He has written -"A History of Compton . Wynyates.";. The Order of the Garter is the , highest order of knighthood in Great Britain, : insisting of the Sovereign, the Prince of Wales, and twenty t five Knight's Companions, J D 4 ; °P en in addition to such English princes and Wirmgn sovereigns as may bo chosen, and some- : times to extra Companions chosen for special , -reasons, .^o ; that the whole order usually numbers, about, fifty. Queen Alexander is Lady of • the Garter. , ' r ' ,' .COLONIAL JUDGES. ~His. Honour Sir John Hannah Gordon has : been a.judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia since 1901, prior to which ho was Attorney-General, having, held that position in South Australia in two separate Governments. He(was also Minister for Education and Chief Secretary. He was a delegate to tho . Australian ;. Federal Convention, , and a member of the ConEtitutional Committee of that Convention. Of-those new Knights'whose names: werecabled.on Saturday. Chief; Justice Sir Stephen :Henry Parker,-of West Australia, was a membor. of .the Legislative Council of that. colony .in its* infancy, v and. in 1890 was delegato from the Legislature to the.lmperial Parliament to advocate responsible government for tho grow-ing-colony..;: In 1900 nonrepresented . West Australia'in 1 London-on the delegation relative to the Federation of Australia; Five times Mayor of Perth.y lio .Tvas. also Colonial Secretary of West Australia from 1892 to .189-1,-and becamo i • •'? Puisne iUdge r in 1901. •- He has also been Presi- ; dent of 'the: Arbitration Court. 1

A NONCONFORMIST LEADER. ' In. Sir Eoberfc William' Perks,, a stalwart representative of Nonconformity is honoured. He ls-Hon:Treasurer of the Free Church Congress, and; holds' the same position in the Liberal League, of which'he was one of. the founders. the-Nonconformists lie took a leading part'in the debates oh the Education ■R 1 ! ' has practised as a solicitor in partner- |, hl P: with.Sir Henry Fowler .(now raised to the leerage), .and at'.tne. sanie time has-taken a prominent part in dock and railway works, belnK'a. director and partner in C. H. Walker and' Company, Limited,'contractors, and an Associate of-the Institute of Civil Engineers He a nce r Ts9' Sßnted Soutk di ™on of Lincolnshire i;Ono. of., the wost' ' interesting of ihe personalities an honours list is that of Col bir 'David.-Bruce, investigator of .sleeping sickness, who_was born m-Melbourne in 1855. Mucated he entered tho Eoyal Armv Medical Corps, in ISS3. Besides investigating sleeping- sickness, ho was director of the comamission that investigated .Mediterranean fever , of , reports and papers have been oublishedj -. Ho servod in South" Africa, includ- • ng the siege of Ladysmith, and was specially fromoted. J