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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 478, 10 April 1909, Page 6

A picturesque link with the past i'b snapped by the death of. that great noble, Thomas William Coke; K.G., second Earl of Leicester, tho owner of Holkham Hall and a vast agricultural estate in Norfolk (says tho "Standard of Empire"). In some respects Lord Leicester's record was unique. He was eighty-seven years' of ago when lie died, and tho son of a man born in the year 1754; so that the lives of father and

son cover moro than a century'nnd a half. It is startling to remember that in the- year 1909 there was an Englishman alive whose father was a schoolboy before Napoleon was bom That father might, and probably did, speak to many persons who had known Swift, Pope, the great Duke of Marlborough, and Queen Anne. The first and second Earls of Leicester were both men of exceptional physical vigour maintained .in advanced age. The lato peer was born when his father was seventy, and he also had a son after ho had passed that ago. Ho had eighteen children altogether, and an interval of fifty years separated the birth of his eldest and his youngest child. Lord Leicester was a survival from the past in many ways. Ho belonged to-that class of English landowners who were essentially country gentlemen. Ho did not enter politics; ho hated fashionable society; he seldom oatno to London; ho did not travel abroad. Ho lived on his Norfolk estate, and devoted himself to the management of bis farms and flocks and herds. Ho was "a lord of fat prize oxen and of sheep, and -ho took his relaxation with a gun among tho turnip fields." Tlicro are not many liko him loft in tho English peerage. Easter services of the Church of God Tabernacle, 0 Crawford Street, arc advertised in this issue.

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