THE GOVERNORSHIP.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1509, 3 August 1912, Page 5

THE GOVERNORSHIP.

NO APPOINTMENT YET MADE. LOUD ISLINGTON'S POPSIBLE ■' SUCCESSOR. _ The Earl of Liverpool, M.V.0., is mentionod as a possible successor (o Lord Islington as Governor of Now Zealand. Ik is an officer (Comptroller of the House-' hold) in tho Lord Steward's Department of the King's Household. Doth lie and '. his wii'o are said to be clever, but not ■ w<?rtltliV-, 'i'Jie title dates buck to 1720, tho first Larl being Charles Jcnkinsou, an English statesman, who was tho eldest sou of a colonel and grandson of Sir. Robert Jenkinson, of Walcot, Oxfordshire. The family was descended from Anthony Jenkmson, a sea captain, who died in 1611. 11m gentleman was, in addition to n tea captain, n merchant und a traveller, and was tho first Englishman to penetrate into Central Asia. Tho first Earl entered Par. liainent iu 1701 as uicmlwr for Cockermouth, and was made Under-Secretary for State, and, winning the favour of George \\}> hp became tho leader of tho "Kinips Enends in tho House of Commons. Later bo became a Low! of tho Admiralty, and then a Lord of tho Treasury. Ho was sub- " sequently Secretary at War, President of the Board oi Trade, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Ho was created Baron Hawkesbury in 1780, and Earl of Liverpool in h%. Ho died in December, 1808. He was twice married, and had a eon bv each marriage. .Tho second Earl (Robert Banks Jenkinson) was vducated at Oxford, and was a contemporary and political associate of George Canning's. Ho also entered Parliament and became Master of the Mint and loreign Secretary. He obtained the Homo Office during Pitt's Administraon. On the death of Pitt he declined the Premiership, and remained out of ofiice for a time, but in Portland's Admini Miration hp was Secretary of State for Homo Affairs. In the Perceval Ministry ho was Secretary for War and the Coionics, and in 1817 after tho assassination of lerceviil, he became Prime Minister, and held office for fifteen years. He had to resign owing to an attack of paralvsis. and died in 1828. Ho held office in limes of - • gieat trouble and depression, and. thanks largely to ' Castlercagh and Canning ms foreign policy was successful. His Home policy, however, was;not advantageous, and his Bill of pains and penalties against Queen Caroline made him vcrr unpopular, He was remarkable neither lor nautical, insight nor for broad m-iii-pathies, and after his death his Homo ' policy was, quickly reversed. Though' twice married, he had no children, and his half-brother (Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson) became the third Earl. Iho third Earl left throe daughters, so the baronetcy passed to li cousin, ■ and - - the peerage became extinct. ' In 1905'' ""' however, (lie earldom was revived in ths • person of the third Earl's grandson, Cecil Georgo Savile loljunibe, a Liberal'member of Parliament, Ho was succeeded by his son Arthur. ■...-,

The present Karl, who was born in 1870, married at the ago of 27 Annette Louise, daughter of ,lhc fifth Viscount Mouek (an Irish family). Ho was educated at Eton and tho Royal Military College,- • Sandhurst. Ho served.in South Africa in 1901-2.' He owns estates in Northamptonshire and Notts, and has a town houso at ii Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W. His recreations are hunting, shooting, ' cricket, and. raquets, and he is n member of the Naval and' Military Club. His heir is Viscount Hawkosbury.

Though the name of Lord Liverpool lias been mentioned as a successor to Lord! Islington, we have authority for stating that no appointment has fret been made. Whether ho or some other is to reecivo the appointment an announcement on tho subject may_ possibly bo expected shortly, seeing that it is anticipated that the now Governor will arrive in Now Zealand be* fore Lord Islington leaves tho Dominion.