PEER AS A.B.

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 122, 17 February 1919, Page 6

PEER AS A.B.

HOW EARL DE LA UMRE UNLISTED.

Speaking at the National Liberal Club to a vote of thanks to M. Vcnizelos, the Marquis of. Lincolnshire told this story. Addressing the Greek Consul-General, he mid:, God Ahnißhty, after all, backs up the right side. You have spoken of the action of' His Majesty's Fleet. The Meet was in the Mediterranean, and lay m the Piraeus-for what reason? Not iii the. lust ot conquest, but for the purpose of doing their best, (hough hampered bv diplomacy-(lnughter)-to try and pro(eiW the down-trodden nations of tho world. And that Fleet was not composed ot one kind of man, of one creed, or' of one class. It is only an hour a?o, in t' lo House of Lords, when Sir George C.avo was going to be raised to the dignity ot tho peerage, and we were waiting for the Chancellor to lake his seat, when a messenger carno in and said to me: 'An able seaman lj-onts to speak to you.'' I # went out and saw a handsome boy, eighteen years old, and he said: *I want «-?. eo Sir 600l 'B e ' Cavc trtkins his scat. \V ill you put me on the steps of the throne 't\ (Laughter.) I said: 'Before T can give an answer, what is vour name?" He replied: 'My name is De'Ln Wurr.' "That boy." continued the Mnrouis, ■left Eton when he was sixteen, anil" enlisted i'in the Royal Navy, and for over a year he has been picking up mines. I put him on the steps of the throne, and now he has gone buck to his ship to do his duty to his God and his country (Loud cheers.) That is the kind of'moil that we breed in I his country, and whom we send to fight, for the.small nationalities of the world, to keen Ihe flag thins, and protect civil and religious liberty nil over the world." (Renewed cheers.) Earl Dn La Warr is the grandson of tli-! late Lord Brnssey, the famous maritime peer, and succeeded, to the earldom on the death of his father, the eighth earl, in 1915.