HOUSE OF LORDS
BECOMING AMERICANISED IMPECUNIOUS PEERS MARRY HEIRESSES REMEDY SUGGESTED BY DR. SCHILLER (United Press Association.—By Electric ; Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian i’ress Assn.—United Service.) London, November 22. The House of Lords is rapidly becoming Americanised through impecunious peers being forced to marry heiresses, generally from the United States, to restore their fortunes, so the Oxonian. Dr. F. C. Schiller, told the Royal Society’. This expedient was somewhat biologically ruinous, as the heiresses were often the last effort of a degenerate, expiring stock. Dr. Schiller suggested as a remedy that when the first holder of a peer age dies his children and grandchild ren should meet to choose one whom they regard as the worthiest successor
[Dr. Schiller was educated at Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford, and is now a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, t
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 52, 24 November 1928, Page 9
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