PERSONAL STATISTICS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7024, 31 March 1894, Page 6 (Supplement)

PERSONAL STATISTICS.

The oldest Cabinet Minister is the Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, M.P., First Lord of the Treasury and Lord Privy Seal, aged 84 ; the youngest is the Bight Hon. Herbert Henry Asquith, Q.C., M.P., Secretary of State for the Home Department, aged 42. The oldest member of her Majesty's Privy Council is the ■• ight Hon. Sir James Bacon, Knight, aged 95 ; the youngest, the Right Hon. Lord Walter Gordon-Lennox, M.P., aged 28. The

oldest duke is the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., aged 8o ; the youngest, the Duke of Leinster (a minor), aged 0. The oldest marquis is the Marquis of Northampton, K.G., aged 75 : the youngest, the Marquis Camden, aged 21. The oldest earl is Earl Grey, K.G., aged 91 ; the youngest is the Earl of Leitrim (a minor), aged 14. The oldest viscount is General Lord Bridport, G.C.8., Lord-in-Waiting to the Queen, aged 79 ; the youngest, Viscount Torrington (a minor), aged 7. The oldest baron is Lord Don man, aged 88 ; the youngest, Lord O'l-lagan (a minor), aged 15. The oldest member of the House of Commons is the Right Hon. Charles Polham Villiers, M. P., for the Southern Division of the borough of Wolverhampton, aged '.)2 • the youngest Mr. William Shepherd Allen, M.P., for the borough of Nowcastle-under-Lyme, aged _o. The oldest judge in England is the Right Hon. Lord Esher, Master of tho Rolls, aged 77 ; the youngest, the Hon. Sir John Gorell Barnes, of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of the High Court, aged 45. The oldest judge in Ireland is the

Bight Hon. Robert Richard Warren, of the Probate, Mafrimoniai, and Admiralty Division of the High Court, aged 77 ; tho youngest, the Rigiit Hon. John George Gibson, of the Queen's Bench Division, aged 47. The oldest of the Scotch Lords of Session is the Right Hon. (George) Lord Young, aged 7-i ; the youngest, the Hon. Alexander Low, Lord Low, aged -1-7 The oldest prelate of the Church of England is the Right Rev. Richard Durnt'orJ, D.D., Lord Bishop of Chichester (who is tho oldest peer of the realm), aged ill ; the youngest, the Right Rev. Alfred George Edwards, I ).l)., Lord Bishop of St. Asaph, aged 15. The oldest prelate of the Church of Ireland is the Right Rev. Charles Graves, D.D., Bishop of Limerick, aged 88 ; the youngest, tho Most Rev.

Robert tiamnel Gregg, D.D., Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All

Ireland, aged 59. The oldest prelate u f the Scotch Episcopal Church is the

Right Rev. Hugh Willoughby Jermyn, D.D., Bishop of Brechin and Primus, aged 73 ; the youngest, the Right Key. James Robert A. Chinnery-Haldane, Bishop of Argyle and the Isles, aged 52. The oldest baronet is the Rev. Sir John Warren Hayes, of Newlands Arborfield, Berks, nged-34 ; the youngest, Sir Richard Vincent Sutton (an

infant), aged 3. The oldest knight is Admiral Sir Lewis Tobias Jones, G.C.8., aged. 96 ; the youngest, Sir Henry Beyer Robertson, of Pale, Merionethshire, aged 31.—' Who's Who in 1891.'