A BABY ADMIRAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 98, 22 October 1904, Page 13

A BABY ADMIRAL.

• The search for the bodies of the victims of the terrible tragedy on Lough Neagh recalls the fact that the Hereditary High Admiral of the Lake is a baby in arms. The infant Marquess of Donegal is the officer in question, and he inherits an office created in Elizabethan days when it was necessary to maintain a naval force on the lake to keep in subjection the people of Tyme, Deny, Armagh, and Antrim. The position of Lord High Admiral was then no sinecure, and its holder had to fight for bis supremacy of Lough Neagh. But nowadays, neither emoluments nor duties attach to the office, so that the baby admiral may remain in his nursery undisturbed. His father,^ it will be remembered, married in his eighty-first year, and when he died the present Marquess was six months old. The Marchioness was Miss Violet Gertrude Twining, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and at the time of her marriage to the eighty-year-old Marquess she was twenty. Rather a curious sequel attended the birth of the little heir. In 1890 a policy was taken out against further issue being born to the MaTquess. Premiums to the amount of £131 5s were paid. Then came the baby, and consequently £2500 for the prudent person who had speculated. — English Weekly.