A " GRAND OLD MAN."
The true inheritor of the title "The Grand Old Man" — in a non-political sense I—is,1 — is, without doubt, tho Earl of Wemyss, who was eighty-nine years old last month, and is still as robust and hearty as a man of half his years. The secret of his longevity is twofold. He has always been strenuous and sincere. He tried to reform tho "slackness" of the Upper House — and, in a measure, succeeded. He wds, and is, a noted rifle shot, an earnest and practical anti-Social-ist, a convincing newspaper controversialist, and an ardent player of golf. Not content with the activity of a young man, combined with the experience of a Nestor, Lord Wemyss, 'after he had attained the L£3 of four score, turned his attention to motoring, tind soon became' an expert. It is related of him that his chauffeur failing to remedy a flight defect, he crept under the car, eighty-nine years and all, and in ten minutes put thn mechanism in order, and diove the cjr forty miles without turniuc a hair.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 78, 28 September 1907, Page 13
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178A " GRAND OLD MAN." Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 78, 28 September 1907, Page 13
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