FAMOUS MEN OF THE DAY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 94, 20 April 1912, Page 10

FAMOUS MEN OF THE DAY.

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An impoitant part in last year's Coronation ceremonies, wa^ played by the Lord Great Chamberlain, Earl Carring;ton,- who has just been eieated Marquis^ of Lincolnshiie on letiring from the' Cabinet. He is an agricultural expert, and a &uppoilcr of the smaJl holdings movement, which he has carried out ei•teneively on his own estates. Tho Marquis was Governor of Nert South Wales in the years 1885-1900. 1

Though Lord Halsbury was the leader of the "No Surrender" Party in the fight on the Veto Bill the or ganiser of the fight was Lord Willoughby do Broke. It was he who prepared the plan of campaign, and arranged the historic banquet to Lord Halsbury) when the members, of the "No Surrender/ Party, as was smartly said, "dined in the last ditch." Those were stirring times, and there remains a memento of. a. remarkable episode of political history in the foundation of the Halsbury Club.

* There Was^ it' is now currently stated. no need fbiS the ''threatened wholesale' creation 1 of peers' to ensure the passing of the Parliament Bill last year. There are people who 6ay that the whole thing was bluff, and that, even if the House of Lords had proved obdurate, the peers would never have been made 5 but it was freely stated tihat the Chief Government Whip, the Master of Elibank, had prepared a list of gentlemen ready and willing to be sacrificed for their party. The Master of Elibank (Alexander William Charles Oliphant Murray), who is the eldest son of the tenth Baron Elibank, has represented Midlothian (Mr. Gladstone's old constituency) since 1900.

- To be successful, a party whip must be popular 1 wh.li the 1 members of his party. Lord Balcarres, who succeeded Sir Alexander Acland-Hood as Chief Conservative Whip, possesses that most ■esaential qualification for the post, as well as a number of others. He is such a g-eneraL favourite that oven Ministerialists would wish him s-nccebß if that did not mean injury to their own side. Ho site for the Chorley Division of Lancaehire.

Mr. Murray Macdonald (sometimes erroneously spoken of as Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald, the Labour Leader in theHouse of Commons), is the most prominent of the group of economists in the House of Commons who are anxious that the Government should reduce the Navy Estimates instead of increasing them by .millions every year. He is quite as anxious as anybody else that Britannia •should continue to rule the waves, but thinks she might do it for less money. He wants her to cut down her own expenditure, whether other Powers follow her example or not.