BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Of tho; two baronies issued tU. ; to Sir Davison Dalziel is probably, on account of his long political service as Conservative member of Parliament for Bnxton, which constituency ho has representod rince 1910, except for a short interval of a few months only in 1923----24. Sir Davison is chairman of the Pullman Car • Company, and is best ! known, in England at any rate, as be- | mg tho first to introduce the motorcabs into London. Sir Gilbert Grceuall has been Sheriff of Cheshire and was president of tho | Ko^ Agricultural Society in 1925. Tho raising of Sir Bobcrt BadenPowell to the highest class of tho Host r stinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George is a most deserved honour. Ho is known all over the world as the official head, or Chief Scout, of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides' of the British Empire, of which movement ho is also the founder. Sir Bobert is now an old man of 70 years, but he was at ono time one of the most popular cavalry leaders in the British Army. The defence of Mafeking . made , him fam-
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 128, 3 June 1927, Page 7
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188BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 128, 3 June 1927, Page 7
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