PEER AS ABLE SEAMAN

Evening Star, Issue 16992, 14 March 1919, Page 6

PEER AS ABLE SEAMAN

YOUNG EARL JUNE-HUNTING. TVi Marquis of Lincolnshire told this story at the National Libera! Club (says the London ‘Star’), when speaking on a vote of blanks to ML Venezclos: —"It is only an hour ago, in the House of Lords, when Sir George Cave wins going to he raised to lb® dignity of the peerage, and we were waiting for the Chancellor to take his seat, that a messenger came in end said to me; ‘An able seaman wants to speak to you.* , I went out and saw a handsome boy, 18 , -.•ears old, and he said; ‘I want to see Sr George Cave taking his seat. Will you put me on 'ht slops of the throne?’ (Laughter) I said ‘ Before I can give en answer, what is your name?’ He replied! ‘My name is De La Warn.”’ "That boy,” continued tho Marquis, "left Eton when he was 16, and enlisted in the Boyal Navy, and for over a year lie has b-cn picking up mine#, I put him on ihe steps of the throne, ana now he has gone buck to his ship to do life duty to his God and his country. That la the kind of men that we breed in this country, and whom we send to fight for the ginal! nationalities of the world, to keep the flag flying and protect civil and religious liberty all over the world.” Ear! Do La Warr is the grandson of a former Governor of Victoria, the late Lord Brassey. He succeeded to the earldom on ihe death of his lather, the eighth earl, ia j 1915. «.