NONAGENARIAN PEER

Evening Star, Issue 20571, 25 August 1930, Page 12

NONAGENARIAN PEER

FATHER OF INDIAN VICEROY

Viscount Halifax, father of the Viceroy of India, Loi'd Irwin, tho ‘‘ grand old man of Anglo-Cafcho'licism,” and an intimate boyhood friend of King Edward, was ninety-one recently. Although his walks are a little shorter, and he can no longer ride to hounds, Lord Halifax is still surprisingly active. “ I am very well indeed, surprisingly well,” ho said at his homo at Hicklctou Hall, Yorkshire. Charles Lindiey Wood, as ho was then, was an intimate friend pf King Edward, and his favourite playmate when the King was a boy at Windsor. Ho was one of the six young men chosen by Queen Victoria to bo companions of tho Prince at Oxford, and when undergraduate days were over Lord Halifa.x was a frequent visitor at Court. During King Edward's reign he was for some time Groom of tho Bedchamber, but he resigned to become president of tho English Church Union. Lord Halifax’s advocacy of tho church is well known, and, in spito of advanced age, ho still takes a keen interest in the trend of modern religious thought. Thoro is a beautiful chapel in tho hall, and Lord Halifax attends service there each morning. The hall ch-plain is also vicar ot the village church, which stands at tho end of tho grounds, and tho Veteran peer goes there twice each Sunday. He has lavished much care and money on tho church, which is beautifully ornamented, and the green walks outside are neatly kept.