A CURIOUS QUESTION.
In connection with Lord Milner's Peerage, a curious question is raised by the New Age. Hia Lordship's grandfather was a German merchant at Neuss, who married a German lady, nee Von Rappard. In 1830, his son Karl was born. Karl received his education at Bonn, Giessen, and Tubingen, taking his degree of D.Med. at the last-named place in 1856. He practised as a doctor in London from 1861 to 1867. In that year he returned to Tubengin, and became " Lektor der englischen Sprache " at the University there, and in 1872 " Ausserordentlicher Professor," in which year he married a German lady, his first wife having died in 1869. The question consequently arises whether Lord Milne* is an English subject by birth, or whether he has been naturalised. There is a statute of William and Mary which divests the Sovereign of all right to create a naturalised subject a Peer. It was passed because William was flooding the Peerage with Dutchmen who had been naturalised Englishmen. It does not appear ever to have been repealed. Unless Karl Milner (says Labouchere in Truth) was naturalised during his brief residence in London, his son would have been born a German subject. If so, and the son was naturalised, he cannot be created a Peer.
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Feilding Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 17, 19 July 1901, Page 2
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