EARL OF EGMONT

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 21 March 1929, Page 5

EARL OF EGMONT

TAKES POSSESSION OF ANCESTRAL HOME. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph . Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, March 19. Tire new Earl ol ; Egmont to-day formally exchanged his Calgary ranch for the castle home of the Egmonts in Hampshire. The earl wore the same suit, overcoat, and cloth cap in which lie landed in England. He at first appeared doubtful concerning his reception at the castle, because lie had no personal acquaintance with the late earl, who was a distant cousin of the dowager countess, who is still in residence at the castle. At 10 o’clock in the morning a luxurious motor-car arrived at the small hotel where the earl stayed overnight. The agent for the estate introduced himself, and a few minutes later the earl, in the same voluminous cloth cap, and his young son drove to the castle. The butler received the newcomers at the door and conducted them to the drawing-room, where the dowager countess received them. The new Earl of Egmont, formerly Frederick J. T. Perceval, is 56 years of age. He- is a distant kinsman of the late earl and was farming in Canada when he succeeded to the title. He is married to the daughter of a Montreal resident and they have one son. He was only distantly related to the ninth earl, who was born in New Zealand, and who died in England on Jauary-11. Mount Egmont was named by Captain Cook after the second earl, a* prominent politician in the time of George II and from 1761 to 1766 First Lord of the Admiralty.