A BARONET IN THE POLICE FORCE.

Inangahua Times, Issue 97, 25 September 1878, Page 2

A BARONET IN THE POLICE FORCE.

Among tho promotion! wbioh Lave recontly boon imnounocd as having taken placo nt tho Plioonix Dopot of tho Royal Irish Oonßtobulnry wo road, • Acting Con* stnblo Sir Thomas Fchlin Bart,' This moans in plain words that Sir Thomas Echlin, Bart, is now enlisted and serving as a common policeman ; and surely it is 0 strange instance of tho vioissitudos ol ffirailies. Tbo Eohlins havo boon amongst tho English-in-Iroland, and tho aristocratic En.glish*in»lroland, for moro than two centuries and a half, nfl Sir Bernard Burko rnminds us. Ono of tho family, or tho founder of tho family, oamo over hero, liko nurabors of liis oountrymon to bo a Protostant bishop nt tho timo lhat Jamos I, was enriching Protestant bishoprics, colleges, and schools out of Catholic confiscations. Tho bishop's grandson became a Baron of Exohoquor, and tho first bnvonofc of tho family in 1721. From tlmt downwards, tho soions of tho houno fro* quonUy intormarriod into tho high families of their circle, and tho blood of the Echlins with its heraldries and blazonries, stood high in gonoalogical birth rolls. Tho oaso is another instance, wo may obseivo, of tho collapso and descent which aro overtaking ho many of the English families wliioh Jamos tho First plnntod bore and onricl;cd out of Iri.'h thrift aad spoliation. Itathangnn, County Kildaro, used to bo tho family rosidonoo of tho EohliuS'

i Tho polioomnn is tho sovonth baronet.