Colonel Mark Lockwood, Unionist M.P. for the Epping division of Essex since 1892, is a capital raconteur, and be has told how in boyhood his mother, anxious to teach him the value of money, made him a give a full account of his expenditure. It usually worked out something like this :Postage stamps, 4d; jam, 6d ; chapel, 3d; lost through a hole in my pocket, £2 10s. At the age of nineteen Colonel Lockwood found himself an fensign in the Coldstream Guards; and some time ago he ■ discovered in his father's dairy for 1866 the following interesting entry :Mark joined the Cold streams today. I gave him .plenty of advice, and very little money.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14133, 7 August 1909, Page 3 (Supplement)
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