SOCIALISTS WITH TITLES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20137, 24 December 1928, Page 12

SOCIALISTS WITH TITLES.

SIR CHARLES TREVELYAN. QUARTER OF MILLION LEGACY. [rnoM ot'ii own ronnESPoNtiEN'r.j LONDON. Nov. l.'i. Sir. Charles Philips Trevelyau, LabourSocialist M.P. for Central Newcastle, v.lio succeeded to tho baronetcy on the death of lis father. Sir George O. Trevolyan. last August. will divide ei| tally with his brother. Dr. George Maoaulay Trevolyan. tho bulk of his father's fortune of -12556.9,33. Tho late Sir George, a nephew of the famous Lo:d Macaulay, was both a man of letters and a statesman To the new baronet he left all his real and leasehold i property in Northumberland and his household and personal not otherwise bequeathed; lo Ins son (ioome, £30.000; and to his son Robert, CI 000. stating that he was already provided for under his mother's will Sir Chailes Trevelyan. who is . r .!3, has llicei Labour M.P. for Central Newcastle since 1922. He. was Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education in the Liberal Administrations from 19C8 until 1914, when he resigned as a protest against Great Britain entering the war. He was Secretary of Education in the MacPonahl Ministry. Viscount Eiinismore, son and heir of the Earl of Listowel. has decided not to use .his title. Instead he prefers to bo known as "Mr Hare" -William Francis Hare being his tamilv name. He is at Magdalen College, Cambridge. He has given instructions at the porter's lodge that any letters addressed to "Mr. W. F. Hare" are intended for him, as in future lie wishes to be known by that name.. iscouut Fnnismoi-e, who has some time been proni.nont at Canibiidge as a Socialist undergraduate, is 22 years of age. He is a member of the Socialist. Party. When it was proposed a few months ago that wbirien should be admitted to the debates of the century-old Cambridge. Union Society jt. was Viscount, Eiinismore who 'flendod eloquently that the word "ladies" Should bo added to "gentlemen" in tho rules. Tho motion was defeated.