TWO NEW BARONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20306, 13 July 1929, Page 11

TWO NEW BARONS.

EMINENT KING'S COUNSEL

FORMER LIBERAL MEMBER

British Wireless. RUGBY, July 11. The King has conferred a Barony of tho United Kingdom upon Sir William Warrender Mackenzie and upon Sir George Croydon Marks.

Sir William Mackenzie is an eminent King's Counsel, and an authority on local government and licensing laws. Sir Croydon Marks, who was for 18 years a Liberal member of tho House of Commons for North Cornwall, is a wellknown consulting engineer and patent expert.

Tho membership of the House of Lords is now about 720, compared with 615 in the House of Commons. Tho titles which became extinct in 1928 were those held by Viscounts Cave and Haldane and Barons Buckland, Dalziel, Eversley, Lambourne and Strathclydo. By death of tho Marquis of Lincolnshire tho marquessate, with tho Carrington earldom and tho Wendover viscounty, became extinct a'lso. The Father, or Dean, of tho House is still the Earl of Coventry, born in 1838, ,vho succeeded his grandfather in 1843, and his heir is his grandson, born in 1900, whoso father died two years ago. But tho House's oldest member is Lord North, who is now in his 93rd year, having entered tho House just 69 years after Lord Coventry. The youngest Peer is now tho Earl of Gainsborough, born on October 24, 1923. Tho large number of minor peers, 26, is measurably owing to war casualties.