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MR HERBERT GLADSTONE VISCOUNTY FOR AFRICA’S FIRST GOVERNOR-GENERAL. By Telegraph—Press Association- .Copyright. (Received March 2, 10.40 p.m.) LONDON, March 2. It is officially announced that Mr Herbert Gladstone, late Home Secretary and Goveruor-General-clcct of the South African Union, has been created a Viscount, and that tho Hon. Ivor Churchill Guest, recently appointed Paymaster-General, has been created a Baron. The Bight Hon. Herbert John Gladstone, Homo Secretary since December, 1905, is fifty-six yeans of age, and 'retires from politics—where he has been a worthy followor” in the footsteps of his illustrious father—to go to South Africa as his Majtidy's First Representative. lie won ids Parliamentary spurs in 18S0 in Middlesex against hopeless odds, and since 1885 has sat continuously for West Leeds-, lie has occupied posts in several Liberal Ministeries, and lias acquitted himself well. Tile lion. Ivor Guest is the eldest son of the first liaron Wimborne, and is thirty-seven real's of age. He has sat in Parliament since 11)00, when ho returned from South Africa after seeing service in the Boer war with tho Dorsetshire Yeomanry, in which he held a captaincy.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7067, 3 March 1910, Page 1
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