THE NEW LORD ROSEBERY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20918, 7 January 1930, Page 11

THE NEW LORD ROSEBERY.

A NEWER TITLE. Unusual procedure marked the Intro--5? w Eari of Rosebery (formerly Lord Dalmeny) to the House of Lords. i .i^w He was Introduced as the Bari of Midlothian, and had as his sponsors Eari Beauchamp and Earl Stanhope, and the entire ceremony of a peer’s first entrance to the Lords, with the presence of Garter King at Arms, the Earl Marshal and the Herd Great Chamberlain, was observed. This was due to the fact that the lata -Eari of Rosebery, although he held the title of Midlothian for many years, was already a peer when the title was created, and was never introduced as the holder of the higher rank. The Earldom of Rosebery is a Scottish peerage, conferred so long ago as the accession of Queen Anne. Scots peers do not, of course, sit in the Lords unless elected by their colleagues to do so. The fourth earl, however, was in 1828 a baron of the United Kingdom, which gave the holder henceforth the hereditary right to sit in the Upper Chamber. In 1911 the late peer was created an earl in the United Kingdom! peerage, and henceforth he sat in accordance with this higher rank. The present earl is thus the first Earl of Midlothian to- take his seat as such, and as such he will sit. " . ===a»