GAME-HUNTING PEER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21542, 14 January 1932, Page 5

GAME-HUNTING PEER

HEIR TO TAKE TITLE. Doubt as to whether the heir of th* fourth Earl of Listowel, whose death oc» curred recently at Peamore, near Exeter, at the age of 65, intends to adopt the title has been disposed of. Intimation has been given of the fact that the heir. Viscount Ennisniore. who when an undergraduate at Cambridge three years ago, caused it to be announced that he had decided not to use the. title of viscount, mid wished to be known as Mr William Francis Hare, had dropped the idea of a perpetual designation as plain “ Mr.” He will in due course take his seat in the House of- Lords as Baron Hare in the peerage of the United Kingdom. The earldom is an Irish peerage. The lute carl died at the residence of Sir Trehawks and Lady Kekewich, at Peamore, where he was taken ill at a shooting party. Benowned as a great traveller and big game hunter, he possessed a wonderful collection of trophies at Oxton House, Kenton, his Devon seat. He also had great enthusiasm for needlework. He exhibited with the Royal Amateur Art Society, where his work attracted the admiration and envy of women visitors. _ ... Lord Listowel was Richard Granville Hare, eldest son of the third earl, whom he succeeded in 1924 in, his Irish peerage, and in the United Kingdom barony of Hare. . To account for his disinclination to take the title the earl’s eldest son' gave it out that he objected to the cervility given to a man of title, and that a courtesy title gave an unfair advantage. Speaking in a debate at the Cambridge Union, “Mr Hare” was the proposer ot a motion —seconded by the late Mr A. J. Cook, the miners’ secretary—that this House, believing the present constitution of society to be inefficient and immoral, cannot hope for peace in industry. In his speech he said that it # was because of the existence of an unjustly privileged class that half the national income was enjoyed by one-seventh of the community. _ „, Following this, “Mr Hare became one of the founders of a friendly society called “Neighbours, Ltd.” Its purpose was described as being for the administration of the funds of wealthy men among the poor. “Mr Hare” said he proposed to live in a bed-sitting room in London on £o a week, and to give all his available resources to ‘ Neighbours, Ltd.’ ” All these ideas were regarded as finally swept away when the new ea’rl’s brother told an inciuirer, “Mv brother dropped the name of ‘W. F. Hare’ when he left Cambridge. The whole family wish it to be made clear that he will definitely take the title.”