Who is "Teddy Wyles"?

Otago Witness, Issue 2387, 30 November 1899, Page 67

Who is "Teddy Wyles"?

Tho practice of applying nicknames ramifies through all classes. No one, not even tho highest in tho land, escapes a penalty, which is not seldom a proof of esteem. As a rule, the nickname is a mark of goodwill, and grwt folk may bo nnsr>l«d thereby. How many, I wonder. kiio\» uh;H fiu-v ire i^U.ul' (remarks the Club Cv tu-'-er in rIVDi-,).r IVDi-,). Probably the Queen ha Ir-r.'t by un '}•>,'■ through our Kipling- vci t tku . i! th-- ujl tho army and further, i'vj is. "Thn Y.'u'o*., ' hut has thn Hair .Apparent lear:.!. vet tiial to

the crowd he is invariably known as "Teddy Wylcs"?The fact was only brought home to me the other day when I saw his special carriage at Victoria- Station, waiting to run him down to Portsmouth, and Cowes. "Whose carriage? Why. Teddy Wyles's," said the railway porter I asked, pitying my ignorance, and then X remembered the shouts I had heard on more than one racecourse. " 'Teddy Wyles ' wins." Would Lord Salisbury again, grave and dignified, who never sees ajoko, laugh if he was told that a flippant and irreverent aristocracy has christened him "Old Sarum"? It is a name nevertheless, that fits him exactly, for he has something of the rugged, but venerable look of the ivy-grown ruins that overlook the city from which the Cecils take the title of Salisbury.