PERSONAL NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2424, 30 August 1900, Page 64

PERSONAL NOTES.

— The Earl of Nev/burgh was 82 on June 30. His lordship claims descent directly from EdAvard I, and is distinguished by the fact that in 1863 he was created a Prince by Pope Pius IX. In the late kingdom of Naples his lordship held the title of Duke of Montdragone and Count of Carniola.

— Lord CoAvper, a prince and count of the Boly Roman Empire, a title dating back nearly a century and a quarter, Avas 66 on June 11. He Avas Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1880 to 1882, and has been Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire since 1861, five years after he succeeded his father in the earldom. From his mother, the Baroness Lucas, a daughter of the first Earl de Grey, he inherited ihe Barony of Luca^. — The Earl of Yarborough, Avho AA'ill be 4-1 on June 11, has been Vice-Admiral of Lincolnshire for the past 17 yeai^, as Avell as chairman of the Lindsey quarter sessions. Up to 1886 he was a member of the Liberal parly, but he formally separated from it in that year and joined tho ranks, of the Conservatives. His title is derived from the Wapentake of Yarborough, in North Lincolnshire, Avhere he has large estates. " —Dr Talmage is now approaching his seventieth year, and it is 4-1- years since he Avas ordained. His sermons have been printed weekly for more than 29 years Avithoul a break, and are published through syndicates in 3600 different papers. The doctor calculates that in this way he addresses every week a congregation of 30,000,000 people. Tho elector had a considerable fortune left him by his first Avife, who was a successful speculator in real estate. — The Rajah of Kapurlhala, the Sikh chief who is about to revisit .London, is A r ery popular Avith Englishmen. He is an athlete and a warrior, and his territory in the Punjab brings him in £100,000 .a year. His l -we stood true to the Queen during tho m-.* v >. raid histitle, being translated, reads: '"His" Highness the Honourable and Beloved and Trusted Son of the English C4overnment, tho Rajah of Rajahs, the Rajah Jagazit Singh the Illustrious." He would like to enter the British Army, but there are difficulties in the way. — Sir Robert Ball, Director of the Cambridge Observatory and Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and C4eometry at Cambridge, Avas 60 on July 1. Sir Robert, avlio is president of the Mathematical Association and ex-president of the Royal Astronomical Society, Avas Royal Astronomer of Ireland from 1874 to 1892, and has Avritten many works on mathematics and astronomy, among them bemo- ''The F^^-- of the Sun," which is published by < *"v, no=. Limited, in their Shilling Sem t. — The Epi'l of Morley, who has been Chairman of Committee and DepuLy Speaker of the i:) ouse of LorcK since 1859, Avas 57 011 June 11. He was, as a very young man, made a Lord-m-Waiting io the Queen, an office he hold for nearly six yoart, and then became Under Secretary for War from 1880 to 1885, when Mr Childers and the then Marquis of Harlington held office in succession in Mr Gladstone*; Administration, and in 1886 became first Commissioner of "Works. — The Earl of Lovelace, Avho Avas 61 on July 2, is noteworthy for other reasons than that he is a grandson of Byron, the poet, whose daughter married the first earl, for his lordship was, as Baron Wentworth, in Avhich title he succeeded bis brother in 1862, entitled to a seat in the House of Lords during the lifetime of his father, Avho did not die unlil 1893. When the present Earl dies the titles Avill become separate again, the earldom going to a half-brother and the barony to the daughter of hia lordship. — Lord Sudelcy, who celebrated his sixtieth birthday on July 3, entered the naA'y when he A\as only 14, and by the time he Avas 20 had attained the rank of lieutenant. Ho saAV service at tho fciege of Bomavsiuid, of 3?atshan in QJliina, and San Bias in Mexico, and was gunnery-lieutenant in the Mediterranean

in 1862. In 1863 he retired from the naA'y, and after three years became a barrister, and sat as M.P. for Montgomery from 1863 to 1877. He has been a Lord-in- Waiting and Captain of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms. —Mr F. S. Jackson, the well-known Yorkshire cricketer, Avho is at the front with the Imperial Yeomanry, and has had the misfortune to be struck down by typhoid fever at the Zand River, is the second son of Mr W« L. Jackson, M.P., the former Chief Secretary for Ireland. It is of F. S. Jackson that the story is told that, when selected to play for Harrow in the great annual match at Lord's, he said he "was not pleased so much' on his OAvn account as because it might give the* guvnor a Jeg-up at "Westminster." He is a director of his father's firm, D. L. Jackson and Sons, Limited. He is uniriarried. — Vice- Admiral Sir E. H. Seymour, a cousin of Admiral Michael Culme-Seymour, Avas educated at Radley, and entered the Royal NaA'y in 1852. During the Oiimean War ha served as midshipman on board the Terrible, fought in the bombardment or Odessa, Sebastopol, and Kinbuni, and many minor engagements, and was present at the capture o£ Kertch. For these services Sir Edward received the Crimean and Turkish medals and the Sebastopol Cro&s. He was middy of the Calcutta's launch when it was sunk during tho destruction of the Chinese flotilla in Fatshan Creek, fought in the capture of Canton, and was lieutenant of the Chesapeake in the Chinese war of 1860. — The Countess of Dudley has three children, the little Viscount Ednam, heir to the title, who was born in 18S+, and two daughters, born in 1892 and 1896. Lady Dudley, who was Miss Rachel Gurney, daughter of the late Mr Charles Gurney, is extremelybeautiful and accomplished. She inherits these gifts from her mother, who was a sister of Mr Val Prinsep. Miss Gurney, Avho lost her mother at an early age, was brought up by the Duchess of Bedford. Her father was one of the Gurneys of Gurney's Bank, and when he met with financial reverse? his Avife and daughters were not too proud to open a milliner's shop, in. which the Countess of Dudley personally acted as saleswoman. ( — Captain Malcolm, _of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, has been invalided home from South Africa. He went out a magnificent specimen of humanity; he returns a living tribute to the triumphs of surgical skill owing to injuries to his leg, which necessitated upwards of a dozen operations, and the extraction of no fewer than live inches of bone. Hoav the gallant captain will get about minus so much bone is a mystery only known to the clever surgeons who operated upon him. Mr Malcolm, who is the son of Colonel Malcolm, of Wingfield, and brother of the honourable member for Stowmarket; was the felloAV-companion on his hazardous journey through China and Tibet of Captain M. S. Wellby, of the 18th Hussars, who is now in South Africa. — Sir Edwin Arnold, who is one' of the chief writers on the Daily Telegraph staff, celebiated his sixty-eighth birthday on Juno 10, having been associated Avith that paper for nearly 40 years. He is one of the few poets avlio, having won the Newdigate prize for poetry at Oxford have afterwards attained distinction as a poet, Avith his "Light of Asia." and "Light of the World," as Avell as other works in verse. He is a very distinguished man in many Avays, for he holds honours conferred on him by Siam, Japan, Persia, and Turkey, as Avell as by the Queen. He began his life as a master of King Edward's School, Birmingham, but afterwards became Principal of the Government Deccan College at Poona, Avhere he remained for about five years. Sir Edwin is a great lover of Japan, and three years ago he married a Japanese lady. — The Right Hon. George John ShawLefevre, Avho has had so distinguished a public career, celebrated his sixty-eighth birthday on June 12. To him the country owes the establishment of sixpenny telegrams, for when he Avas Postmaster-general in 1883-84- ha carried the act which has been the means or benefiting both the public and the Post Office exchequer. It Avas he Avho carried the vote in the PJouse of Commons for the arbitration, of the Alabama claims in 1868, and he was secretary to the Board of Trade from 1869 to 1871, when he carried the General Tramways Act. Among the other offices he has held under succeeding Liberal Governments, in addition to those named, ha^e been Secretary to the Admiralty, First Commissioner of Works, Avith a Feat in the Cabinet, in 1892-93, and President of the Local Govern r ment Board, Avhile in 1897 he Avas elected a member of the London County Council. — The Right Hon. Cecil J. Rhodes was 47 on July 5. His career has inspired more than one novelist with material for a book, and it must be confessed that there has been enough incident in his life for the making of a score of novels. He has naively confessed that among his recreations lis the collecting of curios, generally "with a preference for anything Dutch." If he Avere asked, he would say that he considers his greatest achievement the keeping of Beolmanaland in our hands to the exclusion of the Boers. A tendency to consumption sent him to South Africa, under sentence of death from a physician who gave him six months to live, but the climate of the country worked wonders for him, and he, in his turn, has done not a little for the country, and AA'ill no doubt do still more Avhen the Cape to Cairo scheme Avhich he originated is pufc into effect.