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Lord Westbury is a grandson of the famous Sir Richard Bethel!, who became Lord Westbury and Lord Chancellor simultaneously. Between the sharp-tongued lawyer and the father of the present peer there was no love lost. The younger BelhcJl wa? a rather troublesome customer, and his peccadillos led in the end to his father's retirement into private life. But before this came the father's appointment to the high office mentioned. He summoned his eldest eon to tell him the news.
"Richard," he said, "I have sent for you to say that Lord Campbell died last night, and that I have accepted the Marble Chair. I shall, of course, be made a peer, and at m/ decease that peerage must devolve upon, you. I have sent for you to tell you this, and further, that when at my death that peerage does so devolve, it will pass to the greatest scoundrel in hoc Majesty's clomicions."
Tho future second baron wa= not at all disconcerted. "Very deliberately ho replied : "Well, sir, considering you 11 be dead, very likely it will."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2623, 22 June 1904, Page 77
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