THE BRITISH CABINET.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 67, 2 November 1911, Page 7

THE BRITISH CABINET.

REDISTRIBUTION OF PORTFOLIOS.

T 1 10 following details should ho of interest in connection with the recent redistribution of portfolios in the British Cabinet:—

Mr Walter Ruuciman is a first-class business man, with a head for-finance. He has made yachting his special sport. By descent ho is a Scotsman, by birth a Tynesidcr. Wiion only 28 ho gained a notable victory over Mr Winston Churchill (then a Conservative) in a by-election for the Oldham seat, ins fellow Liberal hi the success being Mr A . Einmott. ' At eodege he greatly distinguished himself; ho is a Cambridge man Mr Winston Churchill, eldest son of Lord Randolph Churchill, lops played a bright part in politics. "No; public man of cur time has crowded so much into fo short a space.” Born in .187-1, ..nd educated at ILarrn.v and Sandhurst, lie entered the Army as a lieutenant in the 4th Queen’s Own Hussars. He saw service (as a volunteer with the Spanish forces in Cuba) with the Malakand Field Force, and in the Tirah Campaign, and in the Sudan (being present at the battle of Omdurman). hi the South African war he acted as a war correspondent. At the general election of 1900 he entered Parliament, and quickly pushed ins way to the front. Mr Reginald McKenna has sat for West Monmouthshire since 1895. He is recognised as “a first-class lighting man,” his reputation being Parliamentary rather than popular. After leaving college he gravitated to the Bar, being called in 1887. His first official position was Financial Secretary to the Treasury; then he became Minister of Education; later going to the Admiralty as First Lord. In all his offices he has been a hard worker. Mr Francis Dyke Acland is the eldest son of the Right Hon. A. H. Dyke Acland, who was vice-president of the council on Education in Lord Rosebery’s Government, and a grandson of tiie late Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, one of the most esteemed of the old-fashioned West-Country Liberals. Ho was educated at Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford, and entered the House of Commons.

Mr Pease, born in 1860, is a son of the late Sir Joseph Pease, M.P., and a director of the great firm of Pease and Partners, and chairman of Wilsons, Pease and Co. He entered Parliament in 1892, his first reward being a place, as Junior Lord, in the Treasury. Mr Hobhouse, Liberal M.P. for Bristol East, is the eldest soil of Sir Charles Parry Hobhouse, Bart. Born in 1862, ho became a member of Parliament in. 1892.

Mr T. McKinnon Wood, 8.A., is a Londoner- by birth, horn in 1856, and educated at Mill Hill School and University College, London. In 1906 lie secured a seat in Parliament. He has written extensively for the Encyclopaedia and reviews. Mr Whitley is' one of the leading cotton spinners of Halifax. He has borne a conspicuous part in public work. Boi\n in 1866, fie was educated at Clifton College and the University of London (8.A.). In 1907 he became a Liberal Whip and a Junior Lord of the Treasury.

Lord Lucas, who succeeds Earl Carrington as President of the Board of Agriculture, is 85 years of age. Prior to becoming Under-Secretary for the Colonies, fie. was Under-Secretary for War.