BRITISH PREMIERSHIP.
SIR EDWARD GREY CREATED A KNIGHT OF THE GARTER.
MAY SUCCEED MR ASQUITH
London, February 13. The King has created Sir Edward Grey a Knight of the Garter. The Daily Graphic suggests that this almost unprecedented honour to a commoner precludes Mr Asquith’s resignation and Sir Edward Grey’s elevation to the Premiership. This is distasteful to the Radicals and Labourites, but the best Liberals will welcome the elevation.
The conferring of the Garter distinction, the paper continues, indicates that Sir Edward Grey 7 commands the Sovereign’s confidence. It is significant that Mr Vaughan Nash, Mr Asquith’s private secretary, has been appointed vice-chairman of the Development Commission, and adds that Lord Haldane’s visit was intended to assure the Kaiser that Sir Edward Grey’s Premiership would not diminish the desire of the Cabinet to arrive at a friendly understanding with Germany.
Previous instances of the conferring of Garters on Commoners arc: Sir Robert Walpole in 1728, Frederick North 1772, Lord Castlereagh 1814, and Lord Palmerston 1856.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 42, 14 February 1912, Page 6
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