A CENTENARIAN.
(The oldest inhabitant of Hampton (Court Palace, Lady Georgina Grey, I entered her hundredth year on Febru- ! ary 18. Lady Grey, who is in wonder- [ ful health and retains all her faculties, is the daughter of the second Earl ' Grey, the famous Reform statesman. No less than fifteen children were born 5 to Earl Grey, ten sons and five j. daughters, the eldest of the former, the present Earl, being the wellj known Chartered Company's administiator. Like father, like daughter; j i the newest aristocratic centenarian is ■a lady of the fine old Whig type, ' punctiliously honourable and highminded, and devoted to the constitutiou and to popular liberty as her father understood them. It is said D that the curious picture was witnessed of the father and children enteiing into endless disputations, during j which the children addressed their parent by his Christian name !
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 89, 10 April 1900, Page 3
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146A CENTENARIAN. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 89, 10 April 1900, Page 3
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