Lord Knutsford.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 6499, 30 April 1888, Page 2

Lord Knutsford.

(London Correspondent.) Sir Henry 'Holland, the popular Secretary of State for the Colonies, who has just been made Lord Knutsford, is a man of singularly refined and genial countenance; So elastic in the step, and so smartly clothed the tall spare figure, that one can -with difficulty realise that the latest addition to our new nobility has seen threescore and two summers. His father, says the Star, was the celebrated traveller and ladies' doctor; so the young Henry had a good start in life. He was originally pnt to study for the bar j and it is a curious fact that Mr Holland and Mr (now Viscount) Cross should have started life together, and are now found in the same Cabinet. They occupied the same set of chambers in Harcourt Buildings, overlooking Temple Gardens. A story is told that at their installation therein the young lawyers decided to giye a tea party. Muffins and toast were provided ad lib. ; but each gnesb was asked to bring at least one pot of jam, which w»» to be left on the premises. Needless to say the invite was gladly responded to, and the future Cabinet Ministers started on their career with jam enough to sweeten their lives for many a day to come. Baron Knutsford is somewhat fortunate in the matter of his social and private relationships. His wife is a sister of Sir George Trevelyan. He has six children surviving, his two daughters being married, and also two of his sons— one to a daughter of Sir Wilfrid Lawson, and another to a sister of Lord Ashbumham. When he came into the baronetcy he inherited a large fortune ; for it is said to bo the rule of the English Courts not to make a medioo a baronet unless he settles £4000 ayearonhisson,and old Sir Henry had been ia a to make a still larger provision thantSris. The new baron first entered the House\of Commons for Midhurst in 1874, under an order issued by Lord Egmont, who was then patron of that now defunct borough. liord. Knutsford has been twice married.