THEN AND NOW.
Now that 50 years have elapsed since Her M»je6ty r B accession, It may not be without interest (remarks the " Morning Post") to recall bow manj public men, how m»Dy members cf the two homes of Parll&ment, and how many official peis >r> »g«i »re alive to remember that eventful day. With the exception of the Duke of Devonshire, who wa« then Earl of Bnrlington, not a single doke, either of England, Scotland, or Ireland, la alive to-day. In (ike manner, not a tingle English marquis, •xoept the Marquis of Bath, survives, and he came to bis title when quite a child, en tha very day which witnessed the proclamation of Her Mejesty as Qaeen. Lords Graoard, D&rnley, Drogheda, and Nejion bad been succeeded to their respective coronets, but they were still la their minority, and therefore noable to take their seats m the House of Lord a. Lord Sydney was a member of the Bonse of Peers then as now, and bo were Lord Portman, Lord De Tabley, Lord Crew, and Lord Lokelaoe, though at the data we refer to the last-named nobl. man «U Qaiy B^ron l^Uig, and not an earl. The present LordsGrey,Mexborougb, Vet ulu» North wiok, Cotteslos Gran vi 11**, Evtraf y, Fitzwilliam, Minto, Mansfield, Oxford, and JSbury were all members of the House of Commons. The present Lord Albemarle and the Doke of Northnmberlaud had been members of the House of Commons m a preri-us Parliament, but were not m July 183?, m either House, Mr Gladstone, M> Christopher Talbot, and the Right Hon Charles Ptlbam ViUlera aro the only individuals who having been members cf the Honae of ComoDons then, hold seats In the samo assembly to-day. Sir Charles Decham Jepbsen Norreys should, perhaps, be to, this last category. a» la ho still alive, although he has long ceased to pit In the House of Commons. All the judges, all the bishops, ail the deans, who h*d been appointed to their posts by William IV, have long since passed away, and, as far as is known, only one ptrson survives irho h tvi it; hid a teat m the TJnrefoimed Parliament, never subsequently entered eivher the Hoase of Lords or the Commons, General the Hon Arthur OharUi Legge, who sat for a short time as M.P. m ihe reign of George IV. The only member of King William's Privy Council who is now alive is Lord Ebury, then Lord Robert Grosvenor, and he also is, it is believed, the only individual who, having entered the House of Commons m 1822, bai been a member of one or other Hoow of Parliament without a M&k for My 9 ***
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1677, 1 October 1887, Page 3
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446THEN AND NOW. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1677, 1 October 1887, Page 3
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