A NEW BARONET.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1677, 1 October 1887, Page 3

A NEW BARONET.

Of the 13 newly created baronets the oniy one who io widely known id Sir A. Borthwick, MP , the proprietor and j director of the *' Morning Post." He is himself a clever speaker and writer, and | h'»R an imm-nsa knowledge of foreign p ! t cb, but it is his wife who haa mail h»s position m the world for him. Sh* ia niece ot rhe statesman Lord Clarendon, a step- daughter of Sir George Cornwall L*wis, a Bi*.terin-law of Sir William Harcourt, and a sister of Sir T. V. L a er, tha Under Seoretay at the Foreign Office. She ia "ne of the busiest r.nd moat enorgetlo women In London society and has a honqo m Piccadilly of great' splendor, whera she organises parties to which all the great oneo of the hour are glad to go, A few years ago Sir Algernon Borthwiok reducsd hie paper from 3d to Id and the effect was to double his fortnne. It is the stupidest paper, politically, m London, but it is the monopoly of a cer Uin olais of '< attenuated personalities " relating to the aristocracy, ani when the snobooracy fouad that it could Ret this for a p.»nny, I regret to say that about 100,000 of them diaoarded the superbly managed "Stendard" for Sic Algernon Bjrth wick's n»w«lees sheet.