THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND.

Clutha Leader, Volume III, Issue 131, 12 January 1877, Page 3

THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND.

1• On both sides oi'the -house. 'ho.-', cant claim descent from anointed kings, for,, through his ancestress, the wife of Granville, second Earl Gower, he can trace, his pedigree, rfrom the Princess ; Mary of Tudor arid Henry vlll.';" whilst his grandmother was„the^lasifre-;a presentative of a long line of belted earls whose ancestress was a daughter A ofthe Bruce.; : Notwithstanding-all this, the present Duke of ! Sutherland, is ..-un-. derstood to be deeply "Jimbued with* democratic;?; -.sympathies 1 ,'*•■ ,H;e-,;> has always been a firm friend of popular freedom, and he has earned-hriO'-honor-able reputation as the patron of oppressed' nationalities. ' '^eb there iUs**' hardly any, English,. noble., .who,. as re|- - ; gards political life, has so .sedulously hidden his light under a '"bushel;* Though' - * the! Duke of Sutherland 1 has 5 satin' both- - ;; Houses of .'Parliament; < he: has (never made a figure hi- --either.-* .-...His Grace has practicajly, ignpred. politics^ as 4ar -.at least as it is possible for one p( tHe princeliest landowners', df the couhtry to do so. He is a simple-minded,- fair, frank, handsome man, -on whom -his years sit lightly, with, .■ a ;=. youthful, generous, hear^a; cheery, ringing voice, and pleasant, honest,- _winriing ways, that endear him to all who know him. -If he'.! has* any peculiar characteristic^ it is that he is a mpdc.l.,landlord,,tbe best type of the man who.is^inspired with , the' great -..idea thatf.propertyr has its duties as well; as. its rights.,, ,-- ,- „-- -■ yy\ " - ' " * * •- • •• ■ ;