SEVEN NEW PEERS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 852, 25 June 1910, Page 5

SEVEN NEW PEERS.

MANY LIBERALS ELEVATED. (Rec. Juno 25, 0.35 a.m.) London, Juno 24. The following are among tlio otherhonours gazetted on the occasion of the day set apart for the celebration of the King's Birthday : — PEERS. . The Right Hon. Richard Knight Causton, l'.C., D.L., formerly Liberal M.P. for Southwark (defeated at tho general elections in January). Pay-master-General, 1905-1910; Lord of the Treasury, 189^-5; director of Sir Joseph Causton and Sons, Ltd. Sir Weetman Dickinson Pearson, first baronet (created 1894), formally Liberal member for Colchester (1895 to 1910); president of S. Pearson and Son, Ltd. Sir William Henry Holland, first baronet (created 1907); Liberal member for ltotherham, Yorkshire, since 1899; temporary Chairman of Ways and Means; also a bank director and chairman of the Fine Cotton Spinuors' Association, Ltd. Mr. Freeman-Freeman Thomas, J.Pv formerly Liberal member for Bodmin (Cornwall), and A.D.C. to Lord/Brassey when. Governor of Victoria. Has been of considerable, use socially to his party. Sir Hudson Ewbanke Kearley, first baronet; M.l'. for Devonport, and Parliamentary Secretary to tlio Board of Trade. He was born in 185G, and is Load of the .firm of Kearley and Tonge,. provision merchants.

Sir Christopher Furness, JI.P. for tho Hartlepools; ono of tho largest shipowners in the world, and one of tho richest men in the House of Commons. 110 was born at AVest Hartlepool in 1852, and is now the. moving spirit iu live of the largest shipbuilding works in the North of England, and in threo engineering concerns, in addition to which he is a colliery proprietor and ironmaster. He is also a largo landowner and employer of labour.

Tho Right Hon. Sir Walter Foster, Knight (created 1886),' P. 0., M.D., D.0.L., LL.D., J.P.; an eminent consulting physician who wont into 1 politics; was president of tho National Liberal Federation from 1886 till 1890; secretary to tho Local Government Board in tho last Liberal Ministry. BARONETS. • Mr. Alfred M. Mond, Liberal M.P. for Swansea town, is also managing director of the chemical firm.of Brunner, Mond, and Co., of Northwick. Mr. Mond was born in 1808, and educated at Cambridge. He is a director of the "Westminster Gazette." Mr. J. M. F. Fuller, M.P. for Westbury (Wiltshire), was born in 1864, and educated at Oxford. Ho the son of a well-known Liberal M.P., and a nephew of Viscount St. Aldwyn. Ho is a popular Liberal Whip. Mr. • Thomas Courtenay Theydon Warner, Liberal M.P. for Lichfield (Staffordshire), was born in .1857, and, after an unsuccessful contest at Coventry in 1885, represented North Somerset in tho Parliament of 1892-95. Ho is chairman of tho Warner Estato Co., London, and Forest Gato Railway Co., and is a landlord of about 4000 acres. Mr. Joseph Walton, Liberal M.P. for Barnsley, West Riding,. Yorkshire, is a strong Radical,, and yet an Imperialist, who believes, that "trade follows tho flag." He was born in County Durham in 1849, and commenced business in tho coal trade at Middlesboro' in 1870. Ho holds extreme views on Home Rule, and . favours all the moro advanced items of i tho Radical programme, though ho strongly favours tho fostering and expansion of colonial trade. Mr. R. L. Harmsworth, Liberal M.P. for Caithness, is tho fourth in seniority of tho well-known group of brothers of that name, but is no longer a director of tho Amalgamated Press, Ltd. He supplanted tho notorious Dr. Clark for Caithness at tho 1900 general election, and ho was one of the most active workers in the attempt to pin Lord Roscbery and Mr. Asquith publicly to Imperialist principles. He was born in IS7O. Mr. Adolf Tuck. KNIGHTS. Mr. —. Inglis, chairman of tho London Stock Exchange. , Mi-. Alfred East, A.R.A., tho landscape artist. Mr. A. T. Quiller-Couch, the author. Mr: Edward Hain, President of tho Chamber of Shipping. Mr. Macalpino, President of tho Bap- ; tist Conference. Mr. H. S. Lunn, M.D., promoter of international gatherings. GRAND CROSS OF THE BATH. The Right Hon. Sir Charles Hardingo, Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. General Sir lan Hamilton, Comman-der-in-Chief in the Mediterranean. KNIGHTS BACHELOR. Mr. Michael Thomas. Mr. M. Cullman (Transvaal). COMPANIONS, IMPERIAL SERVICE ORDER. Mr. Ross, Collector of Customs in i'iji.