A NEW PEER.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1536, 4 September 1912, Page 7

A NEW PEER.

o REVIVAL OF A 15TH CENTURY , 'BARONY. The Committee for Privileges of the IT.oiiso of Lords c«ti July 15 concluded the hearing of the petition of Mr. Francis Burdett Thomas Money Coutts, of Stoodleigh, Tiverlon, in Devon, who claimed to bo co-hqir of the barony of Latyiner. The 'petitioner's mother was on eJdor sister of the Into Baroness Burdett-Coutts, and he was heir to the Sir , Robert Burdett estates on the death of the baroness, who had no children by her morriaco with Mr. Ashmoiul Bartlett, and wha died in 1908. He claimed to be a co-heir of the barony by direct descent from John, fourth Lord Latimcr, who died in 1577, a lineal descendant of George Kcvill, the first 'Lord Lnttmcr, who was sununoned to a Pnrliiunnit in 1431-2. The politionor is also a claimant in the pending claim to the. Enrldom of Oxford by tho Duke of.Atholl. The committee had ordered tlwt the Lntymer Peerage elnim should be heard before the Oxford Peerapo claim. , Their lord-ships, having consulted together, it was intimated that they all agreed that the claim had bepii prnvrf, nnd that n report to that effect should bo made to his Majesty by the House,

Mr. Coutts—or i.fli'd ikitymer, as lie hns now become—is little known in. society,, having preferred to lead n quiet life and to devote liis time to literary pursuits. Hβ is tho author of several books of poems, which include "The Revelation of St. Lovo tho Divine" and "Musu Yertioorbin."