A Typical County Gentleman.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 April 1911, Page 3

A Typical County Gentleman.

« _ " Sir Oswald Mosley, of Folleston-on-Dove, whose attempt to induce people to eat wholemeal bread we recorded recently, js- a- typical county gentleman of the old type. "Everybody knows the squire of Itolleston as ' John Bull, and when yoir see the round and comfortable figure of a" man with ruddy and jovial face, and wide-brimmed, lowcrowned hat, of old; beaver pattern, roaming among the cattle at some agricultural show, he might have stepped straight out of some picture of Smithfield Fair in the early nineteenth century," says the Mail: He is also interested in the silk ■hat, which is fast disapearing. "Sir Oswald dislikes change, except for .- the better. 'Other men have changed their style of dress, , he said, 'but not I. My hat, for instance, is the same sort of hat my father wore, andi my grandfather 'before ..-.tf*. , . ,.