A FAMOUS STATESMAN.
A FATHER AND HIS BOY. Many years ago a gentleman requiring certain premises in a provincial city approached the agent, but being unable to come to terms, asked for an interview with the landlord, a peer of the realm.
“Well,” said the agent, “I will arrange an interview, but you will not be able to get better terms. You see, his lordship has a son of whom he expects great things. The youth shows much promise, and his father thinks he is going to make a name and a reputation, and in order that he may have no money cares he is conserving his resources and making the estate produce as much as possible.” In the end the peer held out for the high terms. He was Lord Scarsdale, and the young man who showed such promise was Lord Curzon, who died recently as a British Cabinet Minister, and had been Viceroy of India and Chancellor of Oxford University.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4933, 1 February 1926, Page 4
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162A FAMOUS STATESMAN. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4933, 1 February 1926, Page 4
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