A BARONET IN THE POLICE FORCE.

Kumara Times, Issue 613, 14 September 1878, Page 2

A BARONET IN THE POLICE FORCE.

Amongst the “ promotions” which have recently heen announced as hav* ing taken place at .the Depot of the Royal Irish. Constabulary vte read, “ Acting Constable Sir Thomas Echlin, Bart.” “ Th% toeans ini plain words that Sir Thoroas Echlin, is now enlisted and serving ps a : comujon policeman; and sorely, it da astrajige instance of the vicissitudes of families. ' The Echlins have . been amongst. the EnglishdnTreland,"aad the aristocratic English-in-Ireliand,' for more than tyro' and adialf, as* Sir Bernard Burke reminds ,us,’ One of the family, . or the family, Or the founder of the family, came over here,, like numbers of his countrymen, to' ‘he .a Protestant bishop af the 1 timh that ’ James 1. was enriching Protestant bishoprics, colleges, and schools out- of /

bonfiscatiotts. The bish. p’s became a Baron of Kx'cl}f!quer, and the first baronet of the fatally, in 1721. From that lime ’downwards the scions of the house frequently ini ter married into the high families of their circle* and the blood of the Echliu with its heraldries and blazonries, stood high in genealogical birth, tolls. The, Case is another inWe may .observe, of the collapse land descent which are overtaking so inany“i©f the English families which -James the First planted here and enpt , Irish thrift ,and spoliacounty, ‘Kildare, Used.tqhe the fare ily residence of the Ephling. The policeman is the .seventh baronet—Freeman’sJournal.