PERSONAL STATISTICS.
The oldest member of Her Majesty’s Privy Council is Yicount Stratford de Redoliff, G. 0.8., aged 92 ; the youngest, H.R.H. Prince Leopold, aged 27. The oldest Daks is the Duke of Cleveland, aged 77; the youngest, the Duke of Newcastle (a minor), aged 16. The oldest Marquis is the Marquis of Donegal, aged 83; the youngest, the Marquis of Camden (a minor), aged 8. The oldest Earl in the House of Peers is the Earl of Buckinghamshire, aged 86 ; though the oldest bearer of that title is the Earl of Kilmorey, an Irish Peer, aged 92; the youngest is the Earl Russell (a minor), aged 16. The oldest Viscount is Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, aged 92; the youngest, Viscount Southwell (a minor), aged 7. The oldest Baron is Lord Mostyn, aged 85; the youngest, Lord Southampton (a minor), aged 13, The oldest member of the House of Commons is Sir Thomas Bazley, Bart., M.P. for Manchester, aged 83; the youngest, Lord Brook, M.P. for East Somerset, aged 26. The oldest Judge in England is the Right Hon. Sir Fitroy Kelly, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer Division of the High Court of Justice, aged 84; the youngest, the Right Hon. Alfred Henry Thesiger, a Lord Justice of Appeal, aged 42. The oldest Judge in Ireland is the Hon James O’Brien, of the Court of Queen’s Bench, aged 74; the youngest, the Right Hon, Gerald Fitzgibbon, Judge of Appeal aged 46. The oldest of the Scotch Lords of Session is Robert Macfarlane, Lord Ormidale, aged 78 ; the youngest, Alex. Burns Shand, Lord Shand, aged 51. The oldest Prelate of the Church of England, is the Right Rev. Alfred Ollivant, Bishop of Llandaff, aged 82; the youngest, the Right Rev. Rowley Hill, Bishop of Sodor and Man, aged 44. The oldest Prelate of the Irish Episcopal Church is the Right Rev. Robert Darley, Bishop of Kilmore, aged 80; the youngest, the Right Rev. Robert Samuel Gregg, Bishop of Cork, aged 46. The oldest Prelate of the Scotch Episcopal Church is the Right Rev. Robert Eden, Bishop of Moray and Ross (Primus), aged 76; the youngest, the Right Rev. George Richard Markarness, Bishop of Argyll and the Isles, aged 57. The oldest Baronet is Sir Moses Montefiore, aged 96; the youngest, Sir Thomas Lewis Hugh Neave (a minor), aged 6. The oldest Knight is General Sir Duncan MacGregor. K. 0. 8, aged 93; the youngest, Sir Ludlow Cotter, aged 27 “ Who’s Who in 1880.”
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Kumara Times, Issue 1118, 30 April 1880, Page 4
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