The Earl of Durham.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 11 April 1890, Page 2

The Earl of Durham.

The present Earl, who has a twin UfamttV) was born in 1855, and such ceeded to the title 1 id 18tf0. At Eton, where he was " fag "id Lord Harris, he obtrined the nickname of " Jaoko." But even before he be- ' oriole a rttemliei' of the great school He had received" tlie baptism of spor: Ur Wi'atitig His leg while' flawing the harriers over" file" t)athnm Wile, and had often !iu :terl with t!ie >Tor f thumberland hounds. Educated for the Army, he obtained a commission in the Coldstrer.m Guards, which he resigned on the death of his father. Itt 1080 h& t started for India in a sporting trip, tot the excitement of tiger and eiephant hunting, and after enjoying this big sport tot txx months, returned .ta.Fngland and married. The 1 marriage w<W »# a happy one, the tfflldfl Ib^ng p* b: ief duration; but as this, yrfiJLW ba^py to say, ia not a Sociei^ jouvn l.v.we the sanctities of puvate life or ripping up oldscanda s; -The Services which the Lambtons had rendered to the Libet.-al parfcr were no doubt the reason* that toi ; d (Jr^nvill© selected so you^g a noblemm in 1883 to move the Address in the Lords. "" No one could powibly do it better," said «' Granny," " tban a maH in whosa veins runs the blood of Lambfcon, Gn-.y, and Russell, to say ■; nothing of the Duke of Abercorn, the best reader of fam?ly prayers ia the king, dom." :

linrrfediately upon refusing, txtm h"e lnd an tour Lord Durham, as beer me oae of his race, set) up as table, and; was elected a membe .' of the Jockey Club. His colours were first at Durham on Honeycomb ; nth« Ap il of 1881. He cannot, up to present, he numbered among the leviathans of the Turf. H's greatest winning year was 18S7, when he took seventeen rfces, \alued at over £8,000. It was the famous speech at the Gfimoi'aek dinner in the Decembor of 1887 that first prominently brought his name before the public, and tweuty four hours after it was uttered the While sporfcing world was ring'nj with it. Such a bombshell had* not been fired with'n iiS: citadel many a day. That it was np meva unQon,sidejref outburst sent forth on the wings of champagne, no mere^ia^erf dinner , explosion of gas, as 'sb^Ki'y. people at the time supposed it, to be» but a deliberate and we;U: weighed; utterance, there is* now, Ui<}jte"dQf&li. r Wj^ftt h? openly said at York has beeu the common talk of th« racing world for months previously, and, to use hs own wordi, "Idid not'dng bntfo-mulato in public as i accusation that had been made over and over r^ain in p ivate. I neveV .'niehded i ) confine nay imputa: ions to iho in-aud-out unain.7 ol one ho:s>i.; . Jait 'eked fcen, I still attack, aud shall attack t j the end, the 'genrral policy pursued by the guiding sprit of a pa*tiou"ar s able. Ln % d Uuirh'.rjo'sprmcip.i res dence is b 'll.Bitvialed on t»>e same o-'.i^ that the Lambton's have made tbeir homes f^om ihe .vrelti. ceat vy. ?:h« feuda erse from which ■ John d ■• Lainb-Qu' i sii; fo fc!i to !:iV. -h" Lam^tou Wbi-ih, h s of en* ne, {passed a\vay g-nerations ago. aud ! the old manor.house of tbe Tudor times that' took its pace is now deserted Nearly ;a «K-nti:i'y bi ::k, a sp'endid pile was v ; s. d :.om lljie phiiia. of t!ie famous nrchittct Joseph '■Uonoihi, "a\id of An^e'ica Kaufman ; it is built in the Got hie style, svit-i lbftv tar cis, flvlng buttresses, battivuithls, missive cbiin' neys, mul'ioned windows. Lnmbton Park i» purely an oinis in tbe bleak and barren wi der.T ss of fc^e ooaly No;th. The 1 inansicu stands on a high te.vace above the River Woar. in the nrdst of a noble pa:k BUic!.3ed witb fine cud imcient timber, while the gardens tesiify as to what oa\i be aecomplisbed even in such a sterile audiigorouSjCimfue as this. Lord Durham is great at farming. A Sp'endid breed of Highland tnfctle may be seen gutzing under the oaks and elms, tod, his 4,000 acres of land produce t|e { hea\ iest , crops reaped throughout, ,#».. county. But it is from coal mines that the chief of his vfe'ftlth is •derived. He pays over £18,000 in wa^es every fortnight to iiiis m'ners, among whom he is imr me'nsely pfrtpu^ar, al 1 . as well as his l)eing 'well ca ed fo 1 ;. -iiord f Durham is still n youn.a: mflnj anA vtb f "lly expect -to see him ere-'lort 1 ?- take, a prominent posit'oa iv the sporting world. !Vceißed Victuallers Gazette.