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FAMOUS MEN IN MEMORY TEST.

WHEN WINSTON CHURCHILL DEFACED THE WALLPAPER. Mr Lloyd George has a vivid memory of an event that happened before he had seen his second birthday. "My fatber had died," he says. "Our little home in Pembrokeshire had to he broken up, for my mother was left almost penniless. And I can still see myself standing at the gate and watching the men carrying off our poor 'household ; goods' with a feeling of strong and impotent anger that they should dare to do such a wicked thing. From the date on which this happened I know that I conld not have been two years old." ■ His First and Last Sermoh. Mr Lloyd George has no monopoly among politicians of such abnorxnally early memories; for Sir Rob. ert Horpe, formerly Chancellor of the Exchequer, was only the same age when ,a little sister came to his home. "I can remember the incident quite well," he says, "and also my feeling of resentment at the stranger's arrival." Sir John Simon's earliest recoliection is of staiiding on a chair in his father's study and preaiching to an imaginary audience, for he had chosen an occasion when the study was empty. As ill-luck would have it, however; he forgot how restrictI ed and unstable his pulpit was; and, I coming too near the edge, the chair | overbalanced and his eloquence j j came to an ingominious close in a j ; succession of howls which quickly ! ; brought help. "That," says Sir John. j "was my first and last sermon. And ; at the time, I have been told, I ; coukl not have been three years ! old." i Mr Winston Churfchill's first re- j collection is associated with Blen- ; heim Palace, the seat of his grand- : j father, the seventh Duke of MarJ- i i borough. The house has consider- ; j ably over a hundred rooms and a ■ ! hewildering numher of staii'cfases, . Winston, who at the time had reached the age of two years and a few inonths, had falcen into his | adventurous head to tpddle off j alone on a journey of exploration. S An hour passed — two hours — and I the child was nowhere to be seen. i The household became alarmed at I his continued ahsence; search par. ! ties were despatched in all direcI tions dnd at last the embryo statesI man and artist was discovered dei facing the wallpaper of a remote ' room with pencil drawings. Lord Birkenhead's earliest recoilection is a painful one — that of tohome on a tea-tray, with an "albogganing down the stairs of his mighty crasli" at the bottom. .Sir William Orpen says: "I have a very clear recollection of an incident that happened when I was barely two. I was out in a pram with my nurse when the latter stopped to talk to a policeman of her- acquaintance — rnuch tp my alarm, for in my childhood I was always frightened of policemen. I remember how relieved I was when the conference came to an end." Earl Ilaig still recalls the pride he felt when he wore his first tartan frock in honour of j;is third birthday in 1864,

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North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17169, 28 March 1927, Page 7

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FAMOUS MEN IN MEMORY TEST. North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17169, 28 March 1927, Page 7

FAMOUS MEN IN MEMORY TEST. North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17169, 28 March 1927, Page 7

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