SOME HEAVYWEIGHTS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 594, 27 July 1933, Page 2

SOME HEAVYWEIGHTS

MEN OF SOLID WORTH AND EVEN MORF SOLID GlfeTH. At the old Sign of the Coffee Mill, now No. 3 St. James Street, London, theroj. are great scales, originally installed- for weighing goods, on which ; during th'e last two hundred years thousands of well-known men, and a few celebrated women, have recorded their weights. The Original of the phrase, still oc~ easionally used, that one weighs so much "in his boots" may be found, perhap's in the oldest of th'ese fecords, in whicb it is aliVays cSrefully set forth that a man was weighpd in his plain frock or his great- coat and in his boots, shoes, or thick boots, as th'e 1 cSSe fn'ight be. ' Th'ere were heavy rhen at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning 'of the nineteenth centuries who used to be weighed in' Berry's Goffee Milf two or three tirties eVery year. Their records are preserved in a Sei'ies of great volufties. One of ihe colos'sal j men of the eighteenth' century was the . Marquis of Salisbury, who, in "plain" ! ! frock and boots," in 1798, weighed i 9st 41b, Viseouftt Dudley, a quarter of a century earlier, wfts over 20 sfone.- ! ; Between; 1788 and 1800 the D'uke of i

York was weighed twenty-four fimes. ;At first he wfis 13st 101b, and afterwards went up to 14st 71b. His brother, the Duke of Clarence, at the beginning and end of the same perioct, w'eighed 11st 31b and 13st 71b. The Duke of Kent, the father of Queen Victoria, was weighed "in his . , T ->n io-IA QilV, " TKo

DOOUSj. dullt; xi, xoxtt, xoou Duke of Cambridge, ten years later, weighed lBst 81b, and tbe Duke of Argyle 15st. The Earl of Chesterfield, in 1803, was 15st 31b. Amongst the lighter-weights of tbe period were the Earl of Chatham, 11st 2ilb; the Duke of Richmond, 9s't 6«lb, and Lord Charles Bentinck, who was 9st 111b in 1796 and 11st 1131b in 1815. - - — - ' *