FIFTY BUSY YEARS
PEER'S GOLDEN WEDDING.
, "In my long and active political and official-.career I have had few busier moments, and certainly noine more pleasant, than my activities of the last few days/'* The 1 speaker was the veteran Marquis of Aberdeen and Tcmair who, ok the eve of his golden wedding recently, wxis delving jinto sweet mem-
ory "a store ' • • , Lord and Lady Aberdeen celebrated their oO years of happy married life by a unique UiEchuon. party at-27 Grosvenor square. The house, which was lent by the present occupiers, was built by Lord and Lady Aberdeen for their first home.
Despite his SO years, Lord Aberdeen still leads a remarkably active life, and together with Lady Aberdeen, who is the president of the Canning Town Women's Settlement, taKcs a keen interest in social welfare wqrk. "I shall be glad when I am able to retire again into private life." said Lord Aberdeen, to an interviewer, who found him busily engaged with his secretary clearing off a mass of correspondence. "'This golden wedding of ours is quite as serious an affair as our real wedding 50 years ago, for w\3 have been overwhelmed with presents and kind wishes from innumerable friends, many of whom we have not beeto for years. It is pleasing to ' know they still think of us."
; Drawing; cui his reminiscences, Lord Aberdeen s&jrl he still had vivid memories of theVflrst time he saw Queen Victoria, wheh/Xs a five-year-old boy, his mother took a private fam *ily audience at Palace. "My Parliamentary added
j Lord Aberdeen, ." began as [ as 1873, when I made my first speech in tike Hoiuse of Lords, but it was not until 1880 that I 1 definitely joined the Liberal Party, after having been ono of the guests of Lord and Lady Rosebery at Dalmeny on the 'occasion of Mr. Gladstone's historic first Midlothian campaign. " One of the great privileges and joys of our life in those days was our close friendship with Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone, and between 1882 and 1893 they were our frequent week-end guests at our houses near Hendon and Dollis Hill. They used to come down on Friday night after tire Commons had risen, and it was one of Mr. Gladstone's peculiarities that, no matter how late the hour, his first request was a cup of tea to be made by myself."
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Shannon News, 24 January 1928, Page 2
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394FIFTY BUSY YEARS Shannon News, 24 January 1928, Page 2
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