LORD HALDANE'S AMBITION

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 23, 20 September 1912, Page 7

LORD HALDANE'S AMBITION

The appointment of Lord Haldano to succeed Lord Lorebura as Lord High Chancellor is the actual realisation of a great lawyer's boyish ambition. It is no secret that the man who has, during the last six years, performed wonders in the re-organisation of England's army marked out the Lord Chancellorship for himself when he was a student at a Scots University. It was suggested, when Sir Henry Camphell-Bannerman formed his Administration in 1905, that Mr Haldanc, as ho was then, should be Lord Chancellor; but "Bob" Reid, as Lord Loreburn is still known to his intimates, in spite of his elevation to the peerage in 1906, was chosen, and Mr Haldane went to k .the War Office. By taking Lord Loreburn's place on the Woolsack Lord* j Haldane attains the highest and.most coveted of legal appointments. He exchanges a salary of £SOOO, which he received as War Secretary, for one of £IO,OOO, and a yearly allowance of £SOOO whonever he is put of office. With the exception of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, who receives £2o,oooia year, he is the highest paid member 1 of the Cabinet. His office.''is''one of great antiquity and pow'qi;.,. It,iihvtes.,back many centuries,! and the;; Chancellor, if a baron, takes precedence of every temporal lord not of the Royal Family, and of all bishops, except tho| Archbishop of Canterbury. An enormous amount of patronage, both ecclesiastical and (judicial,falls, to, the Lord Chancellor, who/;in.'addition to having the appointment of all judges (except the Chief Justice) and the justices of the poace throughout the kingdom, is also the patron of a large number of Crown livings.