DECLINED A PEERAGE
LATE SPEAKER OF HOUSE FIRST FOR 120 YEARS British Official Wireless RUGBY, Monday. It is announced that the King expressed a wish to confer the dignity of a peerage on the late Speaker of the House of Commons, Mr. J. H. Whitley, but has allowed him to decline the honour for personal reasons. Mr. Whitley is the first ex-Speaker for 120 years to decline a peerage. A knighthood has been conferred upon Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Verney, who was secretary to the Speaker in 1921.
The first House of Commons Speaker to be so called was Sir Thomas Hungerford, who died in 1398. A retiring Speaker is generally made a peer (usually a viscount), as in the case of the last 12 Speakers from 1789 (Lord Grenville). The last six Speakers, since IS4I, have been Viscounts Eversley, Ossington, Hampden, Peel, Selby, and Ullswater. Lord Ullswater (formerly Mr. J. W. Lowther), who retired in 1921, is still alive.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 391, 27 June 1928, Page 11
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158DECLINED A PEERAGE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 391, 27 June 1928, Page 11
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