THE LATE LOAD GLENESK.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 328, 21 January 1909, Page 4

THE LATE LOAD GLENESK.

A REMARKAHLK JOIKXALtSTk! CAItKKU. "Lord Ulcucsk (unit's the Vail Mall Cazctle) was to have been 11 member of the Diplomatic Service, for which he was eminently adapted by his tliarai of iniiniier. ltut English journalism niav be grateful to the family reasons that vetoed this, and made him the Paris correspondent, „f |lu. journal with which his father, Peter Lorlliwich, ftirnicrly .M.V. for Kves'hiiin, was connected, the Morning I'osl. Young .Mr ISorthwick (he was nut then of; age) became friendly with Louis Napoleon, iwid distinguished hinisi.lf particuhirlv by the account of the Coup d'Etnl. "(In the death of his father, in 18-3:5, lie became manager of the paper, then at a low ebb, and set to work thoroughly to reorganise it. Particularly dnring"uas his reduction of its price from .'id to Id. The prophets insisted that the readers of the Horning Post—otherwise Meiunes' —would never tolerate such degradation, but it was soon found that even they bad no exclusive prejudice i/n favor of paying three times as much, for an inferior article. What the Jlorning Post has liceomc under Lord <lleiresk as manager and proprietor all the world knows. It is his boast that it has never contained a paragraph which he had riot reason to know was acceptable to the people concerned. .Hut the Post is :io mere Society sheet, of course, it is healthily independent in its t'onservatism to this day ; it has given }lr Spouse r Wilkinson a platform" and helped to make Hi- Winston Churchill. To Lcmi Olcuesk's journalistic record must, 3><v ndded the Owl of the sixties, of which, he was the chief promoter. The secret of the authorship of this wVeklv publication, which shocked avid delighted liy the freedom with which it save awaV ■ political mysteries, was long kept, while the Owls, who included Mr Stuart Wortley and -Mr Evelyn Ashley, met weekly to consume their profits 'on a llondav | dinner. In LSSO .Mr liorthwick was: knighted, and unsuccessfully contested ( Evesham. Ife became a baronet in ISS7.. lie sat: for South Kensington from 1511.3. until he was raised to the peerage in. ]8!1,3, acting during most 01 that tinias chairman of the London Conservative M.'sP. Ho took „ leading part in Ihe foundation of the Primrose League, and was heartily seetr.ided in his support of that iiistitulion by La'dy Olenesk. Lord Oloiresk has always shown the closest interest in the. new-paper world, holdinghigh olliee in connection with the Press: fund, the Newspaper Soeiely and theInstitute of Journalists. Jloi-:> in 1.5X0.. Im was educated in Paris and in King'sCollege. London. Ladv Clenesk. a. daughter of the late Thoiiia-. Ilcnrv Lister, of Armitage Park. Stafford, and a. aeice of the fourth Earl of Olamlon,. was a great and chariningliosless.wlio.se, death, in 1803, was widelv mourned, as. was that of Lord (lleaesk's -on, Mr Oliver Jiorthwick. His daughter is Lady llathurst. Lord Clcivesk hud no heir."