People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 34, 24 August 1905, Page 10

People We Hear About

Mr. Joseph A. Glynn, brother of Mr. P. McM. Glynn, M.H.R., has been elected chairman of the Galway County Council for the fourth time. His predecessor in the office was Captain Nolan, the well known Home Ruler.

The occupations of the members of the South Australian Ministry and their Whip are— Mr. Price, a stonemason ; Mr. Peake, an auctioneer ; Mr. O'Loughlin, a farmer ; Mr, Kirkpatrick, a compositor ; and Mr. Coneybeer, a saddler.

Lord and Lady Denbigh have no less than- seven daughters, as well as three sons. At an audience which they had with Pius X. last year, Lady Denbigh showed a photographic group of her family to the Pontiff, who was delighted with it, and wrote a few words of bene* diction sigined with his name at the foot o! tbephoto-^ graph.

The Marquis ol Bute, who was married on July 6 to Miss BelLuvgham,, daughter of Sir Henxy Bellingfaam, " County Louth, may well be described as a favorite of' fortune. He has eleven titles, is a Barottet of Nova Scotia, and Hereditary Keeper of Rothesay Castle. H& is the wealthiest peer in Scotland, and one of the richest men in the three kingdoms. He possesses nearly 120,000 acres of land, and the total value of his late father's estate was over £5,000,000. Cardiff is chiefly respon-> sibie for this happy state of affairs, though he owns much land also in Bute, Dumfries, and Wigtownshire. Lord Bute succeeded to the titles of his father in October, 1900, and came of age in June, 1902, when there were festivities in Scotland and South Wales which lasted the autumn. One feature of the Bute estates jn the Cardiff district is the vineyard which the late Marqtuis planted, and where he triumphantly demonstrated the possibility of producing the most excellent wines. Mountstuart, Lord Bute's principal seat in Scotland, is an immense Gothic structure, built of red sandstone, and rich in marble, situated some miles along the coast from Rothesay , the construction of which cost fully £1,000,000.

Mr. Wm, Dillon, brother of Mr. John Dillo*,M.P., has just been appointed Master in Chancery by Judge Mack, of Ohicago. According to a Chicago journal, Mr. Dillon stands in the front rank of Chicago lawyers. lie has been ' strongly urged by the Democracy for judicial honors,' says this paper, ' and he would certainly grace the Bench.' William Dillon,' the writer goes on to say, ' was .ttorn in Brooklyn, N.Y., on July 10, 1850 ; went to Ireland with his parents when about 7 years old ; received his general education in Dublin and London ; was called to the Iri?h Bar in 1874 ; practised as a barrister in Dublin till 1880, when he was obliged to give up practice owing to ill health ; came to Chicago in 1880, and was admitted to the Illinois Bar in that year ; went to Colorado in same year, and after living 'on a ranch for some years resumed the practice of law, and was County Attorney of Douglas, County Colorado, for some years ; came to Chicago again in 1893, and has sm,ce practised law in this city. Is a member of the Ifonora/ble Society of the Middle Temple, London, and the Honorable Society of the King's Inns, Dublin.

Mr. Augustine Roche, the new member for Cork City, is not the first of his name to represent that part of Ireland in the House of Commons. The late Edmund Burke Roche, first Lord Permoy and father of the pre-f-ent peer, was elevated to the peerage of Ireland by the Liberals in 1855. Lord Derby objected to the creation of the Fernnoy peerage, not on personal, but on legal grounds. lli.s contention was that the clause in the Act of Union requiring the extinction of three Irish peerages before a new peerage could he created was violated by the issue of the patent to Lord Fermoy. Political considerations wore really at the root of the objection, for at that period the election of Representative Peers for Ireland was carried on as between Conservatives and Liberals, a distinction which has since disappeared. The point was discussed in the Lords in 1855 and 185fi, and the end of it was that the peerage dates from 185P>, and not from 1855, when it was really created. Sir Boyle Roche was, of course, the most famous Parliamentarian of that ilk. Towards the close of the eighteenth centnrv he represented several constituencies in the frish Parliament, where he indulged in those famous ' bulls ' whiert seem destined to surviveffor a lonpj time to como. There are few ' bulls,' perhaps, destined to a longer existence than that of Sir Boyle Roche's bard which was able to be in two places at the same time.