People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 17 September 1908, Page 28

People We Hear About

Lord Camoys, whose engagement to a Spanish lady is announced, is a Catholic Peer. He succeeded to the title while he was a minor in 1897. He is bnly-the fifth baron, although the peerage was created so long ago as the thirteenth century. The reason •is that from 1426 -to 1839 it remained in abeyance. His father was a Lord-in-Waiting under the Liberal Governments of 1886 and 1892. His grandmother -.wasone^of the closest friends of Queeu 1 Alexandra and acted as Bedchamber Woman to her Majesty when , Princess of Wales. - Lord Camoys was horn in 1884/ | n f "was educated- at the Oratory,' Edgbaston, and' at Balliol College, Oxford. It is an interesting fact that Mass has been said continuously in the chapel at: btonor since its erection in 1349. t_- J^ r ' £ amuel Youn §:» who claimed in debate on the third reading of the Irish Universities Bill in the HousV of Commons the honor of being the oldest man in the House of Commons, was born in 1822, and is accordingly eighty-six. In the last century, however, an Irish Nationalist was a member of the House of Gomjnons at the time of his death when he had entered . on his ninety-second year— Colonel T*rcr— ©'Gorman Mahon, who was born in Ennis on St. Patrick's Day 1800. He died as member for Carlow- on June 15' cc 9 *' . The ° 'Gorman Mahon first entered the House of Commons in 1830, and was for- upwards of sixty years a picturesque and commanding -personality v\ Iriih, public life. 'He -was one of the last of the generation, of the duelling period. . He'fought thirteen duels in all, and in how many the result proved fatal is not known. ' " - . Lord Denbigh, whom the -Holy Rather has appointed as representative in England of the Order of . the Holy Sepulchre, is one of the few Catholic Peers who take an active .part in public life. He is no less distinguished from the bulk of Jii§, Catholic brethren by the part he plays in the life of * the Church in England. He is president of the Catholic Association, the most active Catholic body in the country King Edward chose him as his Majesty's special envoy to Leo_XTII. on the occasion jof the twenty-fifth anniversary of his He accompanied Queen Victoria on her memorable visit, to Ireland- in 1900 • and he was choseq to attend on the King of Spain during the latter 's recent visit to England. Lord Denbigh is a Count of the Holy Roman Empire, and Earl of Desmond m the Peerage of Ireland, Viscount Callan, Viscount Feilding, and Baron St. Liz. -Sir Timothy O'Brien, -of Lohort Castle, County Cork, who was the defendant in a recent libel action in the Cork Courts, and which came to a somewhat' ***??■? term , ina tion ,is the famous cricketer" in the Middlesex eleven of some twenty years ago His grandfather, the first Baronet, was the Timothy O'Brien . -who was Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1844 and" 1849, and was-jnember for Cashel from 1846 till 1859 -Sir Timothy O'Brien is the nephew of Sir Patrick O'Brien whom -he succeeded in the baronetcy, and who was member- for the King's County from- -1852 till 188^ He was noted for his wit, and had a considerable repul tation.as a Parliamentary humorist. During- an allnight sitting in the House of Commons, he moved in lv ,Tw Ur v ° f tkemorning.- the adjournment of the debate on the ground that if the sitting were much • further prolonged members would be too tired to appreciate the batting of his nephew at Lord's in the afternoon. ' ■ ' . *