A MINER EARL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3526, 17 May 1912, Page 2

A MINER EARL.

• The Earl of Hardwiclce, 'who in- ; formed the House of Lords that he had worked under ground for two years as a miner in America, would hold the title of Baron Morden today, in addition to the others which he possesses, but for the fact that his great-great-grandfather, Lord Chancellor Yorke, declined on his deathbed to authenticate the patentof the peerage conferred upon him on his elevation to the Woolsack, on i which he never sat- The second son of Lord Chancellor HardwickeV he at--1 tamed his ambition to reach the same j high office as his father, but survived his appointment only by three days. The present peer (says the i Westminster Gazette) is not the first of his family to have seen the rough side of life. His father, who died in 1909, saw active service as a Naval officer in the Crimea; while his I grandfather, the fourth Earl, wbjo was also in the Navy, had some exciting experiences in connection with the suppression of piracy in the Mediterranean. An earlier holder of the title was the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland , at- thte time of Robert Emmet’s rebellion, and his action, or lack of action, at the time was the subject of considerable debate in the Imperial Parliament.