The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-05-14 00:00:00

A WOMAN MAY BE APPOINTED
OVERSEER.

In the Bail Court, in London, in the cause of "ex
parte Mrs. tsolil," Mr. Manisty, Q C., applied for a
rule calling upon the Justices of Montgomeryshire to
show cause why a certiorari should not issue directing
them to bring up the order for the appointment of
Mrs. Gold as an overseer of a parish, in order that it
might be quashed. Mrs. Gold was a lady upwards
of sixty years of age. She was the widow of General
Gold, and was the proprietress of large landed pro.
perty. The justices bad appointed Mrs. Gold and
three gentlemen to be overseers for the present year.
She applied for the certiorari on the ground that there
were upwards of fifty men in the parish who were
competent and qualified to serve the office ,4 overseer.
Although a woman was liable to serve, still he sub-
mitted that it was only in cases of necessity that ifie
justices would be justified in appointing a woman. The
milk case he could find was one where the order was
confirmed upon the ground that there was a necessity
for the appointment.
Mr. Justice Lush was of opinion that there ought
not to be a rule. It had been long settled that a
woman might be appointed to the office of overseer,
and he doubted whether there was any power in the
Court to interfere.—Hule refused.

THE LATE MARQUIS OF
OHOLMONDELEY.
We have to announce the death of one of the oldest
members of the House of Peers—the Marquis of
Cholmondeley, the joint Hereditary Great Chamber-
lain of England.
The Moot Noble George Horatio Cholmondeley,
fifth Earl and second Marquis of Cholmondeley, Earl
of Rocksavage, Baron Cholmondeley, if Namptwicb,
in the county palatine of Chester, and Baron New-
burgh, of the Isle of Anglesey. all in the Peerage of
Great Britain—Viscount Cholmondeley and Baron
Newbrirgh, of Rolls, in the county of Meath, in the
Peerage of Ireland—was born at Paris on the
16th of January, 1792. He was the elder o the
two eons of George James, fourth Earl and first
Marquis of Cholmondeley, KG., by Lady Georgina
Charlotte, second daughter and co-heir (with her
sister, the late Baroness Willoughby d'Eresby) of
Peregrine, third duke of Ancaster,- -a title now extinct.
IHe was educated at Eton, where he was a contem-
porary of Percy Bysshe Shelley. the poet, the late Mr
Justice Patteson, Mr. Justice Coleridge, and the late .
Marquis of Salisbury. He sat in the Lower House of
Parliament, while bearing the courtesy title of Lord
Rocksavage, as member for the since disfranchised
" pocket-borough " of Castle Rising, from 1818 to 1821,
when he was called to the Upper House by summons,
in his father's Barony of Newburgh. He succeeded to
the family hanorirs and estates in Cheshire and in Ire-
land in April, 1827, and on the death of his father, who
had held the office of Lord Steward of the Household
under the Rsgency, and had been advanced to the
coronet of a Marquis in 1815.
Lord Cholmondeley never took a prominent part in
the proceedings of the House of Peers, being content
for the most part to vote by proxy, and leaving that pr. ixy
in the hands of the Conservative leaders. He was a
liberal supporter of most of the religious societies of
the kingdom; and he took a far greater pride and
pleasure in aiding the good works of others in this direc-
tion by his purse and connect than in mixing in the
world of polities, for which his retiring nature but little
fitted him. His Lord. hip, who was a magistrate for
Norfolk. and Vice-Admiral of Cheshire, was sworn a
Privy Councillor in 18:30. He spent the greater part
of his time at his seats in Cheshire and Norfolk, im-
proving his estates by the appliances of scientific
agriculture and the condition of his tenantry by
sanitary improvements. He was twice married; first in
October, 1812, to Miss Caroline Campbell, daughter of
the late General Colin Campbell, who died about three
years afterwards; and, secondly, in May, 1830, to
Lady Susan Somerset, fourth daughter of Henry
' . s, sixth Luke of Beaufort. As, however, he had
no iiguit by either marriage, the title and estates pass
t, his brother, Lord William Henry Hash Cholmon.
deley, better known as Lord Henry Cholmondeley,
who was horn in August, 1800, and married in Feb-
ruary, 1825, Marcia Emma Georgiana, daughter of the
late Right Hon. Charles Arbuthnott, by whom he has
issue three daughters and two sons, of whom the elder
died in 1869.
The noble house of Cholmondeley claims descent In

the female line from Hugh. Baron of Malmo, who
ovrii-..d the estate of Cholmondeley at the time of
Doomsdr.y sm-iey,- and whose daughter and heire,s,
Lettice, carriol that property into the family of Be
Belward, one of whom, en taking up his residence at
Cholmendeley, assumed that name in hen of his own, and
from him the Choluiondeleys can boast an unbroken male
descent f between 500 and 600 years. his descendant,
Sir Hugh Cholmondeley, was a distinguished Radler in
toe reign f Henry VIII. ; and this gentleman's grand-
son was created a baron in 1611, and subsequently a
Peer both of Ireland and of England. His great
nephew, Hugh, Viscount Chohnondely, of Kells,
county Meath, was advanced in 1706 to the Earldom;
with romai,ider to his brother George, who commanded
the Grenadier „Guards under King William at the
battle of the Boyne, and who was the great-great-
grandfather of the nobleman just deceased.