The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-02-02
WHO'S WHO.
THE PROMINENT MEN OF ENGLAND.

The little volume called "Who's
Who," published annually in England,
contains an epitome Of the personal and
public position Of every individual of
any celebrity in the country. 1t gives
an account of the royal family and it's
branches, the royal household, the no.
bility-their rank, name, ages,
and heirs-the cabinet and chief officers
of state, the members of the privy
council, the members of the house of
commons, their ages and politics, etc.
This year the oldest duke is the duke of
n Northumberland, aged IS; the young
est, the duke of \ orfolk, aged 10. The
oldest marquis, the marquis of West
meath, aged 81; the youngest, the Mar
quis of Ely, aged II. The Oldest earl,
the Earl of Onslow, aged 50; the youn-
gest, the Earl of Waldergrave, aged Is.
The oldest viscount, Viscount Cough,
aged 81; the youngest, Viscount Cliff
den, age 3. The oldest baron, Lord
Brougham- -aseI-sss, tile ' youngest, Lord
Rodney, aged 6. The oldest member
of the privy council is Lord Brougham,
aged IS; the youngest, his royal high
ness the Prince Of Wales, aged 25.-
The oldest member of the house of COM
mons is Sir William Werner, Bart, men,
ber for the county of Armagh, aged s4;
the Youngest, the Earl of Darlington,
member for Wycomb, aged %. The
oldest Judge in England is the Right
Honorable Stephen Washington, aged
81; the youngest, Sir James p. Wilde,
aged so. The oldest Judge in Ireland,
the Right Hon. Francis Blackburn,
Lord Chancellor, aged 81 the youngest,
Justice Keogh, aged 40. The oldest
Scotch Lord of Session, the Right Hon.
Duncan McNeill, lord justice general,
!, ged 73 the youngest, David NIurc,
Lord Mure, aged 55. The oldest arch
bishop, the Archbishop of Canterbury,
aged -; the youngest, Archbishop of
York, aged II. The oldest bishop, the
Bishop Of Exeter, aged SO; the young
est, the Bishop Of Gloucester and Bris-
tol, aged Al. The oldest baronet, Sir
Stephen L. Hammick, aged 80; young
est, Sir Henry Hayes Lawrence, aged
two wears. The oldest civil and militia
ry knight is General Sir Arthur B. Cliff
ton, aged 81; youngest, Sir Charles T.
Bright, a5ed 81.
The house Of peers at present con-
sists of prince, royal dukes, 3 arch
bishops, % dukes, 81 marquises, l59
earls, 81 viscounts, 27 bishops and 1872
barons-the total number of peers being
445. The Bishop of Bath and Wells
sits also as baron Auckland.
The following clergymen have also
seats in the house of lords as lay peers:
The Rev. A. Z. Hobart, earl of Ruck-
inghampshire the Rev. William George
Howard, earl of Carlisle; the very Rev. |
William John Broderick, viscount of !
Middleton; the Rev. William Nevil,
earl Of Abergavenny the Ven. Freder-
i&k Twisleton w ykeham-F m-Fiennes, D. G..
L., lord saye and sele; the Rev. Alfred
Nathaniel II. Curzon, lord of Scarsdale.
The heir presumptive to the title of
Lord Arundel and Wardour, is his
brother, the Rev. Everard Aloysius
Gonzaga, Jesuit priest.
There are 10 peers of Scotland and
Ireland, who are not peers of parlia-
ment; there are 22O members of the
privy council and the achbishops, bish-
ops, colonial bishops, bishps of the
Episcopal church Of Scotland and re-
tired bishops, number 8s.
There are $50 baronets, 446 civil and
military knights, Ill nobleman and
barorets who arc knights of the various
orders, 25 knights Of the order of the
Staref India, 726 knights companions
OF the order of the Bath, 3 field mar
shals, 584 general officers in the army,
311 generals in her Majesty's Indian
army, s22 adrnirals in the navy, "a
Judges in the United Kingdom and Ire
and, l8o queens counsel and sergeants
at-law in Engla nd, and 81 in Ireland
There are 1874 d eaths recorded of those
whose names appeared in "Who's
Who" and who. died between the 3Oth
November, ls6 5, and 1st December, ]
866, with the d ates of their birth and
eath, s