The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-01-21
The Prominent Men or BnpInnd.

The little volume called "Who's who,r pub
ished annually in England, contains an epitome
Of the personal and public position OF every in.
|dividual of any celebrity in the country. It
gives an account of the royal family and its
branches, the royal household, the nobility
their rank, name ages, and heirs-the cabinet
aud chief officers of state, the members of the
IPrtvy Council, the members of the House of
Commons, their ages and politics. etc. This
year the oldest duke is the Duke OF Northum-
berland, aged 8S; the youngest, the Duke of
Norfolk, aged 10. The oldest marquis, the
Marquis of Westmeath aged 81; the youngest,
the Marquis of Ely, aged H. The Oldest earl,
the Earl OF 0nslow, aged 80; the youngest, the
Earl of Waldegraye, aged l6. The Oldest Wis
count, Viscount dough, aged 81; the youngest,
! Vircount ClfdeL, aged 3. The Oldest baron,
4 Lord Brougham, aged SS; the youngest, Lord
Rodney, aged 8. The Oldest member of the
Privy Couuci is Lord Brougham, aged SS; the
youngest, his Royal Highness the Prince OF
Wales, aged rs.
The oldest member of the House Of Commons
4 is Sir William Werner, Bart, member for the
Earl OF Darlington, member for WycOmb, aged
23. The oldest judge in England is the Right
Hon. stephen Lushlngton, aged "a; the young
est, Sir James p. Wilde, aged 90. The oldest
budge in Ireland, the Right Hon. Francis Black
L~burne, Lord Chancellor, aged "a; the youngest,
Justice Keogb, aged 40. The oldest Scotch Lord
of Session, the Right Hon, Duncan Mcneil,
Lord Justce-Generai, aged, 70; the young.
A est, David Mure, Lord Mure, aged
8 55. The oldest Archbishop, the Arch
bishop of Canterbury aged 72; the
youngest, Archbishop of York, aged AZ. The
y oldest Bishop, the Bishop OF Exeter, aged 80;
\ the youngest, the Bishop OF Gloucester and
Il Bristol, aged AZ. The Oldest baronet, Sir Stephen
L. Hammck, aged 80; youngest, Sir Henry
! Hayes Lawrence aged two years. The oldest
4 civil aud military knight is General Sir Arthur
a b. Clifton, aged "a; the youngest Sir Charles
! 4. Bright aged 81. The House of Peers at
present consists of l prince, 2 royal dukes, 8
earls 81 viscounts, q bishops, and l65 barons-
the total number oil peers being 445. The
j 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.
4 E. Hobart, Earl Of Bucklnghamshre: the Rev.
William George Howard, Earl of Carlisle; the
Very Rev. William John Broderick, VlscOunt
4 Middleton; the Rev. William Nevil, Earl of
Abergavenny; the Ven. Frederick Twistleton-
Wykeham- -Fiennes, d. G. L., Lord Saye and
Sele; the Rev. Alfred Nathaniel Fl, Curzon,
Lord Scarsdale. The ir-presumptive to the
title of Lord Arundel and Wardour is his
brother the Rev. Everard AlOysius Gonzaga,
4 Jesuit Priest. There are ITO peers of Scotland
and Ireland who are not Peers of Parliament;
there are 220 members Of Privy Council; aud
: the ArchbishOps, Bishops, Colonial Bishops,
Bishops of the Episcopal Church of Scotland,
and retired Bishops number SO.
There are S56 baronets, 446 civil and military
! knights, Ill noblemen and baronets who are
knights of the various orders rs knights of the
Order OF the Star of India, 726 knights COM
{ panions of the Order of the Bath, 3 field mar
shals, 584 general officers in the army 81 gene
rails in her Majesty's Indian army, 329 admirals
in the navy, 81 judges In the United Kingdom
+ and Ireland $50 Queens counsel and sergeants-
at-law in England, and 81 in Ireland. There
pare 1S4 deaths recorded of those whose names
| appeareoIin WHO'S Who, )" and who died between
! the 30th November, 1865, and lst December,
1866, with the dates of their birth and death.