The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-02
ENGLAND's GRAND OLD MEN.
Those Still Living and Others Who
Recently Passed Away.

Recently Passed Away.
"This is an era of grand old men," says
the London Daily Telegraph, land no one
will be surprised to hear that Sir George
Frederick Upton. Lord Templeton, who ex-
pired on Saturday last at San Reno, was in
his seth year. Lord Templetown was So
years old when, as an officer in the Cold
stream Guards, he was badly wounded at
the battle of Inkerman; and few better
soldiers ever served their queen and country
than the Irish major who went with the
same military glee' that Sir Walter Scott
imputed to the gallant sons Of Erin who
fought under the Duke of Wellington in the
peninsula.
1.-THE noble lord succeeded his brother,
the second Viscount Templetown in 1868.
and was Immediately made an Irish repre-
sentative peer. Originally a Devonshire
family, the Uptons migrated to Ireland In
1898, and settled in Antrim, which county
many of them have represented in the
House Of Commons during the last three
centuries. From the first the race sup
piled many distinguished soldiers to the
British army, and one of them, Clotworthy
Upton, Of Castle Upton, who represented
the county of Antrim in parliament, raised
party of volunteers, and Joined the army
of William of Orange at the seige Of Linn
erick, where he was taken prisoner after
enterin G the breach almost alone, sword in
hand, his followers having been cut down
nearly to man. Within the present CEN
fury no face or figure was better known at
the West End and in Rotten-row than that
of Gen. Arthur Upton, who was born in
1887, and died unmarried In 1855.
"a great friend of the prince regent, the
Duke of York, and the Duke of Yelling
ton, Gen. Upton maintained to the last the
dignified demeanor and stately manners of
the old school, as to which, writing in 1862,
the late Capt. Gronow, formerly in the
Grenadier Guards, and member of parlia-
ment for Stafford complained that they
had already passed away. 4 cannot help
thinking, writes Capt. Gronow, that in
the merry days when [ was young the
women of England were more beautiful,
more distinguished in appearance, and
above all in manner, than they are nova
days. How grand they used to look with
their tall, stately forms, their exquisitely
shaped thoroughbred heads. and long flow
ing riDgletsl They were as dreamlike. fair
and queenly as Ossian's petted daughters.
Egad? it was worth while to be loved by
such women as those
"The veteran who wrote these words
was, we fear, prey to the same malady
which made Gil Bias de SantiIlane COM
plain that the peaches of Spain were not SO
big or so luscious in flavor as in his youth
The 'laudator temporis acti' is as immortal
as the circumstances and surroundings
which influence his judgment, aud Gen.
Arthur Upton was doubtless of opinion, be-
tween 1885 and 1S55-in which latter year
he died, aged 77-tbat the fair faces upon
which he gaZed as he rode side by side with
the first Marquis of Anglesev in Rotten
row were not comparable with those which
he remembered at 0atlands Park, the seat
Of the Duke of York, where he was one of
the most favored CUES for many years
previous to the death of his royal highuess
in 1927.
Turning away, however, from the signs
heaved by old men, and still more perhaps
by old women, over the departed glories
and triumphs of their youth, we may fell c.
itate those of both sexes who came into the
world about the same time as her gracious
majesty that medical science, improved
sanitation, and, above all, the more whole
some rules of life to which all sensible per-
sons now conform, have robbed old age of
many of its stings. Lord Templeton
although never peer of the United King
dom, could not have been ignorant how
many members Of the House of Lords were
his contemporaries, some of them, like Lord
Cottesloe and Lord Albemarle, his seniors,
having first seen the light in the eighteenth
century.
Among the peers born az the beginning
of the present century and still alive may
be mentioned Lord Ebury, born in 1901 !;
Lord Gray, the bishop of Chichester, Lord
Hammond, and Lord Winmarleigh, all of
them born in 1902; the Duke of Cleveland
and Lord Essex, born in 1903; Lord Love
lace, Lord Sydney, Lord Denman, apd Lord
Tollemache, born In 1906; the Earl Of Mans
field, born in 1906; the Bishop of Worcester
and Lord Clonbrock, born in 1907; the
Duke of Devonshire, Lord Bramwell, the
Bishop of Bath and Wells, Lord Dacre, and
the Bishop of st. AL ans, born in 1908; the
Earl Of Verulam, Lord Congleton, Lord
Heytesbury, and Lord Tehnyson. born in
1909.
Still more astonishing than the longevity
OF these venerable peers is the record Of
those who, since April. 1887, have gone over
to the majority. Recapitulating them in
the order Of their departure, we may notice
tha5 the same day in May, 1887, saw the
deaths of Lords Saye and Sele, aged So, and
Lord Meath, aged 81; that in July of the
same year the Marquis of Winchester died,
aged SO; that in November, 1888, Lord New
borough died, aged IS; and few days later
Lord Lucan, aged IS; that on Nov. IS and
10 of the same year Lord Devon expir ed,
aged 81, and Lord Portman, aged SO: that
on Dec. 2S, 1888, Lord Eversley breathed his
last in his 95th year; that on Jan. 20, 1899,
the Marquis If Donegal pas ed away, aged
SO, and on Feb. Lord Efingham, in his
S3d year.
Furthermore, Lord Dunsany departed
at the age of 81, in the same month as Lord
bingham, and Lord Teynham, aged 81.
died on Oct. 26, 1889. In the same month
expired Lord Addington at the age Of IS,
and Lord Malme,bury at the age of 81. We
have confined ourselves solely TO the deaths
of octogenarians and nonogenarians in the
House of Lords in the last "a years, but
when the names and ages Of the departed
are contrasted with those of their survivors,
all born in or before 1909, we hold that a
more remarkable chronicle was never sub
mitted to the consideration OF those who
maintain that the English climate is less
favorable TO longevity then that OF France
and Of some parts Of the United States
"It is not alone { Q boise o. Lords, how
ever, which testifes to the amazing length
Of DAYS now conceded TO Englishmen, per-
haps we might add to Englishwomen were
not all reseronce TO age prohibited Ia tae