The state capital., 1892-08-20
l Hon.

Il[1on. Farrer Herschell, lord chancel-
Ior, is the son Of Rev. r. HI. Herschell,
and was born in 1887. He was called
TO the bar in 1860. He represented
Durham in the liberal interest from
1874 to 1885, Mr.. Gladstone made him
solicitor general in 1880, and he was
raised to the peerage in 1886.
The Earl of Kimberly, secretary Of
state for India and president Of the
council, was born in 1926 and succeeded
10 the title of B aron WOodhOuse in 1S46.
He was made earl Of Kimberly in 1866
In 1852 he was appointed under secre-
tary of state for foreign affairs and was
appointed envoy to St. Petersburg at
the close Of the Crimean war. He was
under secretary for foreign affairs in
Lord Palmerston's second administra-
tion and under secretary for India in 1864.
He succeeded the earl of Carlisle as lord
lieutenant Of Ireland and resigned in
1866. He was lord privy seal under Mr..
Gladstone from December, 1868, to July,
1870, and afterwards secretary Of state
for the colonies. He was secretary Of
state for India from December 1882
until June 1885 and was reappointed
under Mr.. Gladstone's third govern
ment in 1856, going out when Salisbury
cane in.
The marquis of Ripon George Fred
erick Samuel Robinson) was born in
1927 and succeeded to the title in 1859.
He was returned from Hull in 1852;
and after holding subordinate offices he
was appointed secretary for war in 1864
and secretary for India in 1866. He
was chairman Of the joint high com
mission which arranged the treaty Of
Washington. He also has been grand
master of the Free Masons of England,
which Office he resigned to join the Ro-
man Catholic church. In 1880 Mr..
Gladstone appointed him viceroy Of
India, where he was extremely popular
with the natives and unpopular with
most Europeans.
III. HI. Asquith. member Of parliament
for East Fifeshire, is 40 years of age
and new man in Office. He has made
himself conspicuous in the house, how
ever, by his effective oratory, and it is
believed that he will make an excellent
home secretary.
Rt. Hon. III. Campbell ll-Bannerman is
s6 years Of age and veteran office
holder He has been financial secre-
tary to the war office, secretary to the
admiralty and chief secretary for Ire
land, and secretary for war in the short
government of 1868
Earl Spencer, whose full name is Rt.
Hon. John Poyntz Spencer, was born
in 1885. He was lord lieutenant of Ire
land in 1854 and lord president of the
council in 1880. He was again nomi-
mated for lord lieutenant of Ireland in
ing of the day that Lord Frederick
Cavendish and Thomas A. Burke were
assassinatcd. 1t fell to Lord Spencer
to administer the crimes act. Lord
Spencer adopted home rule views with
Mr.. Gladstone.
2 Rt. Hon. Sir Wm. George Granville
Nenables Vernon Harcourt, chancellor
Of the exchequer. is one Of the best
known men in Great Britain He was
born in 1927, and was called to the bar
In 1854. The city of Oxford elected him
as liberal in 1868. He was elected
professor Of internal law in Cambridge
in 1864, and appointed solicitor general
in 1878. In 1896 he was chancellor Of
the exchequcr. He is an able writer
and debater, and his letters in the
Times signed ''Historicns" attracted
wide attention. Sir William, who was
knighted In 1878, married, for his second
wife, Mrs. Ives, daughter OF the late
John Lsthrop Motley, the historian,