St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-01
He. MAJESTY coNFERs HIGH
HONORS ON PROMINENT ENG
LISHMEN.
POET AUsTIN'S APPOINTMENT.
AS THE LAUREATE OF
BRITAIN
pEERAcE FOR SIR F. LEIGHTON
Henry HucI1s Gibbs, the Financier,
Receives Similar Honor-New
Councillors, and knights.

LONDON, Dec. 31.-Among the New
Years honors which have been gazetted
is the appointment of Alfred Austin to
be poet laureate of England; Sir Fred
erick Leighton, r. A, and Henry Hucks
Gibbs, to be peers of the realm; Sir
Richard Temple, ex-member of parlia-
1Eent, and Mr.. c. B. Stuart Wortley, to
be privy councillors, and Col. Howard
Vincent and Judge H. p. +. Crease, OF
British Columbia, have been knighted
A dispatch from London dated Oct
Is gave the first news of the appoint
ment of Alfred austin to be poet Iau-
reate. He was born near Leeds Nav
30 1885, and took his degree at the uni
versIty of London in 1853. and in 1857
was called to the bar of the Inner TEN
pie. At the age of IS he had published
a poem anonymously called Ran
delphi and is himself authority for the
statement that he was early imbued
with determination to devote his life
to literature. His first acknowledged
volume of verse, The Season. Sat
ire appeared in 1861 Since then he
has published a large number Of poeti-
cal productions and three novels. He
mas written for the Standard and for
the Quarterly Review During the sit
ting of the Ecumenical council of the
Vatican he represented To- Standard at
Rome, and he was a special correspon-
dent of that journal at the Headquarters
or the king of Prussia in the Franco
German war. He has also written a
number of political and controversial
works. In 1893, in conjunction with w.
J. Courthope, he founded the National
Review. The work which brought him
into special prominence was the prose
work entitled 'NTha r
Love"
THE NEW PEERS.
Sir Frederick Leighton, the we'll
known president of the Royal Acade-
my, was born at Scarborough Dec. 3.
1880, and from childhood evinced a
strong passion for. painting. He re-
ceived instruction in his art in Rome
and Berlin, and afterwards in Flor
ence. Some of the young students
drawings were submitted to the cele-
brated American sculptor, Hiram
Powers, and the father promised that
his decision should depend on the re-
suit of his interviews with the sculp-
tor. The estimate formed by Powers
OF the drawings being highly favorable,
the youthful Leighton was permitted
from that day forward to devote the
whole of his time to painting. In the
course of his studies he spent a year
In Paris, but most of his artistic edu-
cation was obtained in Germany and
Italy. His first exhibition at the Royal
Academy, in 1855, brought him into
public notice in England. Since that
time he has been very prolific paint
er and for many years has been con-
sidered to stand at the head of Brit
ish art. He was chosen president of
the Royal Academy in succession to the
late Sir Francis Grant in 1878, and a
few days later received the honor of
knfghthood. In tine same year he was
nominated an officer of the Legion of
Honor. Many other distinctions have
been conferred upon him.
Henry Hucks Gibbs, who shares with
Sir Frederick Leighton the honor of
a peerage, is a director of the Bank of
England president of the British BIZ
metallic association, and has dis
played great activity and zeal in fur
thering the cause of silver as money
metal. He was formerly a member of