The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-02
ny LORD The TOURIST GUIDE.
ENTER THE Sd BARON LYvEDEN,
SHOWING FOLKS TIE WORLD.

SHOWING FOLKS TIE WORLD.
He Did Harder Things Before He Get
Int the Hsuse q Lsrds. and He's
Proud Of lt-slung Hash en- the Bswery
Courtenay Robert Percy Vernon, third
Baron Lyveden, arrived here on Wednes-
day evening at the head of a personally
conducted tour Of distinguished English
men and women who set out from Liver
pool early in August to visit British Column
bia and other parts Of Canada
Lord Lyveden, whose name should be
pronounced AZ il it were spelled -Livden.'
is a British peer with plenty of shrewd
business sense who puts on no airs. He
has seen worse times than he Is enjoying
at present. and he Is quite willing that
anybody interested enough TO inquire
shouldrk know it,
He was the eldest son OF the Hon. Courte-
nay John Vernon, rector Of Grafton Under
wood, Northamptonshire, who died on
July 2, 1892. On the death OF the second
Baron Lyveden, nine years later. Courte-
nay Robert Percy Vernon succeeded 10
the title and estates, which include some
Is, 900 acres of land in Northamptonshire
Since the death of his uncle, whose sue
cess0r he became. the present Baron has
done nothing more exciting than sit In the
House of Lords. manage his estates and
occasionally conduct party OF British
world
1t was before he became lord that this
don Of clergyman did things in the way
Of earning living that would have done
credit to the most venturesome Yankee.
When q youth he thought he wanted to
go into the army and for the service he was
educated. But though he was perfectly
willing to fight. he wasn't willing to study
books to learn how. Therefore, when he
came up for his final examination, he
funked miSerably, and his father concluded
that the Young mans army career was
ended.
But the rector didn't quite know his son.
failed in his examinations he enlisted in
the Royal Artillery. He stayed there just
eight months
Then he decided that he'd like TO be an
actor. He had been to the theatre few
times, and he was sure that, with little
body he'd ever seen on the stage. There
fore, having bought his discharge. he
haunted the London theatres for job.
Finally, in 1882 he got one at the Hay
market Theatre with the Bancrofts, who
were then playing -The Overland Route
Just how he got it he has never been quite
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