New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-08
EARL OF LIVERPOOL.
NeSC Lord Stescard Gets Title Sug-
gested for Gladstone.

KING Edwards advancement of Lord Hawkes.
bury, the new Lord Steward of his Household to
the carbon of Liverpool serves to recall the fact
that 1t was this particular title which it always
said would be conferred I,non the late William,
E. Gladstone Indeed there are said to be grounds
LOT beleVlng the story that he at one moment
not only willing but anxious to follow the ex-
ample of his famous rival. Lord BeaconsaeId and
to wind up his wonderful career in tho tIo,,so 90
Lords. providing that the earldom bestowed ,,nop
him could be that of Liverpool a CITY with which
he was so greatly Identified by family and political
associations 1t Is claimed that only when he
found that there were insuperahe obstacles tn his
taking the title of Earl of liverpool did he
decline to consider any further the idea of accept
ing peeraSe and made up his mind 20 die as
he lived, plain william E. Gladstone The obstacles
were in the form Of objections raised by the last
Lord Liverpool's grandson and heir Cecil George
FolJambe. who was created Lord Hawkesbury in
1873 1t Is matter of unwritten law in England
that no newly created peer should select as his
title one which has belonged to a family which is
stll in existence and which has expectations of
having the dignity in question revived in favor
by the Crown. It in difference to this accord
ing to report. that the earldom of Liverpool was
withheld from the Grand Old Man and is now con-
ferred upon Lord Hawkesbury
The new earl is a persona gratssima with the
royal family. He lord in-wating to the late
queen Victoria and his mothers sister and the
tatUers husband were the equerry and lady-in-
waiting TO Queen Victoria>s mother, the Duchess
Blessed with a family of no less than thirteen
children, Lord Liverpool formerly in the navy,
from which he retired with the rank of lieutenant.
He is a man of sixty years of age, has travelled
tensively, is of the leading psychologists and
genealogists in England, and under fire in
the New-Zealand a member of the naval
brigade. He comes by the patronymic Of Foljambe
through the distan side of the house. The Fol
jambes played great role in the reign of King
Henry III and of Edward L. The family became X
tinct far the male line concerned in
1751. when Francis Moore of Welton Hall, York
shire, and of Kingston-on-Hu succeeded to the
estates Of his mothers brother, Thomas Foljambe,
last of his line. whose and arms he
sumed by virtue Of of Parliament bearing
the date OF the third year of the reign of George
Ill George FolIambe, father of the Lord
Steward of the Household married Lady Selma
Jenkinso1. daughter OF the third and last Baron
fIawkesbslry and Earl OF Liverpool Jenkin-
son creation. This Lord Liverpool Lord Stew
ard OF Household for several years during the
early part of the reign Of Queon Victoria The
first of the Jenknson Earls Of Liverpool
snanded the Royal House Guards at the battle of
DettinSen, famous the last battle in which
a king of England took actual part. participating
in the cavalry charges He created in turn
Baron IIawkesbury and Earl OF Liverpool, and
played a notable role in politics during the reign
OF George III. filling the Office of Lord Of the Ad-
rnfralty. His son, the second Earl Of Liverpool
wac Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and
Prime Minister OF England for seventeen years,
and Il was his half brother and successor who
was the third Earl Of Liverpool of the Jenkinson
creation and grandfather of the new and Foljambe
Earl Of Liverpool