The Irish standard., 1910-01-15
BRIEF SKETCHES Of BRITISH PEERS
FOR AND AGAINST THE BUDGET
Interesting Biographies Of Some Arstocac Pavens Whose Fore
fathers Were Ennobled Because They Were the Legitimate
Offspring Of Royalty Are Given by the Oupoken Organ Of
the British Radicals.

| Writing of members OF the peerage
who voted for and against Lloyd
Georges budget ON the night of Nov.
80, 1909, in the House OF Lords, Rey-
nolds Newspaper, London. the organ
of the Radicals, says in it's issue of the
5th ult.:
| We feared to the last moment that
even they wouldn't be such boobies.
But on Tuesday at the witching hour
of Midnight. they did the horrid deed.
On Wednesday they We're ''sloping OFF,
north, south, east and west to their
backwoods. True it Is that the I'M
perial Curzon, who dragged his rcVcr-
end dad, my Lord Baron Scarsdule, all
the way from Derbyshirc to London to
vote, has incited them to emerge again
Egad! that would add to the gayety of
this British nation. 1t would be better
than a pantomimc. But we shall have
no such luck, we fear. The organic
ing powers of the Tory party are not
such idiots as to allow that. There
is the backwoodsnan himself to be
! reckoned with. Will lie give up any
more shooting parties? Will he make
any further sacrifices. even at the CALL
the imperious summons. Of Il Curzon?
We doubt it. Lord Efnngham found it
l>:,,
vote. We are not likely to catch him
speaking. Who is this Lord Iiffing
| ham? He is an offshOot Of the Norfolk
Howards. and half lrrenchman to
boot. The family have done nothing
particular since the days of Queen
, Elizabeth. Lord Effingham's greatest
achievement is that he has been deco
J rated with Il gold star for services to
athletics and cycling in a part Of OK
| fordshire. He is over 40, and a BACH
| elor. Perhaps he regards marriage as
, "tiresome."
l But let MS begin at the Dukes. Non"
of them voted for the budget. Twenty
of them We're among the $50 peers who
, voted against 1t. One was the old
, Duke of Grafton, q man close on 80.
, Him they dragged all the way from
his backwood in Norfolk. His grace is
a peer because there was once per-
J son called Barbara Villiers Barbara
was precocious young woman, and
! no mistake. She married one Roger
4 Palmer, Earl OF Castlemaine. "but he
4 does not appear" say the authorities
( ito have been the father of any OF
her offspring" There were at least
I three claimants for the paternity OF
her first child, Anne. Roger claimed
9 but Charles II. acknowledged her as
{ his by royal warrant, though public
opinion assigned her to yet II third
. claimant. my Lord Chesterfield, oi
. whom the child was a living image
. Barbara's second child was named
+. Charles. The mother was 80 cruel tc
. him when a mere child that an intel
!. lect that never promised very we'll was
:. impaired. With a certain appropriate.
t, ness he was made a Duke. She ha(
L Ave other children. Barbara had low.
: ers by the score. But 1t was her con.
n nectfon with Charles that has immor.
y talized her and enriched the House o.
e Lords. She fattened, by the Kings ia.
y vor, on the national revenues to thu
q national detriment, and she was made
n Duchess Of Cleveland in consideration
: of "her own personal virtues" Tha
is why the motto Of the Duke o
}" Grafton is "Et decus ct pretium rccti.'
10 For his grace descends from her sec
l. ond son, Henry Fitzroy. King Charlie
70 refused at first to acknowledge tn
i child as his, but in the end he gav'
II him the benefit of the doubt, and mad
him Duke of Grafton.
ls Lord Southampton also descends di
rectly from the frail Barbara. He, 0
10 course, voted against the budget. Thel
his grace of Buccleuch was in tn
,r ducal band Of twenty. His surname
Scott but 1t really ought to be Wake,
}. for the first Duke resulted from tn
n liaison between Lucy Walker an
l. Charles II. Poor Lucy! She took u
Or with Charles when he was a boy, an
Of no duchess ever came her way. for he
lover was then in exne and hard u