The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-10

Supreme Court of Scotland, as Lord Of
Session. under the title OF Lord Arnis-
Ton Ills eldest son also became -
lord OF session. rs Lord Admission. and
MS son In turn occupied n scat on
the bench OF the Supreme Court, talk
Ing the seIio title as that Of his father
and grandfather. Indeed, for iiye gem
erations the Lalrds of Arnlston were
Judges OF. the Supreme Court OF Scot
u record without parallel. tho last ons
70 hold this oiiico being Robert Dun
daS. who died in 1873. His son was
called to The bar and was on the high
road TO similar judicial emincnce. when
me reform bill. by dcpriving his fam
ny or the control OF tho parliamentary
representation for Midlothian. which
y had held for over loo years, caused
him TO retire from public life and TO
spend the remainder OF his existence
on his estates, as a Scottish chieftain
anu landed proprietor. at Arniston
Admission was originally part OF tho
lands on the Southeast. granted in tho
tWc!fth century to tho knights Tenn
piars by King David l.. and was tho
'rst settlement OF that once mighty
order in Scotland. 1t extends upwards
OF $4,000 acres. OF which some 5000
property lies at n considerable alti-
tude on tho northern slope OF the
Moorfoots.
Sir Walter Scott was n frequen, Wis
itor Al Admission. and the following en-.
ny is TO be found in ha diary. Il an
always happy in nndinE myself IN tho
old OAK Room Mt Arniston, where !
have drunk many merry bottle. ana
In the field where l have seen many a
hare killed"
Perhaps tho most famous of all the
Dundascs OF Arniston was Henry Dun
daS. younger son of one or the Lords
Arniston, who We're Lords OF Session
aud who was the right-hand man or
Prime Minister Pitt. and his treasurer
or The navy. Raised 10 the pcernEe
through Pitt. as Baron Duneira and
Niscount Melville. he was !mpeachcd
by the House of Commons for NAL
versation while treasurer of the navy.
by the House OF Lords. which returned
a verdict OF Not guilty" he died.
present viscount Melville was for
Tany years consul general Of Great
Britain at Christienia. and makes his
home at Melville Castle, in Midlothian.
highlands new House of Commons
offers some interesting features in it's
representation OF various callings. or
the 66o-odd members. 16O consist OF
end men engaged in industrial and
mercantile pursuits generally Then
there are l45 lawyers. So authors.
newspaper proprietors and Journalists.
and between eighty and ninety off,
GERS OF the army and navy. the latter
preponderating. There are also two
peers. forty-flve sons OF peers. twenty
five engineers architests and survey
ors. and about forty farmers or men
directly interested in agriculture, The
Labor party consists of forty-two
members, of whom nearly all began
life as pit boys. factory hands, in the
hlacksnith's shop. or the iron foundry.
The oldest member of the House Is
eighty eight r. Cameron. one of the
representatives for Durham. Is also
over eighty, while there are nearly n
dozen septuagenarians: the youngest
members being Viscount Wolmer, son
and heir of the Earl of Selborne. and
the Hon. &. 7. Mills. son and heir OF
Lord HillinEdon. both of them being
a little over twenty-three.
Copyright, 1911, by tho Brentwood
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