The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-13

'RANCIS DYKE ACLAND, who has
just been appointed Under Score
tary OF State for Foreign Affairs.
and who rs such will have TO answer
most frequently in the name of the
British government, in the House OF
Commons. questions about matters Of
foreign policy, Is the eldest son and
heir OF the Right Hon. Arthur Acland
who was Minister of Education in the
last Gladstone Cabinet. in which he
was colleague of Herbert Asquith
but was not included by the latter in
his Cabinet. nor yet In that formed by
the late Sir Henry Campbell Banner
man. Two years ago Arthur Acland
declined a peerage; not so much be-
cause he resented the manner in which
he had been treated in the distribution
OF Offices by Campbell Zimmerman and
by Asquith as owing to his reluctance
to exchange his place as heir to ono
of the oldest baronetcies for one at
the very tail end of the peers
The family of Acland is one of the
most ancient In Devon. and can be
traced in the male line direct by of
fetal records and without any inter
ruption. frop the present day back
TO the times OF Hugh Of Acalen, who
fourishcd at Acalen. in the Parish of
Land Key, Devon in the reign of King
Henry II.--that Is TO say, 500 years
ago. Sir Arthur Acalen, married to
daughter of the equally ancient house
OF Maiet' was great parsonage in
the days of Queen Elizabeth and his
son received his baronetcy from
Charles l., in 1914. for his devotion 10
the royal cause, and as the letters pat
ent were destroyed during the civil
war. new ones were granted by Charles
IL, In 1877. with n special clause of
precedence from the date OF the first
letters.
One OF the Aclands. John by name.
and commanding an English regiment
in the American War OF Independence
was accompanied to this country by
his wife, Lady Harriet, daughter OF
the Earl of Leicester, and just before
the surrender at Saratoga, when Col
1 onel Acland was lying dangerously
wounded, Lady Acland obtained a per-
nit from General Gates to pass through
the lines and to visit her husband al
ter almost losing her life during a
fierce ice and snow storm in an open
boat on the Hudson. The story of her
devotion and of her adventures was
recalled to mind on the occasion of
the visit to this country of the late
Sir Henry Acland. the famous scientist
and oxford University professor, who
accompanied King Edward throughout
his American tour forty-five years ago
in the capacity of his medical attend
ant to prevent him from being ban
quoted to death. So great were the
services which Sir Henry rendered to
medical science that he received a
| baronetcy on his own account. and
! that is why there are two baronetcies
now belonging to the Aclands. One
| of them belongs to Sir o4.arles Acland,
the head of the family. and to whose
| dignity his younger brother. the Right
Hon. Arthur Acland. will succeed on
! his death, as thirteenth baronet; while
! the other Acland baronetcy. created In
| 1890, is now held by Admiral Sir VIII
! liam Acland. whose wife. daughter
| of Viscountess Hambleden, Is a novel
| list of considerable fame, one OF her
best known books being The Lost
! Key the scene OF which Is laid in
! Malta. where the admiral spent so
J many years with her while connected
with the English naval forces In the
| mediterranean. AS her brother, the
| future Lord Hambleden, is the head
of the great publishing house of w.
| II. Smith e Sons, which enjoys the
i virtual monopoly of the sale .of hooks
! and publications in all the railroad
! stations of the United Kingdom. her
| novels naturally have large sale.
Another member Of the Acland fam