The Washington herald., 1911-10-23
FIRST TIME PHYSICIAN Is
LORD MAYOR OF LONDON

er," is the present lord mayor of Lon
| don, having been elected by the Livery
men" of the City of London, end of last
month, for the term of one year to that
high office. There have been plenty of
medical mayors in England, and possibly
even one or more lord mayors. but never
| before a medieval holder of the chief
magistracy of the City of London, a post
OF such celebrity as we'll as dignity that
the incumbent ranks higher than the cab
met ministers in political Importance.
The fact that no medical man as yet
has attained to the office of lord mayor
in that great city is not remarkable, in
view of the engrossing nature of the
profession of medicine, and of the
amount of municipal work which must
be performed before a would-be-lord be-
comes eligible even for appointment. Sir
Thomas Crosby is a member and late
president of the Hunterian Society and
former demonstrator of anatomy at
the famous st. Thomas Hospital in Lon
don. He has received a number Of for
eign decorations and was knighted in
1907 the year in which he served as
sheriff
The name of Crosby is a notable ona
in the annals Of tie city of London. 1t
was Sir John Crosby, who was elected
sheriff OF London in 141 and knighted
the same year, that built the recently
demolished Crosby Hall of so many men,
ories. But as he died in 1875, he enjoyed
his sumptuous home only n very short
time After passing into the possession
of King Richard III, Crosby Hall was
purchased by Sir Bartholomew Read. who
kept his mayOral court there in 1901. Its
next owner also was a lord mayor, Sir
John Bert, elected in 1516.
The presentation of the newly elected |
sheriffs of London and Middlesex for |
the approval Of the King on the day |
after Michaelmas formerly was the ocCa- |
sion of certain curious ceremOnials. The /!
new officers proceeded TO the court of |
the eXchequer and after the usual form !
alities had been gone through. the crier |
OF the court made proclamation for one
who did homage for the sheTlffs of Lon |
don to stand forth and do his duty"
The senior alderman then rose, and. TAX
ing n bill hook cut asunder a bundle OF .
sticks. Similar proclamation then was
made for the sheriff OF MiddleseX. when
the alderman sOlemnlv counted over six
horseshOes lying on the table and sixty
one bob nails which were handed him
in tray.
BY the first ceremony the alderman
did Service and suit for the tenants
Of a manor in Shropshire belonging to
the corporation Of London and by the
second for the owners of the City Forge,
which stood formerly by St. Clement
Danes in the Strand.
Sir Henry Stafford. created Baron
Northcote in 1900 second son OF the Earl
of IddesleiGh, the latter remembered as
Sir Stafford NorthCOte. leader in the
House Of Commons during Beaconsfeld's
administration GN4 TO 1850, is dead at
Ashford. aged siXty-four. He served many
years as his fathers private secretary.
At the age Of forty he was appointed
financial secretary to the British war
Office. which position he occupied until
ii was abolished. His next post was
that of surveyor general Of ordnance for
the army, and in 1893 he was made gov
ernor OF Bombay During the past
nine years he was Conservative mem
her for Exeter. In 1903, some eight
cen months before the expiration of his
term, the late Lord Northcote retired :
from his post at Bombay to become the
hTst British governor general of the new
commonwealth of Australia. In that po-
sition he made himself very popular with
the people Of that country and Travelled
TO a great extent in order thoroughly TO :
tamiIldrize himself with men and condi-
lions.
tn" great antiquity and eminent re-
spcctab.lity of the NOTthCote family are 7
proven clearly by an ancient pedigree. ,
preserved at the College of Arms, which q,
S accompanied by a number of family
deeds and wills, to several Of which are
iihNed the family seals Of arms. The
Irst ancestor of record was Galfridus =
Miles, who had his seat at Northcote, in :
Devon in the year ll03. the third year :
Dt the reign of Henry l. As the result :
)f the marriage OF John de NorthcOte. '
n l343 to the sole heiress of Sir William 5
e Prouse, the family gained great pos :
sessions, which it has retained ever since
A Paris fashion journal has made it its
business to study the bills which the
wives and mothers Of reiEning monarchs l
pay to modistes and milliners, and has
arrived at the conclusion that in Europe /
a single royal woman is we'll "
dressed. This arbiter Of fashion declares :
hat the German Empress is the best d
1ressed woman who shares a throne. :
This statement must be taken as sin
ere, because the German Empress never
goes to Paris for her gowns CT headgear, n
'ut patronizes Berlin, Vienna, or London.
Besides, she spends only a paltry 5000 g
marks a year on her wardrobe But It .
must not be forgotten that she is sup a
posed to be thrifty and frugal, like all :
German housewives 4.
The expert on modes declares that, +
barring Queen Mary of England, Queen \
Vilhelmina of Holland is the worst U
dressed sovereign lady Queen Mary ex- Fl
Dends $4,000 year for her gowns: Queen ,
Nilhelmina $4,000. The Queen Of Hol- !
and, the only woman ruler in her own
light IS criticised as showing poor taste.
The blame is laid partly on the Dutch a
lressmakers, whom she favors with the II
oyalty that always distinguished her l
'eople. Tho critic offers some advice to
queen Wilhelmina, who is only thirty
me and who should shine as the exem F
liars and model of good taste, the writer
ssertS. r
ut the temperament OF both her native =
nd adopted country. She is sixty-seven
ears old, and the mourning she wears
low is infinitely better suited TO her fig
Ire and style than the gowns that a
dorned her before King Edwards death. g
'hus, the critic flies in the face OF all n
he English, who have sworn that Alex IL
ndra was the best dressed woman in b
he world. .
Queen Mary is pronounced to be
trump" in almost so many words.
The costumes of Queen Helena of Italy p
ost her $4,000 annually. She orders her Il
owns in Paris. They are quiet in tone