Evening star., 1923-11-16
English Primate Possesses
Right to Present Degrees

the door for the admission Of that
conversation in your direct examina-
tion. In determining a question of
contested testimony In the divorce
case. II may be added tina Judge
Cranes feat was quite as successfully
accomplished as the display of ami
dexterity of Lord Phillimore and Of
his colleague Of the English bench
above mentioned.
! Still more remarkable than these
two English Judges. was the late Sir
Edwin Landseer. the celebrated
painter and Royal Academician. who
, also sculptured the lions that keen
guard over the Nelson monument in
! London's Trafalgar Square. For. ac-
cording to Queen victoria's own tes-
timony, recorded in her printed "iour-
mails. Sir Edwin. on one Npccasion.
drew. in her presence and in the pres
ence of her husband, one sketch with
his right hand and totally different
one with his left hand at one and the
same time. Her royal consort was so
much struck by this remarkable gift
of ambidexterity possessed by Land
seer. VINO was frequent visitor at
Balmoral, at Osborne and at Wind
sor, that he insisted upon all his chill
dren being brought up to use their
! left hands with the same degree of
dexterity as their right hands. Prin-
cess Louise, widowed Duchess of Ar
gyll. who is as gifted in pictorial as
in plastic art. can paint and model
just as cleverly with her left hand as
with her right.
Lord Phillimore is very rich and de-
rives a large incom. from extensive
real estate holdings in London. He
inherited baronetcy from his father.
His grandfather, Joseph Phillimore.
NJ. P, was chancellor of the dioceses
Of oxford. Worcester and of Britain.
as well as the regius professor OF
civil law at the University of Oxford,
all offices in which he was succeeded
| by his son. the late Sir Robert Philli-
more. the lifelong friend of Gladstone,
judge of the court of arches and last
judge Of the historic court of the lord
high admiral of the realm Lord
Phillimore is his son, and is married
to a daughter of the great legal house
of Lushington. niece of that old Sir
Stafford Northcote Of Devonshire, who
died as the Earl Of Iddesleigh.
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Lord Phillimore is the greatest Iiv-
ing authority on British judicial mil
linery and on one memorable eocca-
sion, when presiding at the presenta-
ton OF prizes at a great girls school
at York, took occasion to deliver an
address on the subject of the sump-
tuary adornments of his office. He
pointed out that the robes of English
judges were originally priests gar
ments, the clergy being. in olden
times: the only men of sufficient
learning to act as judges to problems
too intricate and difficult for the great
barons of the realm. The scarlet
gown, he declared, was nothing more
nor less than casSock, and the err
mine cape. The black girdle, or
,, sash, which he wore, and the stole
were originally the priests cincture
and the deacon's stole. The wig, he
added, was relic Of the reign of
Charles II, when grave men, such as
prelates and judges, wore gray pow
dersd wigs in contradistinction to the
| courtiers, and, lastly, the black cap,
such, as Sir Thomas, More, when he
went to the stake, wore, and which
the judg dges of the high court only don
10 meet the lord mayor of London or
death, had been worn by the clergy
prior to the reformation and also sub
sequent thereto. Lord Phillimore
wound up his lecture by explaining to
his female audience that the judges
robes were mot donned for the pur-
pose of gratifying their vanity, or
merely for the sake of dressing up,
but in order to impress both the
wearer and others with the awe and
| majesty of the law
Lord Phfllimore, as may be gath
cred from this address to school
girls and from the satisfaction which
he always found in matters of judi
cial attire, never suggested that
| sturdy virility which characterizes
the majority of the .wearers of the
ermine in Great Britain and which
| tends to humanize their pronounce
Judges. such as the late Lord Chief
tice Chitty, were famous throughout
i athletes. Lord Phillimore is less ro-
and on one occasion, when he was
presiding at the admiralty court and
| a rough, breezy pilot was called upon
| to testify as to the reproaches which
he had addressed to the man at the
wheel for misconstruing orders-re-
proaches that were -couched in true
sailorlike and. consequently. highly
colored language-Lord Phillimore
looked quite panied and shocked, and,
| turning to the witness, remarke ed !:
| my good man! Why do you use
| such horrible and appalling language? +?
Could you not have said to him, You
goose. You goose! You goosey Do
not you see that you are making q
mistake?"
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