Evening star., 1923-11-28
Reference to Prehistoric Man
Cost Candidate Vote of Irish

been minister plenipotentiary and
colonial governor and consul general
and commander-in- chief Of colonial
| forces in Africa, and novelist and
playwright and a painter of sufficien,
talent TO have his pictures accepted
and exhibited at the Royal Academy
| IN London and at the Paris Salon
doctor of medicine. member of the
| Royal College of Surgeons and
heaven knows what more besides
But never yet member of parlia-
! ment. where one would imagine that
ms multlfarious experiences of every
kind in all parts of the world would
| prove welcome relief to the deadly
/ dullness of the ordinary Groning de-
| bates.
On one occasion he was induced by
Lord Northcliffe to stand for parlia-
ment, namely. for Rochester,. North
cliffe, who had become very enthusi-
asuc about him, guaranteed to get
him elected. Northcliffe did his share
but Sir Harry Johnston spoiled it ali
by interiarding his principal address
to the electors with what he consid-
cred to be a very interesting refer
ence to some skeletons then recently
discovered from calvarium in Coun-
ty Sligo, and which he declared to
point Iennb, to the the origin Of man and to; re;
type. An Icy silence followed his ad-
dress, in lieu of the applause which
he had expected. and then suddenly
huge Irish NAVY arose and gave
expression to his dissent of Sir Har-
rvs remarks as to the origin of man.
exclaiming, "As for the Irish, they
are Gods own people and never knew
an ape"
The Irish vote was a very powerful
one at Rochester and when the poll
ing took place two days later Sir
Harry found that he had lost 1t en-
n "a
calVartum and the Interpretation
placed upon 1t by his Irish members
or the constituency and that he had
been defeated by 500 votes. He never
tried again.
Sir Harry seems to have been
somewhat of a thorn in the side of
the missionaries in Africa and to
nave entertained views concerning
Christianity which were decidedly
unorthodox. For in one Of his jour-
Elizabeth .'on Ascension day, hy-
pothetical festival of the church that
l had almost entirely forgotten"
Lord Lathom, who is we'll known in
America, which he has visited on
several occasions with his widowed
sister. Lady Barbara Seymour, In or
der to recuperate from the wounds
Wnicn ne received nTSt or all at the
front in France and afterwards on
Gallipoli and in Palestine under Lord
Allenby, has just sold for q sum of
some $2,000,000 the estates in Ian
cashire from which he takes his
title. The manor Of Lathom is near
the town of that name and figures
In Doomsday Book. 1t belonged for
300 years to the house of Stanley. now
headed by Lord Derby.
The crowning glory of Lathom
House was that it withstood for four
months a siege by the parliamentary
army under Gen. Fairfax in 1914, be-
ing defended for King Charles by the
French wife of its then owner, James
seventh Earl Of Derby, K. G. She was
Charlotte de la Tramoille of the great
French ducal house of that name, Her
husband. captured after the battle of
Worcester, was sent to the scaffold
by Oliver Cromwell in 1851, his wild
ow surviving to witness the restora-
tion. A daughter and coheiress OF
the ninth Earl Of Derby. namely, Har-
riet (Lady Ashburnham), inherited
Lathom, with it's glorious old park
more than four miles in circumfer-
ence, and, after passing through one
or two hands. 1t was purchased by Sir
Thomas Boot1e, who bequeathed it to
his niece, the wife of Richard Will
braham. an ancestor of the present
Lord Lathom,