Evening star., 1923-09-12
Prince of Wales Is Credited
With Lifted Ban on Cattle

minister OF agriculture and founder
of the states. agricultural advisory
committee, as we'll as Lord Bledisloe,
one of the dominant figures Of the COM
mittee and the most influential cham
pion of British agriculture, have sew
cred their connection with the govern
ment.
1t has attracted no little comment
particular moment to appoint Lord
BIedisloe to be a member of the couh =
Gil of his Duchy OF Lancaster, which
is his entailed property, immune from
all parliamentary control and inter-
ference. The Duchy, of Lancaster,
which embraces property all over the
United Kingdom and large holdings In
the metropolis and agricultural land,
is an estate formed by King Henry
Nv, SO that in the event Of his family
ever losing the throne and the crown
property-the House of Lancaster is
descended from the royal John of
Gaunt-he should still. remain in the
possession of this huge estate Of
which the reigning sovereign is the
life owner, not in his capacity as
King of Great Britain, but as Duke
of Lancaster.
Lord sBledisloe won his spurs and
incidentally his peerage by his. serv-
ices. under the name of Sir Charles
Bathurst, as food controller and vice
president of the government agricui-
tural council in the great war He
has long been regarded in both houses
of parliament as the best representa-
tive of the interests OF those who live
in and by. the land. He endeavored
at one time to create an agricultural
party in both houses OF parliament
which would embrace members OF all
purpose of furtherlng and defending
the interests of agriculture. In
nowise discouraged by the failure of
his efforts in this connection, he is
now carrying on intensive farming as
a business at Lidney Park, 400 years
in his family and one of the most
beautiful places in GIoucestershire.
even to the extent of plowing up
the celebrated Lidney golf links, in
Sc ass Os e psy 'fa n Eassnd ss.S sae
all the handicaps to which 1t is sub
jected. ii
Like his kinsman, the Earl OF Bath
urst, he can show that his family
came to England in the Saxon era
that issto say, long before the Norman
SohQuSSt--AE0fu d place Chiied baIIerS
in the. German Duchy of Lunebufg.
They settled near Battle in Sussex at
q place which they called Battefs-
Hurst, which was eventually contract
ed to Bathurst, A Laurence Bathurst
hgares In history as having been at
tanned by Edward w, who eonfiscated
to the crown the Bathurst property
in Sussex. Ralph Bathurst was.
chaplain to Charles II and one of the
founders of the Royal Society Sir
Benjamin. Bathurst was treasurer of
the household OF Queen Anne, and his
son was. elevated TO the peerage as
the Earl OF Bathurst 1t was the
third earl who was the minister OF
the crown responsible for the con-
siEnfnent OF the first Napoleon to the
Island OF st. Helena, and, by q strange
.colneidehee, his grandson, the present
Earl Of Bathurst. as colohel Of the
Regiment, was ap-
pointed to the military command OF
the great Boer prison camp on the
Island OF ST. Helena, during the South
African war of quarter OF a century
ago. Lady Bathurst,s his wife, issthe,
owner of the London daily newspaper.
the Morning Post which she inherited
from her father, the late Lord Glenisk,
and Of which she retains the very.
active control and EnahaSement as
was recently testified by her principal
competitor, the late Lord
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