STATESMEN. No. 236.

THE MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY.

GEORGE HENRY ROBERT CHARLES VANE TEMPEST, fifth Marquess and Earl of Londonderry, second Earl Vane, Viscount Seaham, and Baron Stewart, is a man of high position and great possessions. He studied the humanities at Eton and at Oxford, he sat in Parliament for North Durham during five years, and for eighteen he was known as Lord Vane, and his elder brother's probable successor in the marquisate. In the meantime he had married, and taken to his estates as a business, to yachting as an occupation, and to snuff as a pleasure. With the private acquaintance of all Society, and held for a man of much importance in the counties and the country, he has yet become but little known to the readers of newspapers; for although a strong and reliable Conservative, always ready to do his duty handsomely by his Party, he has taken little part in the public discussion of the affairs of his country. He has consequently never had a place or a ribbon offered to him that he could accept; and though honoured with the Order of St. Alexander Newski in Russia, he has not even received the Order of the Bath in his own country. He is nevertheless a most considerable personage; he owns much land, and many mines and quarries, which give employment to a vast number of labourers; he possesses a Volunteer corps of his own, and he has recently been elected Vice-Commodore of the Yacht Squadron. Withal he is urbane, accessible, and hospitable, though upon occasion he knows how to assert his dignity.