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Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, is most picturesque of the four. Reared in that fin-de-siècle British atmosphere that supplied Margot, Viscountess Oxford & Asquith with long, pendent earrings, Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde with a sunflower boutonnière and Winston S. Churchill with a paunch, Montagu Collet Norman affects a soft felt hat, bow necktie and a superbly pugnacious goatee. Like his contemporaneous compatriots his wit is keen, his thinking sharp, his knowledge authoritative. Born in 1871, he has been Governor of the Bank of England since...
...many know, the British Treasury usually remits the "patent fee" to men so distinguished as World War General Baron Byng of Vimy. For example, the Earls of Oxford and Asquith, Balfour, and Birkenhead all received "remissions" of between ?2,255 ($10,813) and ?330 ($1,603), at the time of their creations. In the case of Viscount Byng, it would seem, someone in His Majesty's Treasury has blundered...
Baron Carson, (Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Henry Carson) onetime (1917) First Lord of the Admiralty: "[Lord Oxford and] Asquith is like a drunken man walking along a straight line-the farther he goes the sooner he falls." T. P. O'Connor, "Father of the House of Commons": "[Of the Empress Frederick of Germany I may say that] her breadth of mind was masculine in its depth...
Liberal M.P.'s mostly seemed content. But the chief Liberal peers, headed by Viscount Grey of Fallodon, announced next day that they had formed "the Liberal Council," really a new party with a separate headquarters and pledged to support the policies of Lord Oxford and Asquith who resigned (TIME, Oct. 25) as Leader of the Liberal party on account of disagreements with Lloyd George...
Finally England and the U. S. are being diverted by an anonymous "hoax book,"* in which the late King Edward VII receives praise for his high living and higher diplomacy, and almost everyone else from Cecil Rhodes to Margot Asquith and from Lord Kitchener to Lord Northcliffe is flayed and tittle-tattled about...