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...fourth score of years, likes to say; "I can still do my five miles in jig time on a tricycle, and how many of your young people can?" As a private collection, the Earl's gallery of historic oil paintings at Croome Court is second to few. His boasts???he has been twice Captain of the King's Gentlemen-at-Arms, twice Master of Royal Buckhounds. Though a staunch Conservative he is on friendly terms with Liberal Leader David Lloyd George, now "Father of the House of Commons" (i. e., not the oldest member, but the one longest a member?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: House of Loafers | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

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