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...Chair after having been "in trade" (in business). Modest yet inflexible, he last week retired as a commoner entitled to a pension of £4,000 ($19,440) a year, having risen from the nonentity of a poor cotton spinner. His successor is Speaker the Rt. Hon. Edward Algernon Fitzroy, son of Baron Southampton, one-time Page of Honor to Queen Victoria, but now called "Mr. Speaker" and ranking as "First Commoner of the Realm...
Gesturing again, the silent Clerk pointed to a Conservative M. P., Sir Robert Sanders, who promptly nominated for the Speakership another Conservative, Captain the Rt. Hon. Edward Algernon Fitzroy, son of Baron Southampton, and onetime Page of Honor to Queen Victoria...
Acclaim. The Commons, warming to a ceremony which would last for many hours, elected by acclaim as Speaker onetime Queen's Page Fitzroy, now a grizzled War veteran of 58, wounded at Ypres and Klein Zillebecke. He, with a coy modesty demanded by ritual, first demurred at the too-great honor, and then submitted himself to what is known as the Superior Judgment of the House...
Still faintly resisting in dumb show, Captain Fitzroy was then led by his Conservative Nominator and Laborite Seconder, who jointly conducted him to the Chair. He was now the Speaker-Elect. The Sergeant at Arms, Admiral Sir Colin Keppel, could and did remove the enormous Mace from under its table and placed it upon the table...
During the next 24 hours Speaker-Elect Fitzroy became Speaker-very gradually. He listened and replied to speeches of grandiose laudation from all Parties. He was appraised by His Majesty's Government that the Sovereign had approved his election. Donning court dress, he marched to the Bar of the House of Lords and conveyed news of his election to Their Lordships. While he countermarched back to the House of Commons, famed Joy Bells rang out from St. Margaret's Church across the way. Finally Sir Edward Algernon Fitzroy donned over his court dress the robe...