April 20, On appointment as Governor of Victoria in 1895, the first Earl Brassey, owner of that famous world-traveller the Sunbeam and son of the Thomas Brassey, railway pioneer, who built the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, took with him 5 alde-de-camp his son-in-law Preeman-Thomas. Mr. Freeman-
Thomas had captained Eton and Cambridge and played for Sussex at cricket and was understood to have political ambitions in the Liberal Party, his mother being the daughter of Mr, Speaker Brand, afterwards the first Viscount Hampden, the choice of title marking descent on the distaff side from John Hampden who fell at Chalgrove and was immortalized by Thomas Gray. On return from Australia, Mr. Freeman-Thomas boldly stood and was returned as liberal for Hastings in the Khaki" election of 1900—no mean achievement. His personality won him recognition in the appointment jas a whip in 1905, and, within a year, he had the satisfaction of seeing his Party record the greatest triumph of its career in the election of 1908, when he himself transferred his allegiance to the safer Liberal seat of Bodmin. As
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