In entering the Cabinet the Earl of Stanhope is maintaining a remarkable family record. The frst Barl—soldier and statesman—fought Spain under the famous Earl of Peterborough and was. subsequently foreign minister in the reign [George 1. The second Earl eschewed politics but was a distinguished mathematician and Fellow. of the Royal Society. "The third Earl was the brother-in-law of William Pitt, 2 mathematician like his father, and sympathizer with the Ideals of the such Revolution. The fourth Earl Was a scientist and his son the fifth Earl, in addition to. being Foreign Secretary, and the sponsor of the Copyright Bill was a notable historian, the biographer of William Pitt and the founder of the Stanhope Essay Prize at Oxford University. His second son Edward Stanhope carried on the family tradition by being Secretary of Slate for War in Lord Solisbury's administration of 1886 and his grandson the present and seventh Earl, after serving. in the Army with distinction in the South African and Great Wars, win-hing the DSO. and M.C. in the later campaign, has risen through var-fous minor posts to Cabinet rank as First'Commissioner of Works, These seven Earls of Stanhore between them cover 263 years of English history—a striking proof of the virile ity of tradition even in these democratic days,
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