The Birthday Honours issued on Friday cannot be described as
in any way notable. There are four new Peers,—Mr. Michael. Biddulph, a partner in Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., the well-known bankers, who sat in Parliament for several years as a Liberal Unionist; Sir Edward Lawson, the proprietor of the Daily Telegraph; Mr. Sotheron-Estcourt, a large land- owner in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire; and Mr. Watson- Armstrong, the nephew of the late Lord Armstrong, and the head of the great Elswick firm. Sir Arthur Charles and Sir Ralph Knox are made Privy Councillors; and baronetcies are conferred on Sir Marcus Samuel, Sir A. Hickman, M.P., Mr.
Brocklehurst, Mr. Cory-Wright, Major Reach, and Mr. Wilson-Todd, M.P. There is a fairly long list of Knights- Bachelor, and numerous promotions in the Bath and other Orders, but none of them call for any special comment.
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