Last Monday's Honours List does not invite many comments, but
from one at least I cannot refrain. There was general expectation that Dr. Scott Lidgett would have been made a peer and universal agreement that nothing could be more desirable or appropriate. As it is he becomes a Companion of Honour. It is, of course, possible that Dr. Lidgett was offered the peerage and declined it, but I should be surprised to hear that that was so. As to qualifications the first President of the united Methodist Church needs no others, and his a2pointment would have created no precedent (till the next Church union comes), but in fact Dr. Scott Lidgett's years of service on the London County Council and as Vice- Chancellor of London University—to name only two of the many reoles he has filled—gives him as good a right as any. Bishop can claim to a seat in the Upper House.
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