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The Bullingdon Grind": Twelfth Night: Sir William Morris And His Peerage Sir Roger Keyes: The Grand National

(Special Air-Mail Service)

TWELFTH NIGHT

London, January 10.

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now, the club rooins were premitted to remain open

A piquant site is lent to the adalt when it is remembered that Lord Irwin, the Chancellor of the University, is an old member, while his son, Mr. Charles' Wood, is a member of the committee.

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PORTSMOUTH.COMMAND

CHANGE.

London, January 10, The change in the post of Com- mander-in-Chief at Purtsmouth, an- nounced in "The Times" on June 17. ∙last, will take effect on Wednesday; January 17. The flag of Admiral Sir John Kelly, G.0.9.0., K.C.B It is to be hoped that the

will be hoisted on that date in such superstitious took down their holly

ship as the retiring Commander- last everting. which to speak

in-Chief may select. Admiral Sir strictly, was Twelfth Night,

Arthur, Walstell, KCB, will strike By a pardonable

his flag at sunset on January 17, confusion. Twelfth Night

and the flag öf Adıniral Kelly will ceremonies are often performed on Twelfth Day-

Mr. George Mercer-Nafine, step-be transferred to the shore on the to-day, the Feast of the Epiphany.

sor of Major "J. Astor, is It ta dad that so many of these president, and the secretary 19 convivial rites have fallen into

Lord Hopetoun, elder son of Lord disuse. How agreeable, for fns-Linlithgow. A tance, must have been the orchard. parties formerly customary in t Devonshire, with their, refresh- ments of cake and hot clder!..

One strange, if tenuous Twelfth Night association is that of Royal gambling. Charles I, opened the revels in 1881 by throwing the dice, and lost his £100. Evelyn nates. In January, 1731, according to the Gentleman's Magazine" of that date, "their Majesties, &c. plasma at, hazard for the benent of the room-porter.”

SIZ WILLIAM MORRIS'S TITLE

Sir Willian Morris has, as I anticipated, based the name by which he wishes to be known as a peer on his, connection with Huntercombe Golf Course.

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CO.

Fears ago he became a considerable Fiandowner in Oxfordshire; The Sparish of Nuffield, - now to be [pecmanently associated with his i game," "has much" to, thank him

When Farat knew W. R. M not in his early days when he cared for "F. E's bicycle in Ox- ford, but just before the war, when *Morria-Oxfords were beginning. to nose their way into the motor-car market he lived in a delightful old house adjoining his works at Cowley.

THE PORTSMOUTH BY-ELECTION

following day.

小 „Captain L. D. I. Mackinnon will serve as Chief of Staff and Main- tenance Captain. under the new Commander-in-Chief, succeeding W. F. Mark-Wardlaw, DA.0. Cap- tair MacKinnon has just paid off North Portsmouth is I hear, to the Warspite, in which he has been have a chance of electing an out-Flag Captain and Chief Staff officer and out naval man in succession to Sir Bertram Falle who after the Second Battle Squadron. Cap- to Rear-Admirai R, M.. Colvin in

33 years of Parliamentary assocía-tain MacKinnon was promoted to tion with the borough is going commander for service at Jutland. to the House of Lords.

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes is, I learn, to go before the executive of the local association as first choice for nomination as Conservative candidate. He will do so with strong local support including that of the departing member for the division.

where he was first and 'gunnery leutenant-commander of the In- domitable. He was reappointed to her unti August, 1917, when he be- came axecutive officer of the Bar-

ami. Promoted to captain in 1923, after being commander at Devon- port Barracks, he commanded the repair ship Assistance in 1924-26; Sir Roger should make a useful the cruiser Danae in China in addition to the ranks of ex-navui | 1927-28; was Deputy Director of omcers in the House, which al-Training and Staff Duties in 1928- ready. include Vice Admiral Gor- 30 and Captain of the Fleet to don Campbell, VC. ind Rear Admiral Chatheld in the Mediter- Admiral M. P Buber, as well as ranean in 1930-32.

a number beldur bagfrank

NEW TACTICAL COURSE

A PIQUANT POSSIBILIT

A new term at the Tactical If adopted and elected he will School opens to-day and will-con- be following in Portsmouth's fradi- tinue until March 18. These cour: tion of having a dockyard man asses at the school in South Terrace, one of its MP's. Sir Bertram Portsmouth Dockyard, are open to Falle has been a powerful suppor-

ter of dockyard interests, and suc- ceeded to the seat on the eleva tion to the House of Lords of the late Charlle" Peresford.

I wonder whether Rear-Admiral

executive officers of the rank of commander and above; and two vacancies in each are usually re- served for R.A.F. oicers nominated

by the Air Ministry,

Omcers to attend the course in-

clude the following Captains. R.N With increasing productivity K. G. B. Dewar will again con-C. Hammill, FH W. Goolden... Cowley bécame too noisy, and test the seat for the Socialists. C. B. Barry, D.8.0., D. B. Fisher. Should he do so, the situation OBE G. D'Oyly-Hughes, DS.O.. would be decidedly piquant.

he and Mrs. Morris took up residence in the club house at Huntercḍmbe, eighteen miles' away. When prospective changes in the club organisation threatened the continuance of this arrangement he stepped in and bought up the club.

HIS COTTAGE HOME

It was probably the most am- bitious personal purchase of his "life. For his home he choose a tiny gardener's cottage, so placed that every allced ball off the first tee crashed into his garden.

Admiral Dewar was comman ding the Royal Oak at tht time of the incident which led to a famous court-martial, and Sir Roger Keyes was then C.-in-C. of the Medlier-.. ranean Fleet.

AMERICANS AND

DS.C. Bir Atwell H. Lake, Bt., 0.3. E... V. A. C. Crutchley. V.C. D.B.C.. C. Coppinger, D.S.C., and C, Moody,

RETURN OF THE KENT

The programme proposed for the return home of HMS. Kent, Captain AV Willis, DS.O., shows that she will leave "THE NATIONAL” (“

Penang on February 15 and call American interest in our Grand at Colombo, February 20-22; Aden. National is probably as great as March 1-2; Suez, March 7; Port ever it was. That the list of en- Said, March 7-3, Malta, March 11- tries published this week contains 13; and Gibraltar, March 17: aṛṛiv- the names of so few American-ing at Sheerness on March 22 and owned horses is no doubt a re- Chatham on March 23. The Kent

of

financial is to refit as well as recommission before she returns to China. Mean- here.

There are only four Americans, while the Admiral's flag will fly in

all well-known, race-goers the Suffolk. over here, who have entered horses this year. They are Mr. "Jack" whitney, Mr. George M. Bostwick,

"W. R. M." cared little. By 6.30 every morning-well ahead nection of the slicers he was on his way situation.

to the works. ~

Later he enlarged the cottage by adding a new wing. But the addition was on lines so modest that the millionaire's home re-

mained a cottage and nothing

more.

PROCTORS AND BULLINGDON CLUB

A member of the Oxford Bulling-

next term

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NO. "GRIND" THIS YEAR:

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NEW DRAFTING COMMANDER

Commander E. W. B. Sim, who Mr. F. Ambrose Clark, whose wife commanding the destroyer Wolf- was promoted in June last after won the race last year with Kells-hound in the 6th Flotilla, is to take boro' Jack, and Mrs, C."8. End,

BURLINGTON HOUSE

up duty to-day as Drafting Com- mander at Devonport, in succes-

A feeling common to the most sinn to Commander T. G. Harrison,

don Club, perhaps the most famous knowledgeable of the art lovers' I who has been there since October, of University aporting societies, tells me that the festivities of met at the Private View of the 1931. Commander Sim entered Os- the club are likely to be curtailed British Art Exhibition at Burling-borne in January, 1912, and went ton House is that the show is not to sea from Dartmouth when the Fleet mobilized for war. He was Following the suppression of the suficiently representative. Communist October Club and the Everyone must rejolee at the midshipman of the cruiser Amp- banning of "free speech" meetings, opportunity of seeing so many hitrite and the battleship Barham, the Proctors "suspended" the Bull- masterpieces from private collec- and became a sub-lieutenant in Ingdon Club for. two terms..

tions, but one cannot help regret January, 1918, after which he join- ting that the State salleries were ed the destroyer Exe as second-in- unable to lend. An Act of Parlia- from January, 1920, he was p

command. Promoted to lieutenant It now emerges that the effect meet would be necessary to re pointed to the stan at Dertmouth that Proctors' ruling will lease, for instance, those splendid March, 1927, and resumed sea prevent the holding of next term's Hogarths from the Boane Museum duty, in February 1929, in com- festive dinner sad the club's The Louvre has lent two works mand of the destroyer Sterling. annual steeplechase the Bulling of art which is two more than China Station

the National Gallery. One of them The dinner is always celebrated is the right leaf of an ivory With a certain enthusiasm and is diptych. a, very beautiful corona- advisedly held outside the city tion of the Virgin: The left leat medieaval English drinking-hezza

stili surviving. It terms, dinner was followed 15 in the British Museum.

It belongs to the rare "' ten- by a release of fireworks in

SPORTING PICTURES * - **r Magdalen College, At the height, One section which is certain to year" class, used in the payment of the proceedings an eminent be extremely popular is the room the tenant alled it with mead of of a sinecure. rent. Every, decade authority rushed from his rooms of sporting pictures. There were wine for his overlord fung and put out what was described many expressions of regret that the double duty of service to me as the finest rocket of the more space could not be found for quittance o

such exhiblia, which represent so The Prime Minister has sent s Whereupon the authority, who lively and lovable a vem in Bri-landscape by Julius Caesar Ibbet- had rented unrecognised, suffer-tish art. ed the same fate as the rocket.

don "Grind.”

Limit

season."

A 1925 PRECEDENT

In particular George Stüb whore praises the most diverg

For this offence, perpetrated by of critics unite to sing is but an old member, the Vice-Chancel- poorly honoured:

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their sentence.

promulgated

WINE AS RENT Lord Lee of Fareham showed me In 1925 a similar suspension some of the treasures he has lent Was imposed for a year," and thèn, which include one of the few

and

som which should dray attention to the talents of that artist. The picture is a view of Harrow from Kuburn now: hardly a landscape- -painted in 178144 AN

Ibbetson, a Yorkshireman, WASIK boon companion of that, erratic semjus: George. Morand, and was much infidenced by bim.

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