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[Illustration: PRESENT DAY. _From a Photo. by Alice Hughes, 52, Gower
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Lord Houghton, whose appointment to the post of Lord-Lieutenant of
Ireland came somewhat as a surprise, is a Yorkshire landowner, and a son
of the peer so well known both in literary and social circles as Richard
Monckton Milnes, whose poems and prose writings alike will long keep his
memory alive. This literary faculty has descended to the present peer,
his recent volume of poems having been received by the best critics as
bearing evidence of a true poetic gift. Lord Houghton, who served as a
Lord-in-Waiting in Mr. Gladstone's Government of 1886, is a rich man and
the reputed heir of Lord Crewe; he has studied and travelled, and has
taken some share, though hitherto not a very prominent one, in politics.
He is a widower, and his sister presides over his establishment.