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Updated: June 19, 2025
He is almost mechanically just; he has something of the terrible quality of a machine. The man who is really wild and whirling, the man who is really fantastic and incalculable, is not Mr. Shaw, but the average Cabinet Minister. It is Sir Michael Hicks-Beach who jumps through hoops. It is Sir Henry Fowler who stands on his head.
For many years this has been a farmhouse, but it has recently been restored by its owner, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, who intends to make it his country abode. A piece of carved stone with four heads was discovered by the workmen engaged in the restoration, and is to be placed over the front door.
It is doubtless a remnant of an old monastery, and dates back to Norman times. Williamstrip House and Park lie on your right-hand side as you leave the village of "Coln" behind you. This place also belongs to Sir Michael Hicks-Beach; it has always seemed to us the beau-ideal of an English home.
In fact, the Sunday-school took up a considerable part of the day," J.H. OVERTON, The English Church in the Nineteenth Century. Grandfather of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, M.P. Son of the 10th Duke of Somerset. We now approach what was perhaps the most important event in Sydney Smith's life, and this was the foundation of the Edinburgh Review.
The memorial addressed to Lord Carnarvon, dated January 7, 1878, praying for repeal of the annexation, was 'signed by 6,591 qualified electors out of a possible 8,000, as is explained in the letter of the Transvaal delegates to Sir M. Hicks-Beach dated July 10, 1878.
A hostile motion was offered by Sir M. Hicks-Beach, and Mr. Gladstone declared that the Cabinet would resign if defeated. Many Liberals were absent when the vote was taken, regarding a majority for the Ministry as certain, but the amendment was carried June 9th by a vote of 264 to 252, and the Premier and his colleagues resigned.
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