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Show TITLE IS DISDAINED BY RETIRED CLERK Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON, Jan. 8L Dublin has the din-tlnctlon din-tlnctlon of having a citizen who could be an earl of the kingdom, uhould ha wish to claim the tltlo. The man la Richard John Leeaon. a bachelor and retired re-tired clerk, who In now over 60 years of ago. Should he claim hlB title, he would be the eighth earl of Mllltown, The Beventh earl died some time agu. and bin wife, who preserved the title of countess, died recently. The counteajj waa the last to hear tho Mllltown title. When the last earl of Mill town died there were two claimants to the title, but one haa since died, leaving: Mr. Lee-son Lee-son tho cole claimant. Asked If ho Intended taking any eteps In tho matter, Mr. Looson replied In the negative. "I would have done so long ago," he nald, "If there wore any estate going with the title. It Ib an awfully expensive business to eHtablloh a title. One person told me It would cost ?GO00 and another friend said It might cost 525,000 before the lawyers were finished. 1 1 have not tho monoy to spare, eo I shall not make tho claim. ' |