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Show A YOUNG ENGLISH PEER. Duke of Lelnster, Premier of Ireland,1 fl Is 16 Years Old. V Tho duke of Lelnster Is one of the V youngest peers In King Edward's fl realm. He Is 18 years old and Is the fl premier peer of tho kingdom of Ire-1 fl land and head of tho groat Irlsn house fl of Fitzgerald, which for hundreds of I , yoara has played so conspicuous a I role In tho history of the emerald I Isle. He la a great grandnephow ofj I tho patriot, Loro. Edward, the hero and I martyr ot the '98 robelllon. During his I 1 school days the young peer was one I of the leading boys at Eton In all I sorts ot athletics, but he developed I signs of consumption, tho malady that I carried off both his father and mothor, I and left him the youngest duke In the I English peerago when barely 6 years I old, and now every precaution Is bolng I taken to preserve him for the great I ( things that may bo expected from one M of bis brilliant ancestry. fW |