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Show BRITAIN'S NEW LORD. BT. JOHN tirtODrtlCK LANS-DOWNC'S LANS-DOWNC'S SUCCESSOR. lit la tha Hon nt U.rount Mlitilleton nnd llaa llarn In I'nMIe Ufa Klnra 1SS0 Only rorlr-rour Wara OIJ Harved tndar HecraUry Out. Mr. W St John llrodrlck was ono of tho "clever young men" of the Conservative Con-servative party In the 'early eighties." Though not, perhaps, a brilliant orator, ora-tor, he Is n keen debater, and has more than onco shown that ho can slate a case as clearly as any ot his colleagues on the Treasury bench, Kldest son of Viscount Mldleton, Mr. llrodrlck Is In his 44th year Ho received re-ceived his curly education at Eton, and later on at Oxford. I.Ike so many other oth-er men who havo shone In the political politi-cal world he took a prominent ttinro In the debatm ot the Union Society, of which he became president He also helped tn found the Canning club, which has long been the center of the new Toryism ot tho university. It was his good fortune to step straight from the presidential chair to a sett In the House of Commons, being returned re-turned unopposed for Went Surrey at the general election of 18S0, Doth In and out of Parliament Mr. llrodrlck was exceedingly Industrious and pains-tsklng, pains-tsklng, nnd It Is affirmed that bo was ono ot the few members who really rrastered the Intricacies ot the Irish lind bill On Jio pasting of tho He-ilttrlbutlon He-ilttrlbutlon act Mr. llrodrlck was elected for the Oulldford division of Surrey, snd he still represents that iconstltutney. Often It lias been said that Mr. llrodrlck came ot age, sat ifor his county, and got married all In one year, bill the statement la erroneous er-roneous True, the two latter events occurred In 1SS0. but that was nearly three years after he had attained hit majority. In June, 1885, Mr. Gladstone, resigned, owing to the memorable defeat de-feat on the Iludgct bill. Ere many months had elapsed the Conservative government were vanquished upon tho amendment of Mr. Jesse Colllngs to the Address, but tha homo rule proposals pro-posals of Mr. Oladstone speedily Installed In-stalled Lord Salisbury again In Downing Down-ing strrat. Then It was that Mr nrodrlck began JL -JtK fhSwrenUecahtp by serving as under sgetary to the war office, and he ro-trgaed ro-trgaed it that poet until the Unionists Wanted by the Radicals In finding hlmrelt In the shade of iPPotitlon, tho member for Guild-turned Guild-turned his attention to matters t" thtn military As the eldest ' a peer, he got Into "revolt" nil the Idea of men, on succeed-to succeed-to the title, being compelled to the House of Commons for thf House ot tards He assisted In proofing a bill to change this stato 4f inters, but without success, and he 6io the ouly one of the threo mu-Utfcnnow mu-Utfcnnow left In the lower Chamber, td Selbourne having been called to tht Upper House on tho death of his la&er.and Mr Curzon havlug become ifsnlrl.h peer, viceroy of India, It J tie hand of Mr. llrodrlck that rd fae cordite mine which blew up U Roscbcry government In June.1855. Aionce the queen sent tor Lord Sails- kU-JION ST JOHN DltODItlCK. itsry, who accepted office nnd nppealed lit Do country The noble marquis tartcd his third administration with Thure majority, and Mr lirodrlnk was ipruprlately appointed to the war Jcilc, at second In command to tord Iinjdowne nnd so successfully did ho jjtrform the duties of the position tiat no turprlse was evinced upon his fsmfer to the foreign offlce on the promotion of Mr Curzon to India. At tfcuUntnt to Lord Salisbury, tho nenrter for Oulldford tins acquitted Mmilr with complcto satisfaction |