Lord Dartmouth Retires as Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire

The Staffordshire Weekly Sentinel reports the welcome recently given to the new Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire, the Earl of Harrowby,' who succeeds Lord Dartmouth in this office which he had held since 1891. In introducing the new Lord Lieutenant the presiding officer, Sir Francis Joseph, said: "He follows a line of distinguished predecessors. It came as a shock to the people of this country when they were notified that the Earl of Dartmouth had found it necessary, by reason of increasing years, to give up that high office. We do not forget the services he has rendered, services in the affections of the people of this country which have secured for him an enduring place and a distinguished position in the county annals."

In replying the Earl of Harrowby paid the following tribute to Lord Dartmouth. "Let me here strike a personal note. I had great hesitation in accepting this office as His Majesty's representative in Staffordshire because I felt that I should have to fellow a Lord Lieutenant who is one of the most distinguished in England. Lord Dartmouth is a man of affairs, an orator with a great fund of humor, a man who is liberal with his purse, a man who has a great knowledge of character and of men, a man who is a glutton for work and who has devoted a large part of his life in serving his country and the county he loves so well."