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and beautiful gardens near Cannes, the time 

 passed very pleasantly until April 23, when they 

 returned to High Elms. 



During his absence he had been appointed 

 to the office of Foreign Secretary to the Royal 

 Academy, in succession to Mr. Lecky, and also 

 to the post of President of the Society of Anti- 

 quaries. 



While he assumed these additional burdens, 

 he had resigned the Presidency of the Association 

 of the Chamber of Commerce, Sir W. H. Holland 

 being appointed to succeed him. A vote of 

 thanks was passed to him for " the quite excep- 

 tional services you have rendered the Association 

 during your term of office " — a testimony to 

 the keen conscientiousness with which he always 

 carried out the manifold duties of this nature 

 which he undertook. \ 



On the 27th he writes : " Dinner to celebrate 

 my 70th birthday. All my children, Henry 

 and Mary, Neville, Conny and Edith, Monty 

 and Nora, Beaumont and Edgar, R. and Mary 

 Birkbeck, Ethel with Rolfe, Honoree and 

 Phyllis. Very thankful." 



On May 4 he was in the chair of the British 

 Empire League, when the Duke of Devonshire 

 resigned the presidency and Lord Derby was 

 elected in his place. On the 7th, in spite of its 

 being " very wet," he went over from Kingsgate 

 to Sandwich and took part in the Parliamentary 

 Golf Handicap : " Played against Stonor and 

 did a fair round, for me, but he won." 



Reference has been made already to his models 

 in sand and baize, showing the mode in which 



