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The Over Seas Club. 



VISIT OF MR. AND MISS 

 WRENCH. 



M r. Evelyn 

 W rench, accom- 

 panied by his sis- 

 ter, is now in 

 Australia, on a 

 world tour, un- 

 dertaken as Hon- 

 orary Organiser 

 ol the Over-Seas 

 Club. Both these 

 s ions of an an- 

 cient Irish family 

 are tremendous- 

 1 y enthusiastic 

 about the great 

 development of 

 the idea of the 

 Over -Seas Club 

 and the splendid 

 possibilities be- 

 fore it. Their 

 charming person- 



al;. EVELYN WRENCH, [Melba. 



Honorary Organiser of the Over Seas Club. 



alities have won them a host of friends 

 in every section of our widespread Em- 

 pire, and wherever they go, new life is 

 enthused into the members of the Over- 

 Seas. 



Mr. Wrench is the only surviving son 

 of the Rt. Hon. F. S. Wrench, of 

 Ballybrack, in Ireland. Mr. Commis- 

 sioner Wrench has taken a orominent 

 part in Irish affairs for the last forty 

 years. As senior of the three Estates' 

 Commissioners, appointed in 1903, he 

 has been largely responsible for the 

 successful working of the ate Mr. 

 George Wyndham's Irish Land Act, 

 under which State advances arc made 

 to tenants to purchase their holdings 

 an Act which has done mo re to en 

 a happy and contented [relan ! than 



any passed by 

 any English Par- 

 liament before or 

 since. The Hon- 

 orary Organiser 

 of the O.S. Club 

 received his name 

 from Field Mar- 

 shal Sir Evelyn 

 Wood, who is his 

 godfather. H e 

 was educated at 

 Eton, and then 

 went to Germany. 

 His energy and 

 desire to be " up 

 and doing " at 

 once forced him 

 to give up what 

 would undoubt- 

 edly have been a 

 brilliant Univer- 



sity career, and to plunge forthwith into 

 active business life in the great metro- 

 polis. His interests were becoming more 

 and more Imperial, and at the age of 

 twenty-one he was appointed editor 

 of the Over-Seas Daily Mail, and was 

 thus brought into close touch with Em- 

 pire builders throughout the world. 

 His many visits to Canada made him 

 a close personal friend of Earl Grev, 

 and his travels in the United States, 

 Central America, North Africa, and 

 in Europe gave him a wide know- 

 ledge of world problems. Lord North- 

 el iffe, the head of the greatest pub 

 lishing house in the world, is him- 

 seli a keen Imperialist, and hailed 

 with enthusiasm Mr Wrench's sug- 

 gestion ^\ the creation of some or- 



