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Grenadiers, not only one of the handsomest but 

 quite the most charming and methodical man I ever 

 came across. He is now private secretary to Queen 

 Alexandra. Pakenham of the Grenadiers and 

 Anson, the two A.D.C.'s to His Excellency the 

 Governor-General, also came to meet us, with sleighs, 

 and escorted us to Government House, otherwise 

 known as Rideau Hall, of which I reproduce a photo- 

 graph. Poor Anson, Lord Lichfield's brother, died 

 in 1904. He was Streatfeild's brother-in-law, Streat- 

 feild having married Lady Florence Anson ; and, as 

 Lady Florence and her brother were respectively 

 niece and nephew of Lady Lansdowne, there was 

 quite a family party at Government House. Lord 

 and Lady Lansdowne gave us all a very warm and 

 hearty reception. It was my first acquaintanceship 

 with His Excellency, and a very fortunate one for 

 me, as in after years when he became Secretary of 

 State for Foreign Affairs he showed me acts of kind- 

 ness for which I can never be sufficiently grateful. 

 For such advancement in my official career as I can 

 claim to have achieved, I am more indebted to him 

 than to any other Secretary of State under whom I 

 have served, not even excepting Sir Edward Grey. 

 Lord Lansdowne gave me the important post of 

 Superintendent of the Treaty Department of the 



