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Sir -- or to speak more correctly, the Right Honourable Sir T. Charles / Repton, Bart., M. V. O., O. M., Warden of the Court of Dowry, a man past / middle age but in the height of industry, sat at breakfast in his / house: a large house overlooking Hyde Park from the North, close to the / corner of the Edgware Road, and therefore removed by at least a hundred / yards from the graphic representation which marks the site of the old / Permanent Gallows that once stood at Tyburn.
I have said that he was Warden of the Court of Dowry, and the reader, / if she has any acquaintance with parliamentary affairs, will remember / that at the time of which I speak, the month of March, 1915, that post / commonly carried with it Cabinet rank. The experienced in political / matters will certainly induce that he was also in the House of / Commons. He sat there for Pailton, a borough which had been the last / to elect him after previous experiences in Merionethshire, Kirkby, / Bruton, Powkeley and the Wymp division of Dorset, in which last his / somewhat constrained and cold manner had perhaps led to his defeat.