The Government's new contribution to the perpetuation of a hereditary
peerage (for I believe all seven new members of the Upper House have sons to succeed them) is interesting. In the selection of, among others, Sir Edward Evans, of the 'Broke,' the Master of Banjo' and Mr. George Muff, who when Labour M.P. for East Hull visited Eton and found it very much to his taste, there is at least imaginative variety. About one new peer, Mr. William Piercy, the world knows less than it should. He is a friend, and former colleague at the School of Economics, of the present Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, a member of the Stock Exchange and a war-time civil servant, and owner of a beautiful and historic pre-Tudor house at Burford in Oxfordshire. Altogether the Upper House should gain
considerably by Mr. Attlee's latest reconunendations.
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