3-078-207 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Earl of Milltown, K.P., 1890. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. Fradelle and Young. 'This nobleman, one of the representative Peers of Ireland in the House of Lords, was the Right Hon. Edward Nugent Leeson, sixth Earl of Milltown, and Viscount Russborough. He was second son of the fourth Earl, having been born Oct. 9, 1835; but in 1871 he succeeded to the earldom of Milltown, his brother, the fifth Peer, an officer in the Army, dying unmarried. In the same year he married Lady Geraldine Evelyn Stanhope, younger daughter and coheiress of the fifth Earl of Harrington. As a member of the House of Lords, he obtained last year the assent of that House to his Bill for the amendment of the Larceny Act, which would empower her Majesty's Judges to add the punishment of flogging to burglars guilty of using firearms. But though it went down to the House of Commons, it never reached its second-reading stage. This year, however, his Lordship had reintroduced the Bill to the House of Lords.' From "Illustrated London News", 1890.