... speaker went on to refer, amidst laughter, to Lord Winchilsea as a politician, and said he was well known to Radicals and Socialists. The laughter was renewed when the speaker mentioned the noble earl's connection with the development of the allotment system ...

... Committee were the Marquis of Granby (a good golfer, and an ex-captain of the Tooting Bec Golf Club), Mr. John Burns, the Socialist member for Battersea (who, on the last two days of the inquiry wore a green patch on the left eye as the result of a blow ...