Queens University - Tricolour Yearbook (Kingston, Ontario Canada)

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Like a large number of men who achieve success in busine». Kdward Robert Peacock was a son i the manse and. it is hardly necessary to add, was born poor. Me added to these great natural advantages by coining to Queen’s in the days when the University was small and the distractions of life somewhat less exacting than in this complicated age. He enjoyed the advantage of intimate association with the distinguish- ed group that Principal («rant had gathered round him in the nineties. Shorn. C'appon. Dupuis. Fletcher. Macnaughton. and of these especially with Shortt and C'appon. both of whose medals lie won. In after year he formed a close friendship with Shorn that terminated only with the death of the latter. Leaving Queen’s he became a Master at Upper Canada, leaving there to take up business in 1902 with the Dominion Securities Corporation. In 1908 when his Company desired to open a London office the choice fell on him. and for various reasons he lilted particularly well into the business world of London. Through Dominion Securities he became associated with the late !•’. S. Pearson, originator of enterprises in Brazil and Barcelona, and on the death of Pearson, who went down with the Lusitania. Peacock succeeded him as President of the Barcelona Company. In addition to his Brazilian and Barcelona connections, he also through the Dominion Securities came into touch with an important body of Knglish investors interested in Mexico, and through these various activities rapidly acquired an almost unique position in London. What is the secret of this career? Tennyson (I think) characterized the great Duke of Wellington as a man of “saving common sense.” Peacock has this same quality in a marked degree, and in business it is more valuable than any other. This and a great capacity for letting the other man talk first—the business equivalent for “keeping your own powder dry”—are per- haps two of his greatest assets. But beyond all that there is personality charm and poise and sympathetic understanding—and. best of all. loyalty to all the friendships of the day of smaller things.

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BESS BO ROUGH, 9th Earl (cr. 1739). Vere Brabazju Ponsonbv: Viscount Duncannon. 1723: Baron Ponsonbv, 1749. Baron Duncannon (U.K.), 1834. Born October 27. 1880. Eldest son of 8th Earl of Bessborough and Blanche V ere. G.B.E. (d. 1919). dan. of Sir John Guest, 1st Bart. Succeeded father, 1920. M. in 1912, Roberte de Neuflize, dan. Baron de Xeuflize. Two sons and one daughter. Educated: Harrow, Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A.) Called to Bar, Inner Temple, 1903. Late Lieut. Bucks Yeomanry. Contested Carmarthen Boroughs (U.), 1906: M.P. (C.) Cheltenham, Jan.-Dec. 1910: L.C.C. (M.R.) Marylebone East. 1907-10. Served during the Great War in Gallipoli, in 1915. and in France on the staff. 1916-18. G.C.M.G.. 1931: Chevalier of Legion d’Honneur: Orders of Ste. Anne, Russia: Leopold II. Belgium; SS. Maurice and Lazarus, Italy; and Redeemer, Greece. P.C., 1931: Hon. LL.D., McGill, Toronto. Ottawa. Montreal and Laval Universities. Heir, son Viscount Duncannon. Appointed Governor-General of Canada, March 20th. 1931. Address: Government House, Ottawa.