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Sip Donald Currie’s Successor,After a lengthy and meritorious parliamentary career, Sir Donald Currie, the eminent shipowner and director of the Castle Line of steamers, has determined to retire at the next general election, which, the man in the street says, is to take place early next year. His successor has already been ohosen, and the new Unionist candidate for West Perthshire will he Mr. John Stroyan, of Ochtertyre House, near Crieff, Perthshire, and Saxon Hall, Palace Gate, London. Mr. John Stroyan is a sturdy, stalwart, rubicund Scotsman of about forty-five years of age. For about twenty years he was a merchant in South Africa, and was interested with the late Mr. Barnato in many of his most successful enterprises. He is a very rich man, but modest withal, and now that he has retired from business, he intends to devote himself to parliamentary life and the recreations of a country gentleman. He is an ardent sportsman, a good man after the hounds, a more than average shot, an expert fisherman, and no mean golf player. He has yet to make his mark as a public speaker but he has very decided opinions, and no lack of language wherewith to express them.
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London Mainly About People
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, May 27, 1899
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