Cleveland Row is a short street near St. James's Palace and
its solid, dignified houses run westward towards St. James's
Park, but there is no plaque to tell that No. 13 was once the
town house of John George Lambton, First Earl of Durham,
and that it was the birthplace of the First Reform Bill of 1832
and of the Durham Report of 1840.

There is little record of any sort in London today of the man
who was known to his contemporaries as Radical Jack and to
Mr. Creevey as 'King Jog' and 'The Angry Boy'; who was
Lord Privy Seal, Ambassador to Russia, High Commissioner
for and Governor-General of Canada. There is no statue
outside the Houses of Parliament, or before Canada House;
nothing but two public houses which were named after him in
the first rush of enthusiasm over the Reform Bill. One of these,
near the Oval, has so far forgotten its origin as to bear on its
signboard the arms of the Diocese and City of Durham. The
other, in the Maida Vale district, has been more faithful and its
board shows the arms of Lambton -- Sable a fess between three
lambs passant argent. In the bar there are booklets which tell
of its origin and naming, but so far has Radical Jack passed
from general memory that any taxi-driver knows the inn better
by its common name, 'The Drum and Monkey'. His own
county, the County Palatine of Durham, has done a little
more for him. Lambton Castle, though it is no longer the
family seat, still stands on the bluffs from which the trees run
almost sheer down to the windings of the River Wear. A travel-
ler by train, going north to Newcastle and looking out of the
right-hand window of his carriage, can see, eastward of
Chester-le-Street, the graceful temple which the Freemasons
of County Durham raised in his memory. His county, which
loved him, has not forgotten him.

The Durham folk of his own time loved him less for his
public work, his lifelong championship of the weak and op-
pressed, than because he was an honest and generous employer
and most of all because he was their Squire and a familiar
figure. There had been Lambtons at Lambton for the best part

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