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Hats Of Great Men

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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
November
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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At a recent meeting of the Kildare Archaeological Society a hat worn by Daniel O'Connell was exhibited. There was no mistake about the article, for OConnell, mindful of the company he occasionally frequented, had written his name inside. That seems to have been a superogatory precaution, for the hat was so large it would have been useful to but few of O'Connell's contemporaries. The chairman putting it on partially disappeared from view of the alarmed audience, the rim of the hat coming down to his chin. It is stated that "the width of the hat was eight and a half inches,; its longer diameter ten inches." I have garnered some particulars of the sizes of the heads of eminent men, but have come upon nothing so big as this, writes H. W. Luey, in the Strand Magazine. Mr. Gladstone requires a hat of the size of 7%, exactly Lord Macaulay's measurement. Lord Beaconsfield wore a hat of 7 inches, an undesigned but characteristically courtly imitation of the Prince of Wales, whose hat is of the same size. Cüarles Diokens, the late Lord Selborne and Mr. John Bright wore hats 7% s,ize. The late Earl Russell wanted an eighth more. Charles Dickens' hat would have been too small for Thackeray by half an inch. Louis Phillippe and, strange conjunction, M. Julien, wore hats of 7%. An illustrious man of recent times who took the smallest hat on my list was Dean Stanley, for whom 6% sufflced. For his friend Dr. Thompson, Archbishop of York, a hat of full eight inches diameter was necessary.

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