MR. GIBSON BOWLESTo ask the First Lord of the Treasury, can he state, or will he agree to a Return stating, the number of foreign Sovereigns on whom the Order of the Garter has been conferred since the year 1837, and the number of those Sovereigns who were not of Christian faith.
(Answered by Mr. A. J. Balfour.) There is, I believe, no objection to such a Return, though perhaps my hon. friend will be content with the statement that only three names would appear in such a Return of Sovereigns not of the Christian faith, namely, the Sultans of Turkey, Abdul Medjid and Abdul Aziz, and the late Shah of Persia.