§ Mr. BOOTHasked the Attorney-General the respective ages and periods of service of the two Masters in Lunacy, and of the official solicitor associated with the Masters in the Lunacy Department of the Royal Courts of Justice?
§ Sir RUFUS ISAACSMaster Fischer was appointed on the 27th October, 1896, and is now eighty-two years of age. Master Theobald was appointed on 17th April, 1907, and is now sixty-five years of age. The official solicitor was appointed on the 1st of May, 1895, and is now sixty-nine years of age. He is not an officer of1528W the Lunacy Department or in any other way associated with the Masters.