The Governor-General details

“We have been supplied with a company of pleasant men to live in that stately hall which gently looks down on the turbulent Ottawa through the trees of Rockcliffe’s parkway. Soldiers, statesmen, even a duke of the blood royal, have come and have won the right to friendship matching out fealtyere they went away. But none of that courtly company has excelled in geniality, courtesy and the fine arts of friendliness His Excellency Freeman Freeman-Thomas, who is the first Viscount Willingdon, Baron Ratton and presently Governor General of Canada.” (p. 29)