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Viceroy Linlithgow's ancestors have been Highland earls in Linlithgowshire for two centuries. A Scottish banker and landlord farmer, Lord Linlithgow was prepared for the British Empire's No. 1 job by a term as chairman of the Royal Commission on Indian Agriculture (1926-28), another as chairman of Parliament's Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform (1933-35), which produced the famed Linlithgow Report. Capable of playing the pukka sahib at times, at small parties he is occasionally willing to give his "Imitation of a Maiden Aunt at a Children's Party."
*British India is generous with its salutes. In England the British King gets 21 guns, but when he goes to India, as Emperor, he gets 101. On all his anniversaries, British Indian guns go off 31 times. The Viceroy and members of the Royal family get 31 guns. Next in rank are 21 guns for foreign Sovereigns, the Sultan of Zanzibar, five Maharajas and the Nizam of Hyderabad. Even a political agent in India, when he arrives at a military station, gets an eleven-gun salute.