{"id":217,"date":"2005-03-30T22:45:47","date_gmt":"2005-03-30T21:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/?p=217"},"modified":"2005-03-30T22:49:04","modified_gmt":"2005-03-30T21:49:04","slug":"217","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/03\/30\/217\/","title":{"rendered":"Red blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, I met up with my third cousin for the first time. We compared family trees and she provided me with an interesting revelation: I&#8217;m related (by marriage only) to two old Liberal MPs, a baronet, a current cabinet minister and a famous, unreconstructed socialist (who used to be a viscount). Oh, and <a href=\"http:\/\/leighfield.blogspot.com\/2004_11_01_leighfield_archive.html#110099675903975165\">Margaret Rutherford<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A bit of research on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\">Google<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepeerage.com\">thepeerage.com<\/a> and I can chart the relationship thus:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/benntree.gif\" alt=\"Family tree showing me and Tony Benn\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, I met up with my third cousin for the first time. We compared family trees and she provided me with an interesting revelation: I&#8217;m related (by marriage only) to two old Liberal MPs, a baronet, a current cabinet minister and a famous, unreconstructed socialist (who used to be a viscount). 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