Historical footnote: In 1888, solicitor Weston Joseph Sparke's daughter, Lilian Sarah, married Ernest Cable.  Cable had been born in India, worked with the merchant houses, using his knowledge of India  to set up good working relationships and investments in the country.  He became Sheriff of Calcutta in 1905, was knighted in 1906 and ennobled, as Baron Cable of Ideford in the County of Devon  in the 1921 New Year Honours.  He and Lilian had two daughters and a son, who was killed fighting the First World War, so that the baronetcy became extinct on Cable's death in 1927.  A Junior Wing House at St Paul's School Darjeeling, India, where all the houses are named after colonial figures, is named after him.  He was an old boy of the school and a very generous benefactor. 

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