NATION MOURNS
LAST TRIBUTE TO STATESMAN.
MR MacDONALD’S FUNERAL.
ALL CLASSES REPRESENTED
Pros? Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.)
LONDON, November 26. Royalty, statesmen, humble friends, and one-time political enemies joined at Westminster Abbey to mourn Mr James Ramsay MacDonald. The Duke of Gloucester represented the King and most of the members of Cabinet were present.
The Archbishop of Canterbury (the Most Rev. Dr. Cosmo G. Lang) took part in the sendee. The coffin, covered by the Union Jack and masses of flowers, was borne from Mr MacDonald’s former home in Hampstead. Mr Chamberlain, Sir John Simon, Earl de la Warr, Earl Baldwin, Major Attlee. Sir Walter Citrine and Sir Archibald Sinclair, Mr Graham Kerr and Mr G. A. Morrison were pallbearers. Mr W. J. Jordan represented New Zealand. After the service the coffin was carried to Golders’ Green crematorium, where a private service was held. The ashes were later taken to Lossiemouth.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 41, 27 November 1937, Page 7
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