NEW VICEROY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 185, 7 August 1935, Page 7

NEW VICEROY.

Lord Linlithgow Selected For Post. POLITICAL CAEEEE. (Received 1 p.m.) LONDON, August 6. The Marquess of Linlithgow has been appointed Viceroy and Governor-General of India in succession to the Earl of Willingdon.

Following a number of lesser administrative posts in England, a brilliant career in polities was predicted for the second Marquess of Linlithgow, but he confounded these prophecies by retiring from public life for business in January, 1929. Succeeding his father, the first marquess, to the title in 1908, he fought throughout the Great War, being mentioned in dispatches and attaining to the command of the Ist Lothians and the Border Armoured Car Company. After the war he entered politics, being appointed chairman of an agricultural committee, which reported in 1923. He was Civil Lord of the

Admiralty from 1852-24 under Sonar Law and Baldwin, deputy-chairman of the Conservative Party from 1924-26, and chairman of the Royal Commission on Indian Agriculture. Duties in connection with the latter post required his presence in India for a lengthy period, and while there he refused an offer to become chairman of the Conservative party in succession to Colonel (now Sir Stanley) .Jackson, who had been appointed Governor of Bengal. He gave as his reason for refusal his intense interest in the commission's work, which eventually resulted in production of a comprehensive survey of agricultural conditions in India. Then came his surprise retirement from politics in January, 1929, when he joined the boards of three big companies.

However, he returned to the public sphere when he accepted chairmanship of the Joint Select Parliamentary Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform, whose findings were the last investigation carried out before the Government of India Act, which was given Royal Assent only last Friday, wae framed. The selection of the Marquess of Linlithgow to succeed Lord Wiilingdon is, therefore, one which will be welcomed both in India, where he is known as a student of the country and its peculiar problems, and at home, where his political career has brought him much respect.