OBITUARY.

Press, Volume XLV, Issue 7242, 31 December 1888, Page 6

OBITUARY.

[FZ& BBBSS ASSOCIATION.] Seeetred December 29th, 1232 pjoa.

London, December 28. lirPhnip Albert Muntz, Conservative mentfer for Tamworth, is dead. Mr VaSfce, vocalist, died suddenly last night while engaged in singing at •mane hall in the City. ReertTed December SXh, 6JQ P-m. >■-■-■ London, December 28. The death is announced of General Morant, who took an active part in the war against the Natives in the early flays of New Zealand. Beoelrea December Slat. 110 ajca. London, December 29. Lord Eversley is dead.

Mr P A. Muntz was a ConserratiTe, toTreWKKnted Warwickshire. (Northern K&ffilisUi. and Tamworth since the uSe? date, being returned onopiwsedat He was bom m 1839, Sd5S SSuently Intab«a fatter being tiie late Mr G. F. Monte, Vance, or " the great Vance "as he w termed on the bills, was a mustehall a few years ago probably bSdtue kedinK position in his profession. at several places of amuseeTenißg, various appearances as fie journeyed from p&6Tto another in a cab. Jn the eoerserfhisevidence in a civil case heard STtfce Kingston Assizes a few years ago, teStetodOiathls average earnings -were about £100 a week—no mean pay for sinjsJss » few "comic" songs of a vacuous Horatio Harbord Morant entered the service in 1844 Asmenttaned in the cable message, he took part New Zealand War, and passed through the usual grades, obtaining the nnk of Lieut.-General in 1&5. Keht Hon. Charles Shaw Lefevre, n.aL.rVtecount Eversley, was the eldest eon of the late Mr Charles Shaw Lefevre, '«P for Beading (who assumed the name eMJefevre in addition to Shaw on marryIttff a lady of that name, whose ancestors mre among the French refugee families tbat fled to England at the revocation of the Edict of Nantes) r bom February 22nd, HW, and educated at Winchester and Irinity College, Cambridge, where he indnated in due course, was _caUed to4J» Bar at Lincoln's Inn, but did not nraegce. In 18S) he was returned to the House of Commons for the now disfranchised borough of Downton, sat for Hampshire in 1831-2, and represented the Borthern division of that county from the SSneof U»e Reform Act till his elevaSonto the peerage. He was chosen in Say, IS®, Speaker of the Honseof Commons, in succession to the late Mr Aber- , cromby (afterwardsLordDunfermune), and retired after an eighteen years, tenure ot elSeeYin 1857. In this capacity his dignified and courteous demeanor, strict impartiality, and thorough acquaintance with the forms and rules of the House, secured Mm the confidence and respect of ail varties, and even under Sir R. Peel s Conservative Administration no attempt was made to substitute another in his place, tboagh he professed Liberal pohtica. His EJaJghip. was created Viscount Bversley enThte retirement from Speakerahip, April Uth,lSs7.