OBITUARY.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8030, 26 November 1891, Page 5

OBITUARY.

iPER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Beoeived November 25th, 10 a,m. London, November 23. Dr. Evan Evans, master of Pembroke College, Oxford, is dead. Received November 25th, 2.15 p.m. Paris, November 24. Lord Lytton, British Ambassador, died suddenly from heart disease. Received November 26th, 1115 a,m. Sydney, November 25. The Hon. Thos. Garretfc, ei»Minieter of Lands, is dead. London, November 25 Mr Alfred Henry Haggis, DeputyChairman of the London County Council, died suddenly to-day in au omnibus. London, November 25. The Standard, in referring to the death of Lord Lytton, asserts that it was due to his unruffled temper and tact that an open rupture has not occurred between France and England before now. ' ' ' ' pAKis, November'as. i Lord Lytton was in bei'writing * letter when he was attacked with spasms of the beaiti he died immediately, v The annouas»menb of his death caused a profound sensation in Paris.

The Right Hon. Edward Robert BulwerLytton, Earl of Lytton, G.C.8., G. 0.5.1., poet and diplomatist, only son of the celebrated novelist, poet, dramatist, orator, and statesman, was born November 13th, 1831. He was educated first at Harrow, and under private tutors, and afterwards at Bonn. Wfceh nearly eighteen years of age he entered the diplomatic service of the Ciwni being appointed October 12th, 1849, Attache at Washington, where bis uncle was minister. From this time until 1874 he filled | positions in the Diplomatic service, gradually ! increasing in importance, in the Courts of Florence, Paris, Constantinople, "Copenhagen, Athens, Lisbon (where in. 1868 he successfully concluded the negotiation of a commercial treaty between Great Britain and Portugal) and Madrid. On January 18th, 1873, upon his father's death, he succeeded to the title as the second Baron Lytton. In January, 1876, [ while serving as Ambassador at Lisbon he waa suddenly informed by telegram of his nomination 1 by Mr Disraeli as Viceroy of India. On the Ist of March he took his departure for Hindostan. Midway on the journey Lord Lyttori met by pre-arrange-meat in' Egypt H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, then on his way Home from his tour through India. Immediately on his arrival at Calcutta ' hie Excellency wa3 sworn in as Governor - General and Viceroy on the 12th April, 1876; and on the Ist January, 1877, surrounded by all the princes of Hindostan, presided at the gorgeous ceremonial which marked on the plains of Delhi the Proclamation of her Majesty Queen Victoria as Empress of India; In December, 1877, the Queen conferred "upon him the honor of the Grand Cross of the civil division of the Order of the Bath. On the 12th of December, 1879, an attempt was made to assassinate Lord Lyttop-happtty without any ill effect whatever. The principal event of Lord Lytton's viceroyalty was the Afghan War. On the 28th of April, "1880, he was raised to the dignity of nn e*rldom, being created Earl of Lytton, of Lytton in the county of Derby, and Viscount Knebworth of Knebworth, in the county of Herte. Lord Lytton had previously given in hifl resignation as Viceroy of India, the Earl of Beioonefield placing it in the hands of her Majesty simultaneously with his own resignation, in the April of 1880, of the Premiership. Lord Lytton published (chiefly tinder the assumed uarne of Owen Meredith), a number of volnmea in prose and verse, amongst which are " Clytemnestra end other Poems," 1855; ♦•Luoile," 1860; "Tannhauser, or the j Battle of the Bards/ 1861; and " The ! Ring of AmaeJe," 1863. In 1874 appeared in two vole, hie "Fables in Song,' and J also in two role, the " Speeches of Ed- ' ward Lord Lytton, with some of his Political j Writings, hitherto unpublished, and a Prefatory Memoir by hie Son." In 1883, Lord Lytton published two volumes of *' The Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton," and in 1885 the poem of '* Glenaveru," in 6 books and 2 vole. The Earl of Lytton married, October 4th, 1864, Edith, second daughter of the Hon. Edward Villiers, and niece of the late Earl of Clarendon.

Mr A. H. Haggis, Alderman of the Borough of Croydon, and Depaty-Chairman of the London County Council, was a sawmill proprietor at Blackfriars, Paddington, and the Caledonian road. He was' Chairman of tho Council's General Purposes Committee, and was looked upon as a very active and useful member. He was 57 years of age. Dr. Evan Evans, D.D., was elected Master of Pembroke in 1864.