DEATH OF LORD R. CHURCHILL.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9012, 26 January 1895, Page 7

DEATH OF LORD R. CHURCHILL.

Press Association— By 1 elegrapa—Copyright London, January 24.

Lord R. Churchill died to-day, after being in a state of coma for thirty-six hours. His end was peaceful, and he was surrounded by the members of his family. January 25. The Marquis of Devonshire, 'referring to the death of Lord Randolph Churchii!, said the Unionists had suffered an irreparable loss. The deceased statesman's efforts to bring the Tories into touch with Democratic opinion were unequalled, and his memory would never fade. The English and the Foreign Press contain laudatory and regretful notices of the death of Lord Churchill.

The Right Hon. Lord Rmdolph Henry Spencer Churchill, second son of the sixth Duke of Marlborough by his marriage with Lady Frances Anne Emily, eldest daughter of the third Marquis of Londonderry, was born February 13th, 1849, and educated at Merton College, Oxford, He represented Woodstock from February, 1874, until April, 1880, and again from that time (when he was returned with a diminished majority) until November, 1885. He afterwards stood for Birmingham, bat was defeated, and was then returned for South Paddiogton. From 1874 to 1880 he was almost silent in the House ; but from 1880 onward he made himself conspicuous in the House of Commons and on public platforma by the violence of his speeches against the Liberal Party, and he wae the cnief member of that small section of the Houee known as the "Fourth Party." On the accession of Lord Salisbury's Government to office in 1885, Lord Randolph Churchill filled the post of Secretary of State for India; and his promotion to that high place was a proof of the importance that he had assumed in the ranks of the Conservative party. In the country, indeed, he was already regarded aa almost, if not quite, the Tory leader; and it was commonly said that the mantle of Lord Beaconafield had fallen upon the ycung, able, irrepressible, unscrupulous, but acute and bard-working chief of the Tory Democracy. Lord Randolph's short tenure of the India Office was marked by the annexation of Upper Burmah. Departmental work, however, did not prevent his taking a great, part in the struggle which, at the general election of November, 1885, again returned tha Liberate to power. He resigned office with Lord ■Salisbury only to return after six months, not as Secretary of India, but as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Leader of the House of Commons; but to the surprise of all, he resigned office in December of the same year. Lord Randolph married, in 1874, Miss Jennie Jerome, of New York, who has since become, a prominent member of the Primrose Laague.