OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9817, 28 August 1897, Page 8

OBITUARY.

Preee Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. London, August 26. The death is announced of the Et. Hon. Sir Georgo Osborne Morgan, M.P. for Denbigh East. The Rt. Hon. Sir G. 0. Morgan, P.C., was born at Conway in 1826. At Balliol College, among other honours, he obtained the Craven University Scholarship, the Eldon Law Scholarship, the Newdigate and Chancellor's pnzea, the Stowell Civil Law Fellowship, and a first class in Classics. He was called to the Bar in 1853, and made a Queen's Counsel in 1869. He represented the County of Denbigh from 1868 to 1885, when he was returned for East Denbighshire by a majority of 393 over Sir Welkin Wynn, whose family had represented the county uninterruptedly for IT7 years; and in 1886 he was re-elected for the same constituency by a majority of 26 over the same opponent. He was appointed Judge Advocate General and Privy Counciller in 1880, and Undersecretary of State for the Colonies in 1886. He carried through Parliament (besides other measures) the Burials Act, 1880, the Married Woman's Property Act, 1882, and the Act for abolishing corporal punishment in the army. He also acted a3 Chairman of several Committees of the House of Commons. Hβ was the author of various political pamphlets, as well as of a standard work on Chancery Practice, which has passed through six editions.]