RESIGNATION OF LORD TWEEDMOUTH.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13234, 30 September 1908, Page 7

RESIGNATION OF LORD TWEEDMOUTH.

Lord Tweedmouth, Lord President of the Council, has resigned,, owiiig to ill-' health, '.:■';;. .-*._"...

.The resignation of Lord Tweedmouth has been expected for some months". According to Mr Lucy's correspondence in the '-.Sydney. Morning Herald" he has been suffering from a distressing menp 1 til breakdown. Writing in June,'•'■', MjLncy said that Tweedmouth was undoubtedly not in a condition in which his resignation would bo valid, and that he would probably Jieycp-agairi bo'seen m the House, pf. The first inti-; mation that anything was wrong is said to have -been his-remark Iti'the House of Lords thgt Mr Haldane's cherishedArmy scheme , w&s a gamble. ;;.The loss of his-wife, 'financial embarrassments, and regret aj his triuisfer from the Admiralty, were mentioned as having possibly contributed towards 1 the breakdown in his healths No doubt worry, caused by his indiscretion in the matter of the Kaiser's letter, had ako something to do with it. Lord Tweed- ? 1 ? uth , I s ,- ■fifty:"--®-"- He; was -Chief tiiberal Whip and Parliamentary Secretary to. the, Treasury 1892-1894, and Lord Privy Seal and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1894-1895. ; When Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman formad his Ministry, in 1905 Lord Tweedmouth became First Lord of the -Admiralty, and held the post until ,Mr AJsquith formed his Ministry this year, when hebecame Lord President of the Council.