SIR HEDWORTH MEUX DEAD

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19731, 23 September 1929, Page 11

SIR HEDWORTH MEUX DEAD

RELIEF OF LADYBMITH RECALLED. (tatnu omcill wxmlms.) RUGBY, September 20, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Hedworth Meux, who## death is annotmoed today, was associated with one of the important episodes of the South African War. at vu then Captain Lambton, as he only assumed the name of Meux in lather years in accordance With the Will of Lady Meux. General Sir Geore White had been forced to concentrate his for cos on Ladysmitii and act on the defensive. He nad only light artillery artd hie chances of withstanding the attacks of the Boers were small. Naval assistance having been asked for, H.M.S. Powerful with Captain Lambton tn command was sent to Durban. On her arrival on October 29th, 1899. H.M.S. viously mounted for use in the field, were landed immediately and sent with a naval brigade under Captain Lambton to Ladysmith. The arrival of these reinforcements undoubtedly saved Ladvemith. '

[Sir Hedworth Ueux, G.C.8., was the third son of the second Earl of Durham, and a well-knoWn and popular naval officer, attaining the highest rank possible in the Navy—that of Admiral of the Fleet. He had seen much active Service, both in Egypt and South Africa- In the latter field Of operations he commanded the Naval Brigade at Ladysmith. He had also sat in the House of Commons as M.P. for Portsmouth. la 1910 he married Viscountess Chelsea, whose first husband, the eldest son of Bfcrl Cadogan, had died two years earlier. Admiral Lambton. as he than was, assumed the same or Meux soon after, on succeeding to some rich London property, and to some extept lost his identity thereby. His death marks the third loss in the Lambton family in twelve months, his two older brothers (twins), the third and fourth Satis Of Durham, having died within the last year,]