OBITUARY.
lord c&mheust; -of hackney. (pt Tur-Eaiurn-ritEss association-copiuight.) [ (Rμ. January 18, 11.55 p.m.) , London, January 18. The doath is announced of Lord .Amherst, of Hackney, from apoplexy. It is uiider■'stood that anxiety as to losses and the sale of his library impaired his health-and hastened the end. ■ William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, .first Lord Amherst of Hackney, came of an old county family. which migrated from Kent to Norfolk n?™,: 1 ?.. 1835 ,' h e was educated at Eton and Christ.Church.. Ho sat.as M.P. for West NorNorfolk from to 1892, and was created a peer when Lord .Salisbury, resigned office in' that year,'lord Amherst was a J.P. for Westinmster, Norfolk (High Sheriff, 1866), and Middlesex, awl a ICnight of Justice of the Order of ■ St. John,of Jerusalem- in England. c r ir4 mhel ' s >' rcc ? ntl y disposed of his library of MSS. and early printed ;books, the value of which-wns believed to be .£150,000 He married Margaret Susan (a Lady of Grace of the Order of bt John of Jerusalem), only child and heiress ot the Jato Admiral Robert Mitford and his heiress _by speoial remainder is his daughter. Lady William Cecil. '
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 409, 19 January 1909, Page 5
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190OBITUARY. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 409, 19 January 1909, Page 5
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