OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 826, 26 May 1910, Page 5

OBITUARY.

THE EARL OF STAMFORD. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrieht London, May 24. ■ The death is announced of the Earl of Stamford, a Unionist Peer, aged 60. A PILLAR OF THE CHURCH. The first Earl of Stamford was a mili- ! tary commander on the Roundhead side, and his eldest son signed the death war- . rant of King Charles. Tho ninth Earl, William Gray, just deceased, was a pillar of the Church of England. He was a London diocesan reader, vice-president of the Bible Society,, the ■ secretary for F the Propagation of the Gospel, the Additional Curates Society, and the Church Building Society, and a member of tho Councils of the Queen Victoria Clergy and Colonial Bishoprics Funds. The Earl, who succeeded his uncle in 1890, and was adjudged Karl of Stain- , ford and Baron Grey of Groby by the • House of Lords Committee of Privileges in 1592, was born, in 1850, into a Church . atmosphere, being the son of one clergyman and the maternal grandson of another. Hβ married tho daughter of a if third, Canon C. Theobald, rector of [S Lasham, Hunts.. His public" spirit was not confined to Church matters, chair- . manships of the Charity Organisation - Society, membership of the Metropolitan Asylum Board, the Ifoard \i of Guardians, and tho Council [. of the Metropolitan Hospital Sunday Fund, and vice-chairmanships of the JT Sanitary Institute and the Royal Free d Hospital being also in his record, o Formerly he was Professor of Classics e at Codrington College, Barbados, having d obtained a First in Mods, and a Second in Greats when at Exeter College, Oγ- * ford, whither he proceeded from. Brad- ; - field. His birthplace was St. Johne, Newe foundland. His heir-'is .'his'son,- Lord s Grey of Groby, born in 1896. • . =