OBITUARY.
9 SIR ALFRED LYALL. By Telegraph-Press Associalion-Copyrisnt' London, April 10. j Sir Alfred Lyall died suddenly while tho guest of Lord Tennyson at the Isle' of Wight. j The. Br. Hon. Alfred Comyn' Lyall,«' K.C.8., G.C.1.E., Hon.D.C.L. and LL.D,, . P. 0., has hold the position of Ford's Lecturer in English History at Oxford University. Ho was born 76 yeari ago, I. and after beinf? educated at Eton joined! the Bengal Civil Service.!-In-1882 ho was' appointed Lieulenant-Governor of the Narfh-West Provinces, ',4: position he 00-j enpied for five years. From 1888 to 1802 he was a Member of the Council of the; Secretary of State for India. Later he was appointed Lord's Lecturer in English ; . History at Oxford University. Hie pub-* Mentions are:—"Verses 'Written in Ih- ,, tlia," "British Dominion in .Indim'iV. "Asiatic Studies," "Lifo of Warren .'Hhste ings," "Tennyson" (>fen of Letteva series), nnd "Life of tho Marquis of Dufterin."
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1100, 12 April 1911, Page 7
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