OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 300, 13 September 1921, Page 4

OBITUARY

MARQUIS OF MILFORD HAVEN EXPIRES SUDDENLY FROM HEART FAILURE > By Te’.etrraph—Preoi AB«oolation—Copyright London, September 11. Obituary.—The Marquis of Milford Haven. The Marquis had. been spending a holiday in Scotland, and returned to London on Saturday in good health. He stayed at the Naval and Military Club in Piccadilly, and attended a theatre in the evening. He complained on Sunday morning that he was not well, and died in the afternoon at the club from heart failure following a severe attack of influenza. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (Rec. September 12, 8 p.m.) London, September 12. No one was present when the Marquis of Milford Haven suddenly expired. The housekeeper, after attending him, returned and. found him dead. His wife and younger daughter were staying at a London hotel preparatory to journeying to Paris, and were summoned, but arrived too late. Both his sons .were absent, serving on board warships.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.

[The Marquis of Milford Haven was born in Gratz, Austria, on May 24, 1854. He was the eldest son of Prince Alexander of Hesse. He was naturalised a ■British subject, as Prince Louis of Battenberg, and entered the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1874. In 18S4 he married Jiis cousin. Princess Victoria, daughter of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, and of Process Alice; Queen Victoria’s daughter. In 1904 he became-Rear-Admiral, 1911-12 Second Sea Lord of the .Admiralty, and in 1912-14 First Sea Lord. At the outbreak of war he relinquished his position. In 1917, at the request of the King, he relinquished his German titles, and assumed by Royal License the surname of Mountbatten, and was qrcated a Peer as Marquis of Milford Haven. In August last he was appointed Admiral of the Fleet on the retired list, in recognition of his services before and after the outbreak of war.] MR. JAMES KELLOW. Mr. James Kellow, one of Wellington's most respected citizens, died at his residence, No. 15 Kent Terrace, at about 5 o’clock last evening, after- a short illness, which supervened on. one of longer standing. The late Mr. Kellow was born in Guernsey, in the Channel Islands, and was educated at St. Servian’s College, in St. Malo, France. As a young mam he made a trip to Ontario, Canada, but did not settle there, as he returned to Guernsey, and when 21 years of ago married, and shortly after left England in the barque Edwin Fox, arriving in Wellington in the. year 1874. Mr. Kellow was favourably impressed with the prospects of the place at that ► time, and determined to take up his residence here. He followed the vocation of a public accountant, and for some years past had conducted a business in partnership with his son, Mr. Ernest Kellow. The late Mr. Kellow was of a retiring disposition, noted) for his rectitude and unwavering integrity of character, and for his genial and kindly disposition. For many years he was a prominent office-bearer in the Taranaki Street Wesleyan Church. In Masonry he was a very old member of Pacific Lodge, and for ’twenty years he had been a member of the Victoria Bowling Club. He leaves a widow andl three sons. Tho sons are: Messrs. Ernest Kellow. public accountant; Mr. Albert Kellow, manager forMessrs. Levin and Co. at Feilding; and Mr. Wilfred Kellow, secretary of the Gear Meat Company.