OBITUARY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 72, 25 March 1912, Page 7

OBITUARY.

=_ * MARQUIS OF HERTFORD. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received March 25, 10 a.m.) LONDON, 23th March. The Marqui* of Hertford is dead. [The Marquis of Hertford, Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire and A.D.O. to the King, was born in Dublin on 22nd October, 1843, educated at Sandhurst, and joined the Army and attained the rank of captain. He was Conservative M.P. for County Antrim from 1869 to 1874 and for South Warwickshire from 1874 to 1880. ' In 1879-1880 he was Comptroller of the Household. His heir is his son, the Earl of Yarmouth, liorn in 1871.] SIR JAMES COATS. LONDON, 24th March. The death is announced of Sir James Coats, the thread manufacturer. [Sir Jainefl Coats, a director of J. and P. Coats, Ltd., was born on 12th April, 1834. He was made a baronet in 1905. His heir is hie son, Stuart Aucliencloßß Coate, born in 1868.] MR. JUSTICE' HOMBURG. (Received March 25, 11 a.m.) ADELAIDE, This Day. Mr. Justice Homburg, ot the Supreme Court, is dead. [The, Hon. Robert H. Homburg was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia in February, 1905. Born in Germany in 1848, he was called to the South Australian Bar in 1874. For about twenty-one years 'he was a member of the House ot Assembly, and was Attorney-General in the Playford, Downer, and Jenkins Ministeries.]