LORD GREY

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 52, 30 August 1917, Page 8

LORD GREY

DEATH OF AN IMPERIAL

STATESMAN

<oNllßt> PHEBS ASSOCIATION.—COPTRIQBt.)

(REUTEK'S IELBGIUM.)

(Received August 30, 1.30 p-m.) LONDON, 29th August. . Obituary.—Earl Grey, ex-Governor-General of Canada.

(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZKfILAND- CABMB ASSOCIATION.) (Received August 30, 11 a.m.) OTTAWA, 29th August. A Government resolution of sympathy in the death of Earl Grey has been despatched. He was recognised as a true Imperialist and an excellent GovernorGeneral.

Albert Henry George Grey, P:C, G.C.8., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.0., LL.M., was bora in 1851, and succeeded to the title in 1894, on the death of the third Earl. He was a son of General the Hon. Charles Grey. He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. From 1880 to 1885 he represented South Northumberland in the House of Commons and in 1885 and 1886 was the member for Tyneside. From 1896 to 1897 he was Administrator of Rhodesia; a position which enabled him to lay the foundation for his Imperial ideas. He was a director of the British-South Africa Company from 1898 to 1904, and from 1899 to 1904 was Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland. He was Governor-General of Canada from 1904 to 1911. There he won great popularity by his breadth of view and his desire to gain a full acquaintance with the parts and possibilities of the great Dominion. His unconventionalifcy, which he acquired in Rhodesia, won for him the esteem of the people of the plains. After his retirement from the Governor-Generalship he devoted himself principally to the fostering of Imperial ideas at the heart of the Empire, and in this work his intimate acquaintance with Overseas Dominions and people* served him in good stead. His last great plan was the erection of a stately Dominion House on a. commanding sit* in the Strand, where the offices of the Dominion representatives would be situated, and the products of the Dominions would help to emphasise the Imperial idea. He visited Australia and New Zealand on a health trip in 1913-14, and spoke in many places m favour of this proposal. Apart from Imperialism, in which he was a far-seeing reformer, Earl Grey was possessed of the ardour for social reform. He was associated with the Public House Trust movement m Great Britain, and was for many years a leader in the work of town-planning, and president of the British Town-Planning Association.