OBITUARY
DUKE OF BEDFORD
(Received August 28, noon.)
LONDON, August 27. The Duke of Bedford is dead, at the age of 82.
The eleventh Duke of Bedford was president of the Zoological Society of London from 1899 to 1936. He was also president of the University College Hospital up to 1928, and of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund to 1936, a trustee of the British' Museum until 1927, chairman of the Bedfordshire County Council from 1895 to 1928, and was the first Mayor of Holborn. He was Lord Lieutenant of the County of Middlesex from 1898 to 1926. He served with the Grenadier Guards in the Egyptian campaign of 1882, and was A.D.C. to the Viceroy of India from 1884 to. 1888. He was also A.D.C. to King Edward VII and King. George V. In the last war he was in charge of a military training camp. The Duchess of Bedford, who died in 1937, was a keen airwoman. The heir is the Duke's eldest son, the Marquess of Tavistock, who was born in December, 1888.
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received August 28, noon.)
RUGBY, August 27.
The Duke of Bedford had been partially blind for some time and had been in failing health since the Duchess was lost on a lone aeroplane flight two years ago. He is succeeded by Lord Tavistock.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 51, 28 August 1940, Page 11
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