OBITUARY
LORD WILLINGDON
NOTABLE CAREER
LONDON, August 12. The death is announced of Lord Willingdon. -The Marquis of Willingdon was born in 1866, being the son of Frederick Freeman Thomas and Mabel, daughter of the first Viscount Hampden. He married in 1892, the Hon. Marie Adelaide, daughter of the first Earl
of Brassey. He was aide-de-camp to Lord Brassey when Governor of Victoria in 1895. He was Liberal M.P. for Hastings (1900-06), and for the Bodmin Division of Cornwall (1906-10). He was Junior Lord of the Treasury (1905-12). Governor of Bombay (1913-19); Governor of Madras (1919-24); attended as delegate for India at the Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924; Gov-ernor-General of Canada (1926-31); Viceroy and Governor-General of India (1931-36). He was chairman of the delegation from the Boxer Indemnity Committee which visited China in 1926. He had been Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports since 1936. He was created first Baron of Ratton in 1910, and first Viscount in 1924; first Viscount Ratendone of Willingdon in 1931; first Earl of Willingdon in 1931 and first Marquis of Willingdon in 1936. He was Lord-in-Waiting to the King in 1911-13, and was a major in the Sussex Imperial Yeomanry. He was in the Eton and Cambridge elevens. His heir is Viscount Ratendone. Lord Willingdon was a director of the London and Lancashire Insurance Company, and of the Westminster Bank, Ltd. Lord Willingdon, accompanied by Lady Willingdon, visited New Zealand in January, 1940, as the representative of the British Government at the New Zealand Centennial Celebrations. Early this year he led a trade mission to South America, but owing to a breakdown in his health he had to return to England. The other members of the mission concluded the tour without him.
MR. H. W. KELLY
(P.A.) NELSON, This Day. The death has occurred of Mr. Henry Warren Kelly, formerly Mayor of Richmond Borough for nine years and a member of Nelson Harbour Board for seventeen years. Since transferring from Wellington to the Nelson District twenty years ago he took a prominent part in all public affairs.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 38, 13 August 1941, Page 8
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346OBITUARY Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 38, 13 August 1941, Page 8
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