DEATH OF LORD DUFFERIN.

Evening Star, Issue 11681, 13 February 1902, Page 6

DEATH OF LORD DUFFERIN.

A FAMOUS DIPLOMATIST

Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright.

LONDON, February 12. (Received February L 3, art 9.40 a.m.) The Marquess of Dufferin is dead, aged seventy-six years.

The Marquis of Dnfferra and Ava was bora in FtoeS, Italy, on June 24. 1826 His father was fourth Baron DufWm and Uandeboye, and his mother, Helen Selina, a grand-daughter of Richard Brinsley Sheadan was well known as a writer of prrra and verse. He was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, but left the university without taking a degree. He succeeded to his father's title in 1841. an! vas for .some vears Lord-in-Waiting to the Queen. Jn 1855 he was attached to the mission undertaken by Lord John Rum-cU to Vienna, and in 1859 made a yacht voyage to Iceland, a narrative of which he published in Boston in 1859. He was Bert by I*>rd Palmerston in 1860 as a British Commissioner to Syria to make inquiries irto the of the Christians there, and on his return was made K-C.B. Ho was- Under-Secretary of State for India from 1P64 to early in 1866, and from the latter date was for a few months Under-Secretary for War. When Mr Gladstone came into power in December, 1868, he was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, m 1871 he was created Viscount Clandeboye and Earl of l>ufferin, and in 1872 he became Governor-General of Canada The duties devolving upon this officer are not weighty, being almost entirely limited to tlie openi-Kj and dissolution of Parliament, but there nr-i oU.er duties, more social tl*an political m their character, which, are regarded rs scarcely less incumbent on the Viceroy. While acting in this dual capacity the Earl of Dtriierin secured a degree of popularity never gamed by any of his predecessors, la education and all other matters of public concern he displayed the greatest, interest, and he was soon known as the ablest orate* in Canada. In the summer of 1876 Earl Dmierin, accompanied by Lady Dufferin, made a, four through British Columbia, where a great degree of discontent prsvailed, in consequence of a belief that th»; terms upon which that remote province had 'onied the Dominion had not been complied with. Earl Dufferin's visit and his adv> cacy of the union and the prospective benefits likely to aecrue to British Cohrmbia from it allayed the prevalent discontent, and did much to increase the friendship between the people of the Pacific Coast and their eastern compatriots. .He held the office of Governor-General of Canada till October, 1878, when he was succeeded by the Marquis of Lome, On the eve of his leaving Canada he was presented with au address signed by seventy-four mayor*, wardens, reeves, and councillors, represen*ir.g the municip;ilities in Ontario. In May, 1878, he was elected president of the Boy*l Geographical Society, and in June following Le attended the Harvard commencement, when the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him. To Lord DufEerin may be attributed the credit of first suggesting the purchase of the ground adjacent to Niagara i alls as an international Park. In Febrnarv, 1873, he was appointed Ambassador at SL Petersburg, was transferred to Constantinople in May, 1881, and in October, 1882, p'oceeded to Cairo, Egypt, to settle questions between England and that country arising out'of the rebellion of Arabi Pasha. He left Egypt- in April, 1885, and was appointed Viceroy of India in 1884. In 1338 he was appointed British Ambassador at Rome, where he stayed for three years, and wa« transferred (1891) to Paris, where ta remained until 1896. His principal wortes are : ' Narrative of a Journey from Oxford to .Sk£bbex«en dining the Year of the Irwh Famine' iLondoru 1848), 'Letters from High Latitudes' (London, 1860), ' Contributions to an Inquiry into the State of Ireland' (1886), Irish Emigration and the Tenure erf the Land in Ireland' (1867), and Mr Mill's Plan for Pacification of Ireland Esammed' (1868). A collection of his speeches and addresses was published 'n 1882, edited by Henry Milton. A ' History of the Administration of the Earl of Dnfferin in Canada' was published by William leggo (Montreal, 1878). Honors: Baron, 1850; Knight of St. Patrick, 1863; P.C , 1868; Earl, 1871; G.C.8., 1883; Marquis, 1£88; Lord Rector of St. Andrew's University, 1890 93; of Edinburgh University, 1901.