FIFTY SERVICE

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2398, 7 April 1931, Page 5

FIFTY SERVICE

IX ROYAL SERVICE LORD STAMFORDHAM'S J FBI LEE” This year Viscount Stamfordham, the King’s principal private secretary and confidential adviser, who has just died, completed 50 years of service in the royal household. As Captain Arthur Bigge, of h’ic Royal Artillery, lie was the officer deputed to accompany the late exEmpress Eugenie cf France to the st i ne of her son’s death in Zululatui. This brought him under the notice oi Queen Victoria, wlxn rewarded him for- his services by .appointing him, in 1881, fo be one. of her grooms-iuewait-

He hal not held this position long before the. Queen chose him to he her private secretary in sucecession to Sir Henry Ponsonby, and he held this position until her death! in 1901. He then passed into the service of tho present ping.