OBITUARY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 9304, 6 January 1891, Page 5

OBITUARY.

KINGLAKE, HISTORIAN. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT,'] [Special to Press Association.] [Received Jan. 5, at 10.80 a.m.] LONDON, Jan. 4. A. W. Kinglake, the historian, is dead, setat 79. [Kinglake, Alexander William, eldest son of the late William Kinglake, Esq., of Wilton House, near Taunton, born in 1811, was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1832, was called to the bar at Lincoln’s Inn in 1837, bub retired from the law in 1856. He is well known as the author of “ Eothen,” an account of his experiences in Eastern travel, published in 1844. He was returned as one of the members in the Liberal interest, in March, 1857, for Bridgewater. In 1858 he moved the first amendment against the " Conspiracy Bill,” and in the same year brought forward the question of the Cagliari, and ’in 1859 that of the Charles et Georges. In 1860 he took an active part in denouncing the annexation of Savoy and Nice to the French Empire. His “ Invasion of the Crimea,” being the first portion of a History of the Russian War of 1854-6, a work upon which he had been for some time engaged appeared in 1863, and some passages are said to have given great offence at the Court of the Tuiieries. The fifth volume appeared in 1875. The work was completed by the publication of the eighth volume in 1887. At the general election of 1868 he was again returned for Bridgewater (which Borough has since been disfranchised), but on petition was unseated.] MR H. MANDERS. [Per Press Association.] INVERCARGILL, Jan. 5, Mr Henry Handers, former representative of the Lake Wakatipu district in Parliament, died suddenly this morning;