OBITUARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 71, 23 February 1937, Page 9

OBITUARY.

MARQUESS OF HUNTLY. LONDON, Feb. 20. The death has occurred pf the Marquess of Huntly, “Cock of the North.” The eleventh Marquess of Huntly. the premier Marquess of Scotland, held a title which dates from 1599, and was also Eari of Enzie, Lord of Badenock (15S9J, Baronet (1625), Viscount of Melgum and Baron Aboyno (1627), Viscount Aboyne (1632), Earl of Aboyne, Viscount Strathavon and Glenlivet (1660), and Baron Meldruin (1815). He sat in the House of Lords under the creation of 1815. He was born in 1847, and was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was a Lord-in-AVaiting in 1870-73, and Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlomen-at-Arms in 1881. Ho was rector of Aberdeen University in 1890, and again in 1893 and 1896. He was an honorary colonel of the Gordon Highlanders, which corps was first raised by the fifth Duke of of Gordon in 1796. He was twice married, but leaves no children, and the titie passes to his greatnephew, Douglas Charles Lindsey Gordon, aged 29.

SIR PERCY COX

LONDON, Feb. 21. Major-Gelteral Sir Percy Cox collapsed while fox-hunting, and died.

Major-General Sir Percy Zaehariah Cox was born in 1864 and educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, joining the army in 1884. He served with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Cameronians until 1889, when he joined the Indian Staff Corps, and later the Indian Political Department. He held various posts as Vioe-Consul and was political agent in Muscat from 1899 till 1904. In 1909 he became political resident in the Persian Gulf and in 1914 secretary of the Foreign Department of the Government of India. lie was chief political officer of the Indian Expeditionary Force, and in 1920-23 was High Commissioner in Mesopotamia. He also undertook tSe negotiations with Turkey over the TurcoIraq frontier, and was Indian plenipotentiary to the Geneva Conference on control of the arms traffic in 1925. He was knighted ill 1911, and had since received the G.C.I.E. and K.C.M.G. SIR AUGUSTUS BARTOLO. LONDON, Feb. 21. The death occurred of Sir Augustus Bartolo from heart failure while making a speech at the Overseas Club at Malta.

Hon. Professor Sir Augustus Barlolo, LL.D., B.Litt., F.R.llist.S., was bom in 1883, and gratruated at Malta University. Ho was called to the Malta Bar in 1907, and had been examiner for the university, Minister of Education, Emigration, and Labour, Premier’s Deputy, and Leader of the Senate under Lord Strickland, and Administrator of Malta from 1927 to 1932. He was owner and former editor of the Malta Daily Chronicle and in 1934 became a Judge. MR B. E. MINNS. SYDNEY, Feb. 22. Mr Benjamin Edwin Minns, the eminent painter and illustrator, has died, aged 73. His first drawing appeared in the Sydney Bulletin 50 years ago. He was regarded as a fine water-colour artist and liad exhibited in London, Paris, and Brussels.