OBITUARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 16 August 1910, Page 5

OBITUARY.

|HItESS ASSOCIATION—Coi'XKIQHT.J LUKD AMHERST. LONDON, -Monday. Karl AmLvrst is dead. (Lord Amher-i was a prominent Freemason. lie sewed as a captain in the Crimean war, and at one time occupied a seat in the House of Commons.) SIR FLEETWOOD EDWAKJK. LONDON. Monday. The death is announced of Lieut.'Lionel Sir Fleetwood isham Edward , Sorgeant-at-Arms of the House 01 Juurds since 1901. A LONG ILLNESS. LONDON', Monday. Miss Nightingale had a long illness. She rallied on Friday; but her condition was serious on Saturday, and she gradually sank. The quietest pos-.ibie iu»eral was her strongly expressed wish EARLSPENCER. '.Clio following are particulars of ■Carl Spencer, whose death was recorded yesterday.— Thy Eight Hon. John I'oyntz Sponger. K.G., D.C.L.. LL.D., only sou or the fourth Earl Spencer, was born on October 27th. 1535, and received his educatiou at Harrow and at Trillin College, Cambridge, where the graduated in IS.jT. He represented the Southern Division of the County of Northampton in the House of Commons from April to D eem'ber, 1857, when lie .succeeded to the title on bis father's death. He wa. Groom of the Stole to the Prince Consort, 185901; and occupied a similar position in the .Prince of Wales' (the late King Cdward) household from 1562 to ISG7. In December, 1808, Lord Speneej was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and lie made his public entry into Dublin on .January 10th, 1809. He retained that ollice till the resignation of the Gladstone Ministry, in February, .1874. On the return of the Liberals to otlice in May, ISBO, Ire was. appointed Lord President of the Council, lie was nominated Lord-Lieut of Ireland on the re ignatton of Ear' Cowper, on May Ith, 1 SB'2, retaining his seat in the Cabinet. Lord Spencerarrived at Dublin on .May Uth. on thp Evening of which day Lord Frederick Cavendish, the newdy-appoin ted Chief Secretary, and Mr Thomas A. Burke, rhe Under-Secretary, were stabbed to death' by assassins in Phoenix Park. close to the Castle. After this it fell Earl Spencer to administer the provisions of thy Crimes Act. Jn Marcn. 1553, he resigned the ollice of Lord President of the Council, but still remained a member of the Ca.binet, until the close of Mr Gladstone's Administration in June, 1885. O tiie return of Mr Gladstone to On the return of Air Gladstone to ollice in February oi.' the following vear Lord Spencer became for the second time Lord President of the Council. By that lime he had adopted Home Euie opinions, and his support wa- of great value to the Government. In August, 1.892. he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, and retained that office till June, 1890. From 1901 to 1907 (when he resigned) Lord Spencer was a member of the Council of the Duchy of Cornwall, and Keeper of its Privy Purse, and from IS92* to 1907 he was Clvancellor of the Victoria Fniversify, Manchester: he was al?o M.-.stnr of the Pytchley. Tr. I.SSS Ear| Spencer married a daughter of the !ate Frederick Charles-AVilli.-iin Seymour, grandson of the first Marquu of Hertford, and she predeceased him liv several years. TJ e is succeeded by his ha 1 f-broflier, th'P "Right Hon. Charles Robert. Viscount AI thorp, who i s now- i„ his'fifly-third "ear, anil has d<>ne good work in Par. .-lament on the Libera! side.