DEATH OF SIR DONALD MACLEAN
A LIBERAL LEADER MEMBER OF BRITISH CABINET 'British Official Wireless) RUGBY, loth June. Sir Donald • Mac Lean, president of the Board of Education, died unexpectedly at his London home this afternoon from heart failure. He had been attending to his departmental duties until within the last few days, and was present at a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday of last week. During the crisis of last August he took a promin • ent part with'his fellow Liberal leader Sir Herbert Samuel, in negotiations which finally led to the establishment of the first National Government. The Prime Minister and his colleagues at -Lausanne, Sir John Simon, Mr Neville Chamberlain and Mr Runciman were much distressed when the news of Sir Donald MacLcan’s death was conveyed to them, and they at once despatched a message of condolence to his widow.
The Minister of Agriculture, Sir John Gilmour, during a debate in the House of Commons, said that the earliest possible opportunity would be taken of paying a suitable tribute to Sir Donald Mac Lean, the news of whose death had caused Cabinet colleagues and members of Parliament deep sorrow.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 16 June 1932, Page 7
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