Notes on the News

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 4 May 1938, Page 2

Notes on the News

Duke Of Connaught

The Duke of Connaught.• the only surviving eon of Queen Victoria i* celebrating his eighty-eighth birthdav. Arthur William Patrick Albert. Duke of Connaught and Strarhearn. was born in 1850. the seventh child and third son of Quern Vic toria. He a tended the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich in 186« and entered the Royal Engineers in 1808 being transferred to the Rifle Brigade the following year. In I*7l he received h * captaincy and •Dsn an annuity of £ls 000 from Purlin mem. which was augmen ed i*» £25.000 when, in 1870. he married the Princes* Louise Marguerite of Prussia ( died on Marc h 14. 1017 c Appointed major io the Seventh Hussar* in 1875. he became lieutenantcolonel of the Rifle Brigade in l*7fl. During the expedition to Egvpt in INKJ. he led Die Guards Brigade al ’he Battle of Tel-el-Keliir. earning a three fold mention in dispatches. He had I*ooll created Duke of Connaught end Strathenrn. and Earl of Sussex in I*7l. and in 1803 became general. In lO'*' when Lord Koberis wont to South Africa. the’ Duke took his place as com-mander-in-chief of the army in Deland. and in 1002 was promo ed field marshal. From 1004 to 1907 he acied as Inspector-General of the Force* ami as commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean from 1907 io 1909. In 1910 lie represented the King on the occasion "1 the opening of the Union Parliament hi South Africa. From 1911 io 1910 he was Governor-General of Canada. IP' has represented the King ar funcihui* on numerous occasions.