OBITUARY.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 878, 28 December 1888, Page 26

OBITUARY.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, December 23. Obituary.—Lawrence Oliphant, diplomatist aud author. The cause of death was cancer of the lungs, from which disease he suffered intense pain during the last five months. Death, however, Was painless.

[Lawrence Oliphant was a son of the late Sir Anthony Oliphant, C. 8., for many years Chief Justice of Ceylon. He was born in 1829, and was intended for the law, but visited India whilst very young, and accompanied Jung Bahadoor to the Nepaulese Court. An account of this visit he published under the title of “A Journey to Katmandhu.” He was admitted a member of the Scottish Bar, and afterward was called at Lincoln’s Inn. He was private secretary to the late Earl of Elgin, then Gover-nor-General of Canada ; and civil secretary and Superintendent of Indian Affairs. He accompanied Lord Elgin to China on his special Embassy in J 857. In 1861 he was Charge d’Affairs in Japan, where he was attacked and severely wounded by assassins. He resigned the deplomatio service in the following year. In 1865 he was M.P. for the Stirling burghs, and resigned his seat in 1868. His principal works are—“ Piccadilly: a fragment of Contemporaneous Biography,” “Traits and Travesties, Social and Political,” “ The Lord of Khemi,” “ Altiora Peto," a novel, “ Sympneumata, or Evolutionary Forces now Active in Man,” “Masollam," a novel, besides several works on travels, etc.]