DEATH OF LORD R. CHURCHILL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10267, 26 January 1895, Page 4

DEATH OF LORD R. CHURCHILL.

Press Association'—By Telegraph—Copyright. . . London, January 24.

Lord. Randolph . Qhurchill died to-day, after bei&g in a state of coma for 36 hours. His end was peaceful, and he was sor< rounded by members of his familyi

The Right Hon. Lord Randolph Henry Sjieucer Churchill, M.P., Second Son of the sixth Duke »f Mftrlboi'dujth by his insrri&ge wish Lady Frances Anne Emily, eldest daughter of the thud StA.ro.uiß ef Londonderry, was born February 13, 1839, and educated at Mertori College, Oxford. He represented Woodstock from February 1874 until April IESOj and afcdin ftditi that time (when he was returned with, k diminished majority) until November 18S5. He afterwards stood for Birmingham, but was defeated, and was then returned for South Faddington. From 1874 to 1880 he was almost silent in the House; but from 1880 onward he mad* himself conspicuous in the House of Cpminonfi and on public platforms by the violence of his speeches against the Liberal'party, and he was the chief member of that sraall section-of- the House known as the " Fourth' party."., > On.:.tha accession . of, Lord Salisbury's Government to ofßce in ISSS, Lord Randolph Churchill'filled'thiS post of Secretary of State fot India.; and his promotion to that high place tea & i>ryof df the- inlport&nce that he had assumed in tha ranka-of the Oonserrative party. la the aonntry, indeed, he was already regarded as almost, if not quite, the Tory leader; and it was coniinbhly sala that the mantle of Lord Beacoiißfield had fallen upon the young, able, irrepressible, unscrupulous, but acute and hssfd-working chief of the Toiy Democracy. Lord Kandolph's short teWure oi the India Office was matted by the aano.tatifm of Upper Burmsh. Departmental work,-however/did not prevent his taking agreat part'in.the struggle which, at the general, electionpC Noyember 1835, again returned the Liberals to power. He fesifthed office witb. Lord Salisbury only to retura after six months, not as SecTetaty for India,- but aft Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons; but to the surprise of all, he resigned offic« in December of the Bame year. .Lord. Randolph married in 1874, Miss Jennie Jerome, of New York, who has since become a. prominent member of the Primrose League.—" Men. and "Women df the Time."

January 25,

The English attd foreign press contain lattdatSory and regretful notices Of the death of Lord B. Churchill. '

Stteeial—By Telegraph—OopyrluM;.

LONDON, January 25.

The Duke of Devonshire, referring to the death of ■ Lord Randolph Churchill, said the Unionist* had suffered, an jrreparable loss. The deceased statesman's efforts to bring the Tories into touch with democratic opinion were'unequalled, and his memory would never fade: