DEATH OF MR HANBURY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12650, 30 April 1903, Page 7

DEATH OF MR HANBURY

Press Association—By telegraph—Copyright.

LONDON, April 28. . (Received April .29, at 8.49"a.m.) ' The Right Hon. Bobert William Hanbury, President'of the Board of Agriculture, in which. post' lie established a reputation for common sense and keen, practical, sympathetic interest with the farmers' needs, is dead; aged '58 years.

The lU;rht Hon. R. W. Han bury, whose untimely death is announced, was the son of Mr it. Haubiiry, of Tamwortih, and was bom in 1845. He was educated at Rugby and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He entered Parliament as lnembea- for Tamworth (Staffordshire) ■in 1872, and represented that constituency for six yaas, after which, and until 1880, lie sat for North Staffordshire. He was out of thij H<jusc from 1880 to 1885, but in the latter year was returned for Preston, from which constituency lie has been font to Parliament ever since. In 1895 he tonk office as Financial Secretary to-the Treasury, which position he vacated in 1900 to assume the Presidency of the Board of Agriculture, when he was madei a Privy Councillor. He was a late captain of the Queen's Own Royal Yeomanry and honorary colonel of the sth Lancashire" Artillery Volunteers. Hβ was a member of tlie Infcer-Dcpartmcntel Committee on the system of cable telegraphs of the Empire. He possessed a country seat at Ikm Hall, Asbourne, Derbyshire, and was .T.P. and D.L. for Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Warwickshire.