OBITUARY.
LORD GLENESK. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, November 25, . (Received Nov. 25, at 10.45 p.m.) Lord Glenesl;, proprietor of the Morning Post, is dead, aged 77. Baron Glenesk, proprietor of the Morning Post, the London newspaper which makes a specially of chronicling the doings of the Court and nobility, was formerly known as Sir Algernon Borthwick. He was made a K.l). in 1880 and a baronetin 1887, receiving the titJo of Baron in 1695, and taking the name from a locality in Midlothian. He was born in 1830, and his father was M.P. for Evesham. The Baron was M.P. for South Kensington from 1885 to 1895, was vice- grand master of tho Primrose League, president of the Press Fund, and belonged to the Tory party in polities. Ho was married in 1870; but leaves no heir.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14381, 26 November 1908, Page 7
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