OBITUARY.

Otago Witness, Issue 3003, 4 October 1911, Page 31

OBITUARY.

LORD NORTHCOTE. LONDON, September 29. Lord Northcote is dead. September 30. c Lord Northcote had been ill for some months, but he moved about until he took to his bed on Tuesday. He gradually grew weaker. Sir Henry Stafford Northcote was created first baronet in 1887 and first baron in 1900. He was born on November 18, 1846, and was the second son of Sir Stafford Northcote (Earl of Iddes4eigh), a Leader of the House of Commons. H» was educated at Eton and at Morton College Oxford, whore he won the degree of M.A. He beoaane a clerk to the Foreign Office in 1868, and in 1873 he married the adopted daughter of the first Baron Mount Stephen. •In subsequent years he occupied the positions of private secretary to Lord Salisbury at the Constantinople "Em.ba.ssy, private secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, financial seoreta.ry to the War Office, Surveyor-general of Ordinance, and Charity Commissioner. From 1880 till 1893 ho represented Exeter as a Conservative member of the House of Commons.- -Then for a period of four years he held the position of Governor of Bombay, and in 1903 he was appointed Governor-general of the Commonwealth of Australia. He returned to England in 1908. Lord Northcote also bore the distinctions of C. 8., G.C.1.E., G.C.M.G., and P.C. He was the Provincial Master of the Devonshire Freemasons since 1896. Ho leaves no heir. SIR J. BRIGG. LONDON, October 2. The death of Sir J. Brigg, who represented the Keighley division of Yorkshire in the House of Commons, is announced. [Sir John Brigg, who was born in 1834, was returned for the Keighley Division of Yorkshire in 1895 as a Liberal, and has represented the constituency ever since. He was a director of the Leeds arid Liverpool Canal Company. The honour of knighthood was conferred on him in 1909.]