OBITUARY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10683, 1 February 1913, Page 7

OBITUARY.

LORD ILKESTON'. United Presa Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Rccoivcd Kebruarv 1, 10 a.m.} LONDON, January 31. The death is announced of Lord Ilkoston, formerly well-known as Sir Walter Foster. (The lato Lord Ilkeston, who was created a peer in 1910, was educated at the Droghoda Grammar School, and Trinity College, Dublin. _ Graduating in medicine, .he was appointed Professor of Medicine in Queen's College, Birmingham, ft position which he hold for twenty-two years. Ho also held a number of other distinguished medical appointments. He was first returned" to the House of Commons in the Liberal interest for Chester, in 1885, sitting for that constituency till the following year, when the House was dissolved in consequence of the defeat of tho first Homo Rule Bill, introduced by Mr Gladstone. In the following year lib was returned for tho Ilkeston division of Derbyshire, and continued to sit for that constituency till his elevation to the House of Lords. In'the Liberal Government which held office from 1892 to 1895, lie held the post of Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board. for four years, from 1886, he was chairman of the National Liberal Federation; in 1899-1908 he was President of the Land Law Reform Association, and he was also President of the Small. Allotments and . Small Holdings Association.)