OBITUARY
LORD AMPTHILL LONDON, July 7. Obituary.— Lord Anipthill. Arthur Oliver Villiers Russell, second Baron Ampthill, was born in 1869 and succeeded his father in 1884. He was a founder of the National Party in 1918 and for a time was active in politics, serving as private secretary to Mr Joseph Chamberlain from 1895 to 1900. From 1899 to 1906 he was Governor o2 Madras, and he acted for a time as Viceroy of India. Ho served through the Great War with the Bedfordshire Regiment and was three times mentioned in dispatches. A great rower, he was in the Eton eight and Oxford University eight and won the Silver Goblets at Henlev.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 158, 9 July 1935, Page 7
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112OBITUARY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 158, 9 July 1935, Page 7
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