LORD READING DEAD

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 1, 2 January 1936, Page 7

LORD READING DEAD

A NOTABLE CAREER DID GREAT WORK FOR INDIA.

[ British. Official Wireless. ] RUGBY, Dec. 30. The Marques of Reading, who contracted a chill last week, died of heart failure at his London house this afternoon, aged 75. His condition had given cause for anxiety since Saturday. Lord Reading had a brilliant career in. law and politics. .He was appointed Attorney-General in .1910. He was the first holder of that office to sir, in Cabinet, which he entered in .1912, He became Lord Chief Justice in 1913, and. while occupying this high legal offi -e through the war years and up to 1921. h<> visited the United States three times on special missions, first as head of the Anglo-French Loan Mission, again in .1916 as a special envoy, and in 1918 as High Commissioner tnd special Ambassador. In 1921 Lord Reading was appointed Viceroy and Governor-General of India and returned from India in April. 1926. He served on the Round Table Conference in 1930. and took part in all the work of subsequent. years connected with Hie drafting of the now Indian Constitution, on which he left, a considerable mark. In the crisis of 1931 Lord Reading was one of the Liberals who joined the first National Government, serving arP'oreigri Secretary for several months. He accepted his last office in 1934. when he became Lord Warden of Cinque Ports.