DEATH OF THREE PEERS
London. Feb. 16. The deaths have been announced of three distinguished peers—the Earl of Fitzwllliam, soldier, landowner and former Unionist member of the House of Commons for Wakefield; Lord Gainford, Liberal politician and industrialist; and Lord Oliver, who was Secretary for India in 1924.
The Earl of Fitzwilliam, the seventh bearer of the title, was born in 1872, and served in the South African War and in the Great War. Joseph Peace, later Lord Gainford, first Baron of Head lam, was deputychairman of the Durham Coal Owners’ Association director of several colliery companies, and director oi the County of London Electric Supply Company Limited, and other industrial concerns.
Lord Olivier, first Baron Olivier of Ramsden, entered the Colonial Office in 1882. He held administrative posts in several of the colonies, including the Governorship of Jamaica from 19071913.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 42, 20 February 1943, Page 5
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