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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 37, 19 June 1891, Page 13

Few men, observes the Weekly Register, could look back on their past political lives with so few regrets as Earl Granville ; and few men will be so greatly regretted as he by his brother politicians.— His foes paid him an unconscious compliment by grudging him, at tbey did, to the Gladstonians. As tbe brother of Lady Georgian* Fullerton, he often came in contact with Catholics — a contact which possibly had something to do with his refusal to rank himself among tbe opponents of Home Rule. Tboae who attended the great antislavery meeting in London, when Cardinal Lavigerie and tbe Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster sat on the left and right of Earl Granville ac chairman, will remember that in his urbanity there was something fatherly — almost ecclesiastical. Earl Granville, like several other statesmen of both parties, waß a subscriber to Merry England ; and he took great interest in watching, month by month, the progress of the forward school of literary and artistic criticism among Catholics.