OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 423, 4 February 1909, Page 5

OBITUARY.

LORD BURTON. '(HI TBLEORiPn—rttESH*SSO(iIATION— COPYRIGHT.) London, February 2. The death is announced of Lord Burton, aetat 71. His v Lordship succumbed after an operation for an internal complaint. LORD BURTON'S CAREER.

'•■■lrreverent.'Radicals;have 'ierrbed /Lord-Bur> ton thfl;head:of:'the'Beeragai' as,-being tiie'hend "of ;the(Basses/he *was certainly■ thn.head.of the brewer; Pe«rs.r/B!e.was a: Gladstonian'Liberal; but:,as-avresultVof : ;the '.Home'Eule split' in 1886'.'hb^ ! thpngh'..loth' to break (with, the Glad-; stonian.. tradition/';.went ;pn(..the , side of'(the UniohV: and :'satMter.wards''as : a" Liberal ,Unibnist' Peer.;;, Michael.; Arthur Bass. i was born in : 1837,/■iras^educated.'at •Harrow , , dnd'.Trinity■ Gol>f6rey«H'e;>tfaev.jtmrl7;; as':.■ Liberal ,, ': in em^er' ,, ;. for' East: Staffordshire and the Burton.Division M~ . liad ■ become" a" : baronet itf .f&S2.-: •■: Hβ , ;. married :Harriet::Georgina,':daughter oftheilate'.Mr.-.E, pfeated α-peerioyer'again-in , 1897;- with'special' remainder- 'thiir! time'to;his daughter, .Nellie Lisa, who; married Solbnel' Baillie, of Dbchfour;! fprjn^rly'.M.P.'for'lnverness-shire.'.The heir.t6: ; the:,barpnetoy is .his ;nepbew,VMr. ■ Williftm'ArthurfHamarßass,' who owns: the ;"Era" :aM;"Soeptre,".:and,is the'son ofithe late' Mr. ■Hamar-Bass,;M.P.' v'.;. ,;J-i"-i-. : .. .■■'.:, ;, . -. ■:■'.■'.!.'■ ;■:■■

BARON ROBERTSON, LORD'.OF APPEAL;:ii\V^;: ; ;(Rec; ; February. 4'i-0i40^a:m.);::;. :' W ' : i S;0$& ;.";Baro4 : Robertson,' Lord :i : of Appeal since ;iß9B,"is;dead,J:aetat, 63.. :( ; "'v ■;■': ;.;;.■.', ; : ; : V ■'•;James .Patrick.' Bannormaa . Robertson, 'P.C.v '&'Lord- of r'Appeal.in: Ordiuary, ! sat-inthe House of'Lbrds-as a.life peer.v-He was the son- of an vthe ;rEev;(; E. w J; Ebbertspn,.; of ;3?ort6'vipt, :,Perthshire,', was; bornin '■': 1845,: and (was' "educated;; at theiEoyaK High School,;Edinburgh;;;of wliich.he was Dux,;and 'Edinburgh' University.,-. :: : Ha v'was 'called 1 ■.to : ;the Scottish Bar; ih'; ;: lß67, and ;took ; .silk '. 1885: Lord • Bbbertson's .career./tat' the Bar was. a .very, brilliant^one;'in his time he was engaged in| ! almost (every : :.cause. celebre ; at. Edinburgh. (Hayihg!:':unsuccessfiilly contested, Lihlithgowshire in 1880, he entored the House of ■Commons ■for'-Buteshire in 1885...'He was 'Solicitor-General. for. Scotland/.1885-6 and' 1886-8, andi Lord Advocate : . 1888-91,'; ■■ As -such ■Kβ oarried -'the Scottish 'and . Universities' Acts. .In •the House of, Commons he(; speedily: made his mark, ■ and never lost' ground.'.' In 1891, on; the death 'Of: Lord GUncarse, he became Lord Ju& tice-Goneral ■ 'and l .'President • of, the Court- : : of Session,:'and.;since .1899. he; had been a'-Lord of Appeal in .Ordinary. Lord Eobertson, : was the. ;bnly Scotsman (.who took jiart in the final' decisioh.aS'to the Scottish Kirks crisis; he found for :the'.'"Wee iFrees.";- Hβ t wa_s Chairman of ; the lEoyal'Commission -on 'Irish '.'University■ :Education in ;i9Ol-2..■' Hβ' married .Philadelphia.' -.Ma'ry^Lnoy,''daughter:of W..N: Fraser,;of Tor;naveen, Aberdeekshire. (His 1 son, Captain'Eobert ■Bannprmah (Eraser- Eobertsoh,' ik : , in '.the -21st Lancers, ■ and I .■Wμ : ; twice' woundedr ; ;.in (.South Africa;/;.;.■';''■,■'■:'.'■.■'■■ ■■..,!■.. *(' : ; i:; "'■■.~'. : -' : vJi^'i:.'-l--. : -s