"FATHER OF THE LORDS."

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 476, 7 April 1909, Page 8

"FATHER OF THE LORDS."

DEAD AT 99 YEARS. COULD RECALL THE GEORGIAN ERA. (BI TBLIG 111 I'll—rUESS ASSOCIATInx-niI'TIUOHT.) London, April 5. Tho death is announced of Lord Gwydyr, "Father of tho House of Lords," who was born on April 27, 1810. NEARLY A CENTENARIAN. The veteran Lord Gwydyr had lively recollections of the Coronation of Georg IV., and Suffolk in particular was looking forward to the celebration of his centenary on April 27, 1910. Peter Robert Burrell succeeded his cousin, the twenty-second Lord Willoughby de Eresby, as fourth Lord Gwydyr in 1870. The oldest inhabitant can scarcely remember the time when he was not prominently associated with the life of Ipswich and Suffolk. He was High Sheriff of the county in 185S, had been High Steward of Ipswich and a Suffolk J.P.

f° r many years, was long chairman of the fannolk Quarter Sessions, and was a county alderman of East Suffolk. His popularity in those parts was great. Lord Gwydyr took his Master's degree at Cambridge (St. John's College) in the year of William IV's accession, and was secretary to the Hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain from the year of Queen Victoria's accession to that of the- FrancoGerman war and tho Cowper-Temple Clause. Lord Gwydyr was twice married and twice a widower. His heir is his son by his first marriage to Sophia, daughter of Frederick Campbell, of arbreck, Argyllshire, Mr. Willoughby llerrick Campbell Burrell.