OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 658, 8 November 1909, Page 7

OBITUARY

i i VISCOUNT SELBY, LIBEHAL PEER. , (By Tclceraph-Pross Aj«oo!»tldii-Copyrleht.) (Rec. November 8, 1.10 a.m.) , :■ • London, November 7. ■ The death is announced' of Viscount Selbv. aged 7i, for ton years .Speaker of the House oi .Commons, and a Liberal momber of the' Honso of Lords sinco 1905. AN EMINENT SPEAKER, Wailjm-.Conrt Gtllly, K,C;; j-peater ot tho House of. Commons, was,' after ten years m tho Chair, elovatcd to the peerage as. Viscount Selby, in 1805. Born in 183S ho was educated at .Trinity College, • Cambridge, and was President 9 f tho Union. Ho was called to the i)ar in iB6O, took silk in ,1887, and became Recorder of Wigan, and member of Pariiament-in the Liberal interest for Carlisle in. 188 G. lor many Tears he was a, leader on the . Northern ;Circnit, but in tho House of .Commons lie was little.known. On Mr. Speaker - Peels resignation, it was therefore somewhat of a surprise that Mr. Ldbouohere, m Truth, should nominato Mr. Gully for this post, a.nomination ultimately aoquiesced in by Sir William Hareourt. Ho soon secured the complete confidence of the House of Commons, , and his dignified presence maintained throughout liis ten years of office in undimmed lustre tho authority of the Chair, which Lord Pool had, raised to tho • lushest pinnacle of respect. Ha was the chairman\ or tho lioyal Commission on Vivisection. Ho married tho eldest daughter of' Thomas Selby, of Wimbish, Essex, and took her nnne_for. llis title. His hoir is his oldest son, the Hon. J. W. H. Giilly, born in 1867. His socond. son, Mr. Edward Gully, is tho t)rivate secretary, to Mr. Speaker Lowtber