LORD DUDLEY RESIGNING.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1065, 2 March 1911, Page 5

LORD DUDLEY RESIGNING.

.NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL. By TelccraDh—rress AF«nHMi'*n—rnnrrli;ht. Sydney, March" 1. It is officially) announced that the Earl of Dudley will resign tho GovernorGeneralship of Australia in Juno next. Lord Pcntland, Secretary of Stato for Scotland, is freely mentioned as his successor. LORD DENMAN TO SUCCEED. (Rec. March 2, 0.15 a.m.) Melbourne, March 1. Lord Denman will succeed Lord Dudley. It is reported that tho position was offered to Sir T. Gibson Carmichael, Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria, beforo he accepted tho Governorship of Madras, but that he declined the offer for private reasons.

Thomas Denman, third Baron, a great-grandson of tho first peer, tho highminded Lord Chief Justice. It was the first Lord Denman who coined the phrase,

"a mockery, a delusion, and a snaro"— in allusion to the effect upon trial by jury if O'Connell's conviction were upheld by the House of Lords. The present Lori\ Denman is I'.puty-Speaker of the Houso of Lords, and holds tho post of a Lord-in-Waiting. Born in 1874, ho succeeded his rather eccentric great-uncle in 1891. Lord Denman was educated at Sandhurst, and was formerly a lieutenant in tho Ist Battalion Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment). He served in South Africa as captain commanding the 35th Squadron of Imperial Yeomanry, and was wounded. Ho is. an honorary captain in thp Army, and a' Middlesex Yeomanry major. Lord Denman. married Sir Weetman Pearson's only daughter, and his heir is his son, Thomas, born in August, 1905.