OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1351, 31 January 1912, Page 5

OBITUARY.

DUKE OF FIFE. Hi TcUernDh—Preis AjsoeSuttoii—Oonyiteß' (Roc, January 30, 5 p.m.) Cairo, January 2!). Tho Duke of Fifo died peacefully at six o'clock this ovoning. THE F.UNEML ARRANGEMENTS, (lice. January 111, 0.15 a.m.) Cairo, January 30. Tho Duko of Fife, accompanied by the Princoss Royal and their two daughters, left. Cairo at tho end of January lo nscend tho Nilo. Tho Duke's illness canted iho journey to be broken at Wady-Hall'a. His condition was serious eince Friday. King George, aboard tho Medina, was constantly informed of the Duke's stulo by wii-ck'ih bullotinn forwarded by Captain Fitzgerald, Tho Honourable John Ward has left Cairo for Assouan to assist the Princoss Iloynl with tho funeral arrangements. It is understood the body will bo brought to England aboard a battleship. Newspapers pny tribute- to tho Duko of Fife's unbending loyalty and probity towards his tenants, to his deep religious convictions, and write of him as a devoted husband and father.

The Right Hon. Alexander William George Duff was boru in November. 1849, son of the fifth Earl of Fife and Viscount Macduff in the peerage of Great Britain, succeeded his father in 1879, and served for a time as captain of the- Hon. Corps of Gentloniou-at-Arms, during which Umo ho represented the Homo Office in the House, of Lords, which was the. nearest he had been to political office. 110 did not marry until 1881), when he mado an alliance with King Edward's eldest daughter, Princess Louiss Victoria Alexandra Dagmar, now the Princess Royal, and it has proved one of Uio happiest of Koyal marriages. In thn same year he was advanced in the peerage, by her late Majesty to a Dukedom, with the second title of tho Marquess or MacdufV, and in MOO he was created Enrl of Macdulf and Duke of Fil'o, with special remainder, failing heir mule, to his daughters. Princess Alexandra Victoria Allicrtit Edwina Louise and Princess Maud Alexandra Victoria (ieorgiim Bertha The Duke became. Lordlieutenant of Elginshire as long ago as 1572, and occupied the position for thirty years, when ho resigned it. He was made Lovd-Liotitenant and Custos Rotulorum of tho County of London in WOO. He is an Hon. Colonel of Artillery Volunteers, and a member of Council of the Duchy of Lancaster, also a Knight of the Thistle since. 1881. Jin is G.C.V.0., and has the Volunteer Decoration as well as a good many foreign orders. The Dnke went, in_lSß2, to Dresden, as head of a Special Mission to invest tho King of Saxony with the Order of the Garter. lie was one of tho founders, and for nine years vicPrprrsident, of tho Chartered Company of South Africa, which position ho resigned after the Jameson Raid. He was the owner of about 219,300 acres. •