OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1555, 26 September 1912, Page 5

OBITUARY.

■ SIR RICHARD CARTWRIGHT. Ty Telegraph—Press Aesociation—Copyright Kingston (Ontario), September 24. The Right Hon. Sir Richard Cartwright, formerly Minister for Trade and Commerce for Canada, is dead. Tho lato Sir Richard Cartwright was for many years one of the most prominent figures in Canadian polities. He was the son of an Irish army chaplain, and was educated in Dublin, In 1863, at tho age of 28, he was clected to the Parliament of Old Canada; and sat for many years in the House of Cbmomns after the Confederation. From 1873 to 1878 ho was Finance Minister, and Acting-Premier nnd Leader in tho House of Commons in 1897. He went to Washington in 18f>7 to promote better relations between Canada nnd the United States; he proposed a Joint Commission, and represented Canada, on the Anglo-Amorican Joint High Commission when it sat at Quebec in tho summer of 1898, aad at Washington in the winter of 1898-89. During tho late Premier's absence nt tho Colonial Conference in 1907, Sir Richard was ActingPremier.

LORD LLANGATTOCK. (Rec. September 25, 11.15 p.m.) London, September 25. The death is announced of Lord Llongattock, aged 75. John. Allan Rolls, firofc .Lord Liang, attock, was born in 1837, and was educated nt Eton and Oxford. He was M.P. for Monmouthshire from 1880. to 1885, and in the two subsequent elections unsuccessfully contested the Northern Division of tho county. When Lord Salisbury went out of office, in 1892, Mr. Rolls was raised to tho Peerage. His heir is his eldest son, the Hon. J. M. Rolls. A younger son was tho Hon. Charles Stewart Rolls, tho well-known aviator, whd lost his life in a flight at Bournemouth in 1910.