OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1664, 3 February 1913, Page 5

OBITUARY

. LORD ILKESTON., . " .—' • • ■ , r By : Telegraph-Press Afisociatlon-Oopyrizht Londoi), January 81. . The death is reported of Lord Ilkeston, the .celebrated physician, aged .72. •;, The'first Lord Ilkeston, tetter, known as Sir rßalthazar Walter Foster, was an ; eminent consulting physician, who' went into 'politics while'-ho' resided in'Bim'ing-; ham, lint clavn 'td' the .Tabernacle' iit ! .the' tirrio' of Mr. Chamberlain's defection.'- Ho was li Mori of the lato Mr. Balthazar-Foster, of..DrcKheda,.'where he,'was born. in 1840. FromVDrogheda Grammar .School', and Trinity. College, Dublin; he went, to complete his medical education at- Queen's College, Birmingham, and settled.'down' in practice in thati,city, where 'he held a number of professional appointments.,, As President of tho National Liborai Federation from 1886 till .1800, he had a good .deal to do with- Radical organisation in the. years following the Home Bale split, and,,having lost his seat for Chester in 1886, he got ii)to Parliament again for the .Ilkeston Division in the following Ho was Secretary to the Local Government Board in Lord-Eosebery's Liberal Ministry, atid took a- closa interest an the question of allotments and small holdings; He was created a baron in 1910. His heir iß_his son, the Hon. Balthazar, Foster, a at Birmingham, who' Was born in. 18G7. j 'the e'ael of ceawfoed. (Eec. February 2, 5.5 p.m.)

London, February 1. . The death is announced of the Earl of Crawford,-aged 65. '

James Ludovic Lindsay, K.T., LL.D., F.R.S., twenty-sixth Earl of Crawford, ninth Earl of Balcarres, and thirty-fourth Lord liindsay !of Crawford was the Premier, Earl of Scotland. Marston Moor,. Flodden, and-an attainder or two are incidents in tho history of His famjlv as we follow it baok to the first Earl,'a gallant knight who, for the honour of Scotland, - overthrew an English antagonist in a passage of arms' on I/omlon Bridtro before Richard 11, and married King Robert ll's daughter.' In the House of Lords the' Earl of Crawford sits as Lord Wigan in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The late peer was a distinguished astronomer, who had been President of the Astronomical Society, and wrote several astronomical works.. He was also President of the Camden Society; a ■ Commander of the Legion of Honour, and a Trustee of the British Museum. He represented Wigan in the House of Commons from: 1874 to 1880; , Born in 1817, ho was educated at Eton and Trinity, Cambridge, and succeeded his father in 1880. The Earl of Crawford was formerly a lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards, and commanded .the Ist V.B._ Manchester Regiment. He mar-; ried Emily Florence, daughter of the late Colonel tho Hon. Edward Bootle-Wilbra-liarn, and his heir is his son, Lord Balcartes, M.P. for tho „Chorley Division. ADMIRAL SIR F, BEDFORD. ■ (Bee. 'February. 2, 5.5 p.m.) , London, February 1. Admiral Sir- Frederick Bedford, G.C.M.G., G.C.8., Governor of "West Australia from 1903 to 1909, is dead, aged 74.

The late Sir Frederick Bedford was the 6on of Vice-Admiral E. .1, Bedford. Ho entered the Navy in 1852, nncl hvo years later saw service in the Black Sea during the Crimean War. He was present at the bombardments of Odessa and Sebastopol, and later took part in the fighting in tho Baltic. In 1875-76 he commanded TI.M.S. Serapis, in which tho late King Edward, then I'rinco of Wales, visited'lndia.- As captain of 11.M.5. Shah, Sir Frederick Bedford fought an inconclusive engagement with the Peruvian ironclad Huasc-ar, at a time when the two countries wero not in a state of war. Ho took part in tho bombardment 'of Alexandria in tho 'eighties, and ill the early 'nineties saw a good deal of nctivo service on tho West Coast of Africa, later returning to London to act as a Lord 1 of tho Admiralty.