OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1773, 11 June 1913, Page 7

OBITUARY.

RIGHT HON. GEORGE WYNDHAM. By Toleeraph—Prcsa Association—Copyright London, June !). Mr. Georga Wyndham, M.P., formerly Unionist Chief Secretary for Ireland, died of heart failure in Paris. Tho late Bight Hon. George Wyndham was torn and educated at Eton and .Sandhurst. Ho entered the Army (joining the Coldstream Guards), aud served during the Suakijn campaign and in Cyprus. Retiring from the Army, ho became private secretary to the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, later Parliamentary Under-Sccrctary for War: In I'JOO ho was elevated to Cabinet rank, and from that dato to 1905 was ■Chief Secretary for Ireland. He was elected unopposed for Dover at the General Election of 1911. Mr. Wyndham was Lord Rector of Glasgow University in 1902, and Lord Hector of Edinburgh University in 1008. His publications include "North's Plutarch (Tudor Classics)," "Shakespeare's Poems," and "I'onsard ,md Pleiade." An interesting biographical sketch of the late statesman was published in the "Pail Mall Gazette's" "Guido to the New House of Commons of 19n." "Tho former Chief Secretary for Ireland," said the writer, "lias quite regained his position in the parly, and he is one of the chief lieutenants upon whom Mr. Balfour aud the Unionist party behind him have, to depend in fighting their battles with the Radical Ministry. The AlocDonneU incident was an unfortunate and instructive slip in a career of rapid and otherwise unbroken success. Mr. Wyndham had nlrcady won golden opinions as private secretary to Mr. Balfour, and as Undcr-Sec-I rotary for War.when Lord Salisbury conferred the Irish Secretaryship upon him in tho course of reconstructing his Government after the election of 1900, His mind was loaded with benevolent intentions towards tho distressful eountrv placed in his charge, and ho began brilliantly by piloting the Land Act of through the House of Commons. His sueco&s in gaining the assent of all parties to that measure seems to have inspired tho Chief Secretary with daring, and, as it proved, delusive hopes of what lie might further accomplish in the healing of. Irish animosities. He took the bold Btep, for a Conservative Minister, of appointing Sir Antony MacDounell, a Reman Catholic and u Home Ruler, to the post of Permanent Under-Secretary, and of conferring on him a discretion beyond all precedents in the relations between the responsible statesman and his official subordinates. The consequences of that departure, culminating in Mr. Wymlham's own 1 departure from the Treasury Bench in March of 1905, provoked a severe illness, but Mr. Wyndham recovered in time to take an active part in the General Election. He is one of the best and most useful debaters who could be at the service of any party—clear, finished, moderate, tactful, and conciliatory." TRIBUTE IN THE HOUSE. London, Juno 9. In the House of Commons, when moving the second reading of tho Home Rule Bill, tho Premier, Mr. Asquith, paid a tribute to tho lato Mr. AVvndham.