OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2169, 6 June 1914, Page 5

OBITUARY

SIR DOPGfrAS SfttAlgaT. By TelesraDli-Piese AEcq<!fea.oii-eio.eyilpAt ■ . Jimkj 5. Sir Donq'as Straight, tamprary treasurer of the Newspaper Sd<j:ie.te 'aind of the Institute of 4<Mrn,aßs.ts, i$ dead,' Sir Douglaa Lj.p., J.p v> rai? born in London in October,. $ii, aud cated at Temple ©rave .(B.ag.t SB.een) *pdl Harrow. He was efigaKed , ift a.etys.pa.jyer and masiazino worlc ttirttl. 1865, when he was called to the Bair, sotiii get^nj; , a. large and . lueratiyS imictipiv and other cases., In ISJO. he ms eJaeteff to the House of Commoiip a.s. nvcmfcr for' Shrewsbury, and rppTeseiitfej that con.6tituency_ until ISF4. , ftir mis<> jSart ha was junior counsel for the Tffeisffl>y asd the Bankers' Association nt £i) 6. Oenfrst Criminal Court, j»il 137.9 wks ap,point_ed a Jn<l?e of the Pigh Gaurt of Judipa'tiire at Allahabad, '&. tsositiejt ifrcim ivM/tli he retired on pJnsJon jii 1892 i Jte Vf,ie editor of the "Pali: Mall gazette"' from 1896 to 1909. ' ■'.

SIR WILLIAM ANPON.. M.P

(Rec. June o, 3:0,2-3 p.m.) "LeßWdfi, June, .5, The death is ann.ou»eed of Sir tyi&iaHi, Anson, Unionist uvasibor lot , Qsford University, at the ago. of 71.

Sir William AnSOtt., third liaroßefc, wjis first heard of politically in JSsUj wioji he made an nusucctssfui ajVrwarAnce as 4 Liberal candidate, bnt he~uM pot fictnally enter Oh? House imtil his presap-t seqit became vacant in 1-SffS. A Sfitabfe olJke: was soon found far bini 53 P«irlia)mcttt.ary Secretary to the. Poa*d of EdwflWffn. and he proved a steady iiiul usejiil: pijjjvr of the 1900 Goveriittiosrt. Sir IPilUam fcas written important; btKife ufi»r. GonStifeitional Law and th 4 Law 0' CoOtTwt. Ho wn9 imr"irried, rtivd awtsn'sst !!■ v«*-!r , t.v of public offices he fcag. been. Vta-ChaiicftJ-lor of his University, clinsmiiH of t.no Oxfordshire Quarter. SesSj.pM, an AM*rman of the Citv ftf Oxfwd aiid a Trustee of the National Portrait Giil'lery.