Marquis of Dufferin.
Dublin, Jan. 25
The Marquis of Dufferin and Ava, who has won every distinction that can be conferred lor brilliant service in the highest and most responsible posts ot the public service—a great administrator, a great diplomat, a man of letters, whose manifold achievements have won him world-wide renown—is ending his days under painfully pathetic circumstances in his Irish castle in County Antrim. Though full of honors, he retired from life comparatively poor. He was induced to give his illustrious name in succession to that of Lord Loch (a former British High Commissioner in South Africa) to the directorate of companies floated by Whittaker Wright, who was then rapidly accumulating a large fortune by *' rigging the Westralian mining market. The Whittaker Wright bubble hurst a year ago. His companies are now in ‘liquidation, having ruined a great number of credulous people, who say they were tempted to invest their money by Dufferin s name. Whittaker Wright is Demg questioned in the bankruptcy court concerning his company' manipulations, while Lord Dufferin is dying under the shadow of this fatal connection.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 359, 8 March 1902, Page 1
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