OBITUARY

Hokitika Guardian, 6 July 1921, Page 4

OBITUARY

LORD EUSTACE CECIL. AUSTKAMAN AND N Z. CAD UK ASSOCIATION. IiONDON, July 4. 'll io iloatli is annol l need of Lord Eustace Cecil, aged 87 years. (Lord Eustace l.lrownlow lleury Ceoil, who was horn in 1834, was the .second surviving son of the second Marquess of Salisbury. Ho was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, and entered the army in 1851. Ho served at the Cape and in India with the 43rd Lnrh. Infantry, and was nine months in the Crimean War with the Coldstream Guards. He represented South Essex in the House of Commons in the Conservative interest from July, 1865, to December 1868, and West Essex from 1816 until 1885. In February, 1875, (

ho was appointed Surveyor-General of Ordnance, which Tie retained until the resignation of his party in 1890). DARGAVILLE, July 5. Mr John Parkinson a well-known bus- , iness mail and building contractor, died somewhat suddenly on Friday. Deceased was a South African war veteran, and a member of the Diamond Jubilee contingent He was a prominent oarsman. A wife and two children are left. ROTORUA, July 5. Mr Stephen Thoas Brent, proprietor of Bathgate House, Rotrua, died on Saturday morning, aged 87 years. He was born at Prince Edward Island and went to Australia in 1854. He came t«> New Zealand in 1865, worked on the West Coast and at the Thames before going to Rotorua in 1874. He managed” a store at Tauranga until 1885. when he began building the Bathgate House. He was a member of the old Rotorua Town Board, a Justice of the Peace, and leaves a. widow, but no children.