Obituary.

Manawatu Herald, 29 January 1895, Page 3

Obituary.

LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL. Lord Randolph Churchill died on Thursday after being in a state of coma for 86 hours. His end was peaceful. The deathbed was surrounded by members of his family. [Churchill, the Bight Hon. Lord Randolph Henry Spencer, M.P., second son of the sixth Duke of Marlborough by his marriage with Lady Frances Anne Emily, eldest daughter of the third Marquis of Londonderry, was born Feb. 13, 1849, and educated at Merton College, Oxford. He represented Woddstock from Feb, 1874, until April, 1880, and again from that time (when he was returned with a diminished majority) until Nov. 1885. He afterwards stood for Birmingham, but was defeated, and was then returned for South Paddington. From 1874 to 1880 he was almost silent in the House ; but from 1880 onward he made himself conspicuous in the House of Commons and on public platforms by the viftle&oe of his speeches against the Liberal Party,- and he was the chief member of that small section of the House known as the "Fourth Party." On the accession of Lord Salisbury's Government to office in T 1885, Lord Bandolph Churchill filled the post of Secretary of State for India ; and his promotion to that high place was a proof of the importance he had assumed in the ranks of the Conservative Party. In the oountry, indeed, he was already regarded, as almost, if not quite, the Tory leader ; and it was commonly gaw-tfeat the mantle of Lord BeaconsfUjtfPiiad fallen on his shoulders. Lord Randolph's tenure of the India Office was marked by the annexation *^of Upper Burmah. Departmental work, however, did not prevent his taking a great part in the struggle at? the general election of November, 1885; which again returned the Liberals to power. He resigned h office with Lord Salisbury only to -return after six months as Chan jcellov-of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons, but he resigned in Dec. of the same year.] The English and foreign press contain laudatory notices of the -death of Lord R. Churchill.