AGED MARQUESS DEAD

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 611, 13 March 1929, Page 9

AGED MARQUESS DEAD

LORD RONALDSHAY HIS HEIR British Official Wireless RUGBY. Monday. The death occurred this morning of the Marquess of Zetland, one time Viceroy of Ireland, in his 85th year. His heir is the Earl of Ronaldshay. The new Marquess of Zetland, Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, Lari of ROll- - was born in June, 1876, and, like his father, educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. After leaving the university he visited Ceylon, India, Burma, Persia, Central Asia, Siberia, Japan and China. In 1900 in an interval in his wanderings he was A.D.C. to the Viceroy of India, the late Marquess Curzon. A few years later he returned to England and in 1907 was elected Conservative M.P. for Hornsey. He held that seat until 1916, but in 1912 his intimate knowledge of Indian affairs gained from his extensive wanderings caused him to be appointed a member of the Royal Commission on the Public Services in India. In 1917, however, lie went back to India as Governor of Bengal, and after his retirement from that post in 1922 lie showed no desire to return to political life. The new marquess lias written a number of books, the most important of which is his biography of the. late Marquess Curzon, his former chief. Among his earlier books are “Sport and Politics Under an Eastern Sky,” ‘‘On the Outskirts of Empire in Asia,” “A Wandering Student in the Far East,” “India: A Bird’s-eye View,” and “The Heart of Aryavarta.”