DEATH OF LORD IDDESLEIGH.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 191, 12 February 1887, Page 4

DEATH OF LORD IDDESLEIGH.

Sir Station! Northcole (Lord lddesleigh) w.w taken surtdcnh ill on the allernoon ot .January 10th, while ascending the blahs of Jjord .Salisbury's residence in llownmg-atreet lie was taken into the Prime Jlmibtcr's room, and almost instantly expired. In the bulletin concerning the event, issued by Dr. jUoi tuner Grauville, his lordship's physician, it is stated that for man> > ears past the deceased peer suffered from c.udiac atR-etions, winch, while not placing his life in immeuiate peril, rendered its sudden termination only too possible. He died of syncope. The melancholy happening, al thoiigh startling to those aiound him, has not been unforeseen bj his immediate iriemK and has boon unticipafed by his medical attendants. Lord Iddesle-Tgh, a moment before leaving the Foreign OftWspoko to bi.t James Ferguson, Undcr-Secretaty. very calmly about theoilice. lie expressed iho hope, said Sir James, when talking on the subject, that our separation would not be permanent. Homy M. Stanley, the exploier. was waiting to aeo him about the Fmir Bey expedition, and Lord Jddosleigh asked Sir James to meet and make another appointment for later in the evening. Lord Iddesieigh was then looking well, in tad, better than usual. He conversed plensamly, and v.hon he parted with his subordinate v»»-> in good spirits. Lord Salisbury arri.cd shorlh alter Lord Iddeslcigh was taken ill, and whilr the doctors were trj ing to rally him. He was greuMy aileoled by the death of his fori ler ma-ter. His private secrotary, Manner?, told an interviewer that the moment* Lord Iddesieigh came inside the antovoom, he sank down upon a chair. ' I wns in the next room. Hearing groans I went into the ante-room, and lifted him to a sora. The doctors were in immediate attendance, and remedies were speedily applied, but Lord Iddesleigh never spoke. He died twenty minutes after ho was token ill. His son. Henry Stafford Northcote, was sent for. but did not reach his father until ten minutes after all was over. Ho left later for the family seat in Exeter to tell his mother of her husbana s death. The Queen was deeply affected by the news of tho Earl's sudden tuking off, and immediately sent a telegram expressing sympathy with the widow and his family. Gladstone, who always highly esteemed Lord Iddesleigh, was much affected.