DEATH OF THE EARL OF IDDESLEIGH.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1540, 15 January 1887, Page 3

DEATH OF THE EARL OF IDDESLEIGH.

London* Jan. 12. The Earl of Iddesleigh died suddenly • this afternoon. His Lordship was with Lord Salisbury «t the official residence, Downing street, when Le was taken ill, and expired in 21 few minutes. The.EarVa death was. caused by heart disease. When ascending the stairs in .Lord' Salisbury’s residence, Downing ; street, he waci suddenly seized with faintness, and died within twenty ' minutes.' Men of the Time gives the following account of his life■'* Northcote, The : Biuht Hon. Sir Stafford Henry, • ; Bart., G.G.8., M.P., F.R.8., eldest son ‘ of the late Henry Stafford Northcote, Esq., by his first wife, Agnes, only ' daughter of Thomas Oookburn, Esq., of Portland Place, London, was boro in London Oct. 27th, 1818. fie was i educated at Eton and at Balliol College, Oxford (B.A ~ first class in classics, and mathematics, 1839; M.A., 1842; Hon. D. 0.1., 1863). He was private /secretary to Mr Gladstone while that statesman was President of tbs Board of Trade (1843 415), and on being oal'ed to v the Bar wt the Inner Temple in 1847 he became Legal Secretary to the Board of Trade. On the death of bis grandfather, /'' Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, the seventh baronet, in 1851, be succeeded to the family title and estates. In acknowledgment of bia services as one of the Secretaries to the Gnat Exhibition he ....was created a (Civil) Companion of the' 'path. For saveral years he was engaged . with Sir 0. E. Trevelyan in inquiring into the condition of the civil establishment of the Crown, and they eventually drew 1 : up a report, presented in 1854, which led to the Civil Service being thrown open V for- public competition, fle represented .Dudley io the Conservative interest from - Merck, 1865, till April, 1868 ; and sat for . Stamford from July, 1857, till May 1866, when be was first elected for North ‘ ’Devon, which constituency, though it had rejected him a few years previously (in - 1867) has since returned him at every / succeeding general election. He was

Financial Secretary to the Treasury during the first half of the year 1869, and ha w»b appointed President of the Hoard of Trade in Lord Derby’s third administration, in June, 1866, when he was swi.ro of the Privy Council. From March, 1817, till December 1868, be was Secretary of State for India. He whs a member of the Joint High Commission whose labors resulted in the Treaty ot Vv • Kiington in 1871. When Mr Disraeli formed his Cabinet in February 1874, Sir Stafford Northoote was nominated Chancellor of the Exchequer, and he became hlso the leader of the Lower House, after the elevation of the Premier to the peerage as Lord Beucensfield. Just previous to the resignation of the Conservative Government in April, .1880, be was created a G.C.8.” It may be added that Sir Stafford Northcofe was elected Governor of the Hudeon’s Bay Company, Jan. 12th, I 86 0; presided over the Congress of the Social Science Ansocialion held ai iJrislol the same year; was appointed u commissioner to inquire into the law relating to Friendly Societies, Nov. 2nd, 1870; and was elected a Fellow of >he Royal Society in April, 1875. In 1843 he married Cecilia, daughter of Thomas Farrer, Esq,, of Lincolns Inn. He was the author of a number of political works. He was raised to the peerage in 1885. He is succeeded by his son, Viscount St. Cyres, who was born in 1845, and in 1868 married Elizabeth Lucy, daughter of the late Sr H. S. Moysey Thompson, Bart.