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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4934, 25 January 1895, Page 2

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[ Unilei Press Association.'] (By Electric 'Mgraph,-Copyright), OBITUARY. LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL (Received January 25, 10 a.m.) ff Lokdon, January 24. Lord Randolph Churchill died today, after being in a state of coiua for thirty-six hours. His end was peaceful, and his death-bed surrounded by the membora of his family. [Churchill, Rt. Honorable Lord Randolph, M.P., 6ccond 6on of the sixth Duke of Marlborough, wan born at Blenheim Palace on February 13th, 1849; graduated at Merton College, Oxford, 1871. Hon. L.L D. Cambrige, 1887. Married in 1874, Jennie, daughter of the late Mr L. Juronu', of New York. In the same year he entered Parliament as Conservative M.P. for Woodstock. He made his maiden speech the first year he sat in Purlinmeiif, ami was complimented by his future antagonist, Sir William* Havconrt, but from 1875 to 1579 he* raroly addressed the House. Tho collapso of the Conservative party at the general election of 1880 acted, however, as a spur to Lord dolpb, and ho soon distinguishes himself as an audacious and very powerful debater. With Mr (now Sir John) Gorst and Sir Henry Drummond-Wolff, lie formed the Fourth Party. Mr Arthur Balfour iiudEurl l'eroy occasionally associated themselves with the three, but Lord Randolph was the lifcuud soul of the combination. He took a prominent part in the Brudlaugh debates, and was at last frankly recognised as a new and powerful political force. From this poiut he became one of the leaders of the Conservative party. When the Liberal Government was overthrown on the Budget in June, 1885, he received the Indian Secretaryship, Tho general election took place in November, 1885, and Lord Randolph was defeated at Birmiughain, where ho opposed tho Rt. Hon. Sir John Bright; but he was elected for South Paddington. When Mr Gladstone was defeated on the second reading of his Home Rule Bill, Lord Salisbury was again called to the helm, and in the neitt. Ministry, formed in July, 1886, Lory Randolph Churchill was appointed leader of tho Houso of Commons, and Chancellor of the Exchoxuor. His most remarkable spoech during the recess was made at Dartford, where ho unfolded a programme which his opponents declared to be Liberal, if not Radical, and which some of his friends felt to be anything but Conservative. Tho resignation of Lord Randolph, on December 23rd, 1885, took both friends and opponents by surprise, The reasons given for taking this unexpected course were differences with his colleagues on tho subjoct of the naval and military estimates. Tho attitude which his lordship assumed in advocacy of financial roforms led to the appointment of a Royal Commission of Inquiry into tho civil administration of the great spending departments. In January, 1858, Lord Randolph visited St. Petersburg. On the death of Mr Bright, in March, 1889, his lordship* declined an invitation to contest Central Birmingham, He did this' at tho request of Mr Chamberlain, with whom ho subsequently had an acrimonious controversy in tho public press. Lord Randolph addressed his constituents in February, 1891, on which occasion he said ho would ntill reserve to himself the right to maintain an independent position with regard to the action of the Government. Ho also alluded to the labour question and to general politics. Started on a tour in South Africa in May, 1891, whence hit lordship wrote a series of letters to tho Daily Graphic, and returned in January, 1892, He was again elected for South Paddington at the general election in July.]