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BENTINCK.-Mr. G. W. P. Bentinck, formerly M.P. for West Norfolk, died Feb. 19. He was familiarly known as Big Ben," and sat in the House of Commons for nearly thirty years.

BROUGHAM.-Lord Brougham and Vaux died Jan. 3, aged 91. He was brother to the famous Chancellor, and formerly sat in the Lower House as member for Southwark,

BROOKS.-Mr. John Brooks, M.P. for the 1 Altrincham Division of Cheshire, died March 8, after a few days' illness, aged 30.

BURRELL.-Sir Walter W. Burrell, Bt., late Conservative M. P. for the borough of New Shoreham, died Jan. 24, aged 72. He was the Grand Master of the Sussex Province of Freemasons.

CARDWELL.- Viscount Cardwell died Feb. 15, at Torquay, aged 73. He entered Parliament in 1842 as member for Clitheroe, and was elected for Liverpool in 1847, losing his seat at the general election of 1852. In 1853 he was returned for Oxford, was defeated in 1857, but regained his seat the same year, and continued to represent the city until he was raised to the Peerage in 1874. Having filled various posts under the Aberdeen, Palmerston, and Russell Administrations, he became Secretary of State for War in 1868, and in that capacity carried through Parliament measures for the abolition of purchase, the establishment of short service, and the localisation of the forces.

CHICHESTER.-The Earl of Chichester died March 16, aged 82. He had served as a Charity Commissioner, and afterwards as

first Commissioner of Church Estates.. He was also Lord-Lieutenant of Sussex.

CHILDERS.-Mr. J. W. Childers, uncle of the Rt. Hon. H. C. E. Childers, M.P., died Feb. 8, aged 88. He sat for Cambridgeshire and Malton in Parliament prior to 1852.

COLVILE.-Colonel Charles Robert Colvile, who for 21 years represented South Derbyshire, first as a Conservative and afterwards as a Liberal, died March 10, aged 71.

CREWE.-Sir John Harpur Crewe, ninth baronet, died at Calke Abbey, on March 1, aged 62.

CROSSE.-Mr. Thomas Bright Crosse, of Shaw-Hill, Chorley, Lancashire, formerly M.P. for Wigan, died on March 21.

EDWARDS.-Sir Henry Edwards, of Pye Nest, Halifax, died April 23, in his seventyfourth year. He was a Conservative, and represented Halifax from 1847 to 1852, and Beverley from 1857 to 1868, when the borough was disfranchised.

FALKLAND.-Admiral Viscount Falkland in the Peerage of Scotland, died Feb. 1, aged 80. He entered the Royal Navy in 1820, and served in the Burmese War.

FORESTER.-General Lord Forester died Feb. 16, aged 79. He was member for Wenlock from 1828 to 1874, and was the "father of the House of Commons" at the time of his accession to the peerage.

Erskine FARNBOROUGH.-Sir Thomas May, formerly Clerk of the House of Commons, and author of the well-known "Constitutional History," and other standard works, died May 17, aged 71. He had been created a peer, under the title of Lord Farnborough, but did not live to take his seat in the House of Lords.

FINLAY.-Mr. A. S. Finlay, of Castle Toward, Argyllshire, formerly Liberal M.P. for that county, died June 9, aged 80.

FOLLETT.-Mr. B. S. Follett, Q.C., died Jan. 23. He had been for some years Chief Registrar of the Land Registry Office, and was previously Conservative M. P. for Bridgwater.

FORSTER.-The Rt. Hon. W. E. Forster, M.P. for Central Bradford, died April 5, aged 66. He carried on the trade of a worsted manufacturer at Bradford till

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1859, when he contested Leeds without success; in Feb. 1861, he was elected for Bradford, which borough he represented up to the time of his death, selecting, on the borough being divided by the Redistribution Act of 1885, the Central division. He was Under-Secretary of the Colonies, 1865-66; Vice-President of the Council, 1868-74, and under his auspices the Education Act of 1870 became law. In April, 1880, he was appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, but declining to be a party to the "Treaty of Kilmainham," in May, 1882, he resigned, since which time he had not held office.

HARTLEY.-Mr. James Hartley, of Ashbrooke Hall, Sunderland, formerly Conservative member for Sunderland, died May 24, aged 75.

HOARE.-Mr. Joseph Hoare, of Hampstead, President of the Local Conservative Association, and member for Hull in 1859, died Jan. 21.

HOBART PASHA.-Hobart Pasha, the celebrated Anglo-Turkish Admiral, died June 19.

JOHNSON.-Sir William Johnson, Conservative member for Belfast in 1841-2, and ex-mayor of that town, died April 9.

KERRISON.-Sir Edward Kerrison, Bt., died July 12, aged 67. He formerly represented Suffolk and Eye in Parliament.

LAWRENCE.-Mr. Thomas Northmore Lawrence, Barrister-at-Law, formerly Conservative candidate for the Launceston Division, died July 8, aged 42.

LLUELLYN.-Mr. Raymond Lluellyn, the Conservative candidate for South Islington, died June 26, from effects of illness brought on by his active political campaign.

MASON. Mr. Hugh Mason, ex-M.P. for Ashton-under-Lyne, died Feb. 2, aged 66. In 1880 he was returned to Parliament for Ashton-under-Lyne, and continued to represent that constituency till the general election of 1885, when he was defeated by 46 votes. Mr. Mason was an advanced Liberal.

MATHESON.-Sir Alex. Matheson, Bt., formerly Liberal M.P. for Ross and Cromarty, died July 26, aged 81 years.

MCKANE.-Mr. John McKane, M.P. for Mid-Armagh, died Jan. 10. He was professor of Civil Law in Queen's College, Belfast. but resigned that position on coming forward a8 a Conservative candidate for Armagh.

MELLER.-Col. Walter Meller, formerly Conservative member for Stafford, died Jan. 10, aged 67.

MELVILLE.-Viscount Melville died Feb. 18, aged 82. He had been many years Store-keeper-General of the Navy.

MCLAREN.-Mr. Duncan McLaren, exM.P. for Edinburgh, died April 26, at Edinburgh, aged 86. He represented Edinburgh from 1865 to 1881, was elected Lord Provost in 1851, and continued in the office until 1854. He was a brother-in-law of Mr. John Bright, M.P.

PENRHYN.-Lord Penrhyn died at Penrhyn Castle, Bangor, March 31, in his 86th year. He was a younger son of the 18th Earl of Morton, and was raised to the Peerage as Baron Penrhyn in 1866, in which year he was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Carnarvonshire. He sat as M.P. for Carnarvonshire from 1841 to 1866.

PIM.-Admiral Bedford Pim died Sept. 30, in his 61st year. He sat in Parliament as Conservative member for Gravesend from 1874 to 1880, and was previously well known as an intrepid Arctic explorer.

PITMAN.-Capt. S. Pitman, a well-known sportsman and Conservative politician in Somersetshire, died April 15.

PRICE.-Major W. E. Price, formerly Liberal member for Tewkesbury, died Feb. 10, aged 45.

REDESDALE.-The Earl of Redesdale died May 2, age 80. He succeeded to the barony in 1830, and was elected Chairman of Committees and Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords in 1851, which post he held until his death. In recognition of his valuable ser vices he was created an earl in 1877. deceased peer was President of Cheltenham College, a Governor of Wellington College, Hon. D.C.L. of Oxford, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. The earldom and barony became extinct by his death.

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SALTOUN.-Lord Saltoun, a Representa tive Scottish Peer, died suddenly in London on Feb. 3.

SHAFTESBURY.-The Earl of Shaftesbury, who died April 14, was the son of the late distinguished philanthropist, and was born 1831. He was educated at Rugby, and as an officer in the Royal Navy served in the Black Sea and the Baltic during the Crimean war, 1854-5. In 1856 he was attached to Earl Granville's special Embassy to Mos COW. He sat in the House of Commons for

Hull from 1857 till 1859, and for Cricklade from 1859 to 1865. He was a Liberal-Conservative in politics.

SHERARD.-Lord Sherard, a peer of Ireland, died Mar. 16, aged 82.

SOMERSET.-General E. A. Somerset, C.B., Colonel Commandant of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, died March 12, aged 69. He sat in the House of Commons, in the Conservative interest, as member for West Gloucestershire, from 1867 to 1868.

STRATHALLAN.-Viscount Strathallan, one of the Scottish Representative Peers, died Jan. 23, aged 76.

STURT.-Colonel Charles Napier Sturt, died March 13, in his 54th year. He served in the Grenadier Guards from 1851 to 1880, and was severely wounded at Inkerman. He sat as Conservative member for Dorchester from 1856 until 1874.

TOTTENHAM.-Mr. Charles Tottenham, formerly Conservative M.P. for New Ross, died June 1.

TRENCH.-The Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Richard Chevenix Trench, Archbishop of Dublin, 1863-1884, died on March 29, in his 79th year. He was Dean of Westminster, 1856-1863.

TREVELYAN.-Sir Charles Trevelyan, Bt., father of the Rt. Hon. G. O. Trevelyan, died June 19, aged 79. He had served with distinction at home and in India, had been Assistant Secretary to the Treasury, Gover

nor of Madras, and Financial Member of the Council of India, and was for his public services created a baronet in 1874.

TULLOCH.-The Very Rev. Principal Tulloch, of St. Andrews University, died at Torquay, Feb. 13, aged 63. He became Principal of St. Mary's College, University of St. Andrews, in 1854, and was widely known as one of the ablest leaders of the Established Church in Scotland.

TURNOR.-Mr. Christopher Turnor, of Stoke Rochford, Lincolnshire, formerly M.P. for the Southern Division of that county, died March 7, aged 77.

VILLEBOIS.-Mr. Henry Villebois, of Marham House, Norfolk, a prominent local Conservative, died March 19, aged 79.

WALPOLE.-Mrs. Walpole, wife of the Rt. Hon. S. H. Walpole, died July 16, aged 85.

WAVENEY.-Lord Waveney died Feb. 15, aged 75. He had represented Cambridge in Parliament, and had several times unsuccessfully contested East Suffolk. The peerage became extinct by his death.

WHEELHOUSE.-Sir William St. James Wheelhouse, Q.C., died in London, March 8, aged 65. He was formerly M.P. for Leeds,

WOOD.-Mr. E. H. Wood, of Raasay, Skye, a prominent Conservative landowner, died April 7, aged 36.

YEAMAN.-Mr. James Yeaman, M.P. for Dundee as an Independent Liberal, 1873-80, died April 10, in his 70th year. He supported Lord Beaconsfield's Government on the Eastern Question.