The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-04-01 00:00:00

Saban Etat of tbt Duke
of Albany.

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past been staying at Nice, and was on his w yOOO
attend the wedding of Primates Viatogia, at
Darmstadt. Tito sad event occurred at half.paet two
o'clock on Friday monolog, and was wholly tones-
the Priam appearing to have bensatted much
Frtitio stay in the s mei of Franoe, the climate of
the Is:silty bolas rmerdel as eminently gutted to his
somewhat delicate constitution. So shiesl Monday
last the Prior" who was deenribed as "looking
remarkably weU," warn present at the Bachelors' Ball
give* in room, of the Mediterranean Club at Ni..,
of which his Royal Highness was president, and he
remained until an advanced hour on Tuesday morn-
ing being in snob good health and spirits as to Wisely
one of the most gay and fashionable enter-
among. which it is said Nice had witnessed
for many someone. Indeed. his sojourn at Nice would
appear to have been • particularly pleasant otos, and
under the Invigorating inflasnee of the air he had
eatenrd with gest into the arrangements for recreation
and enjoymant which wive set on foot by the residents
and many distinguished visitors to the naighboarbood.
The deceased Prince, who was christened Lemoold
Goo's' Danctan Albert, was created Baron Ark! ,w,
Earl of Olarenoe, and Doke of Albany in the prereg•
of the United Kinglom in 1891, in additi in 4, which
he was • Knight of the szter, Knight tbe Thietle,
• Knight Grand Crossof the Star of India, • Knight
Grand Orme of St. Micheal and St. George, • Privy
Councillor, and • doctor of civil law. He was born at
Buokingham Palace on April 7th, 1858, and was thus
31 years of age. He matriculated at Oxford tlalversity
in 1873, b•ing created a D.C.L. in 1878. Wheu the
Prism attained his majority In 1874 Parliament voted
him a grant of £15,000 • year, and te this £lO,OOO •
year was aided on his marriage. Be warn married on
the 27th of April, 1882, to the Princess Hlino
Frederica Angela, daughter of his Remo* Highness
the reigning Priaoe of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Them
Is • daughter of this marrin•—Alice Mary Victoria
hairnet& Pauline, who was born at Windsor Omtl• on
the 25th of February, 1883.
The tidings of the drath of the Dabs of Albany, which
raved England en Friday, OSUMI with • shock of earoriaa
test added intensity to the feeding which such an event
most under any circumstances have eicitvd. The Duke
had from hie childhood been regarded with an •special
shire or the intend felt by the Q teen's subJecti In all
her children. Ho we. known to he delimit t • deem
that mule him a constant object of anxiety. flew., also
t1..1 to heir. been watched over with a tecd,rnese of
solicitode which seemed to ham at ',meth bend it.
requital In the oirentastan of hi. reaching mini ood,
sod bolas .1,1.1, ake on native part in the dates of his
stotlen, t which clothes musy years it was feared his
strength wood not have been equal. H. had lath rly
shown himself re& ly to 'lke up q !les 'lnns of social intare4
la a spirit •hich retuned tee elf trta of hi. (other, and •
kindred oapecity to grapple with and to speak of them
with no ordinsry vigour aid orginaity. All. ther for.,
limed eh .t hi, had outgrown the dellemY of Oaa.li,a-
ti ni which had mu** t hie early RN with much
guff woe; and orivition of the usual enloromult•
of boyh od and youth, ant looked forward to bis
cementing, by bit mills If-, the bottle of attachment
which everything that hes been known of her Illejsetes
children has for man. Toon b.,' Vile thild to otsblish.
A aria in that family 111 a grief to the nation. It haa
men them as in a doctors. In the aketions under the
Quem's own bond, in bee poSliebedl °urns's, and in the
rewords of the Prince Contort's ur.. and has ems to think
of them as a family united Into,. mil Newsom, to their
permits, and in devotion to each othsr, to an ezunpiavy
degree, full of warm sympathy, with human Buffering'
and DOTrOlrik and striving, each in his or her Ow, sphere,
to mt the example of a natio' dd. actitry, meal life.
Amid the general sympathy with the Duke's family
! which his death has ••akentd. the lons hi th• Q ...3 I.
• naturally most prominent t, roar mints. Bit for the
living and sear watchful Cu. tho no• eo suddealy
cut abort, could never have bee. p•otracte i even to the
beim swan which it hae realist. AIL that smith,,'. toys
could dot. ward off anichief from the child she loved so
well • all Diet could be done to lighten his 'offering& and
so bring brightness •nd Leawood int, the swlude lif. of
hie youth, WY devised awl studiously carried out by her
Nisbet r's forethought and motherly tenderness Else had
she him Safely what was rogerdod as the aritiesi
period of his life. She had seen him lumpily married,
and had shows bee pride lo that Great by c I lehratigte the
ceremonial of lin mulish. with • goliandour serpassiog,
aa Dims who witmemet thorn will remember, that
ot simllar *combos If, had iriv.it bar • grand.
child, and b• lied so established himself in
public favour that Wm may have fairly anticipated
for bias a car or nit usworthy of the name he bor.. To
her that name especisily seer, Bow dear may he seeskrtkaa "to King Leopold Anvil, lam, ettoct in I
Tboodoco Monies ' U. of the Moo Oman.' '