The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-07-14 00:00:00

THE LATE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH.

The remains of the late Duke of Marlborough,
K.G., were interred on Tuesday afternoon in the
chapel at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock. The funeral
was essentially of a private character, but the friends
of the deceased nobleman, to the number of about 200,
who had come down from London in a special train
and were met by carriages at the Woodstock•road
Station, some three miles from the palace, assembled
in the hall about half•past twelve.
Exactly at one o'clock the procession started from
the hall and proceeded round the quadrangle to the
chapel, which is in the west of the palace, where the
cort6ge was met by the Rev. Arthur Majendie Vicar
of Woodstock, who officiated at the service. Imme-
diately on entering the chapel the hymn " I heard the
voice of Jesus say" was sung by the choir. The care.
mony was concluded by the singing of the hymn "My
God, my Father, whilst I stray."
The procession, on emerging from the hall, was
headed by the tenantry and the Mayor and Corporation
of Woodstock, followed by the body. The mourners,
the county magistrates, the representatives of the
University, and others fAlowing after:
The pelt-bearers included the Earl of Camperdown,
Sir Stafford Northcote, the Earl of Galloway, the
Earl of Maccl,sfield, and Sir Percy Barnard. The
chief mourners were the Marquis of Blandford and his
son, Lord Randolph Churchill, the Duke of Roxbprghe,
Lord Alfred Churchill, Viscount Curzon, Mr. Mar-
joribanks, and Captain Fellowes.
The inscription on the coffin, which was of polished
oak with handsome brass fittings, and which was pro-
fusely covered with flowers, was as follows ;—'• In
memoriam. John Winston, 7th Duke of Marlborough,
KG. Born 2nd June, 1822, Died 4th July, 1883."

The sad event of the sudden death, only a few hours
previously, of the Duke of Marlborough, for many
years the president of the institution, came specially
under notice of a large and influential meeting of the
committee of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and
Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society, held at the
society's central office, Hibernia-chambers, London.
bridge, on Friday in last week, His Grace was to have
presided at the 4413 annual meeting of the society,
announced to take place in Fishmonger's hall, on the
nth of July, for arrangement of the final details of
which occasion the committee had 13,:en brought
together; and the nnexpecl,ed tidings of the untimely
loss of their president was felt as a very keen shock
by the whole committee. A resolution of condolence,
tendering to the late Duke's family the unanimous ex-
pression of the committee's heartfelt sympathy with
them in their great bereavement, was specially passed,
as well as a further resolution formally postponing,
under all the melancholy circumstance, the holding of
the proposed annual meeting sine die.
The following resolution was passed Isy the Grand
Jury at the Oxfordshire Assizea previous to their
being dischsrged, on Saturday last, for presentation
to the Duchess :—" The Grand Jury at the Oxford-
shire Summer Assizes desire to express to her Grace
the Duchess of Marlborough their deep sense of the
great loss which the county has sustained in the
lamented death of the Lord Lieutenant. They would
place on record their high appreciation of the honour
and rectitude of his public career, and of his unfailing
urbanity and courtesy, and they venture, collectively
and individually, to offer to her Grace in her great
sorrow their sincere condolence. Dated the County
Hall, Oxford, this 7th day of July, L 383, C. E.
THORNHILL, Foreman."