The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-04-18 00:00:00

SUDDEN DEATH OF THE LORD
MAYOR OF LONDON,

A gloom was cast over London on Saturday upon
the announcement of the fatal termination of the
illness which had suddenly seized Lord Mayor
Nottage and had hastened his return to the Mansion
House Nottage,
Brighton early in the week. An attack
of pleurisy came upon him whilst with the Lady
Mayoress at Brighton, and the pain was so great that
his lordship returned to town on Tuesday, having
telegraphed to Dr. F. A. Farr, of Earl's- court, Ken-
sington, to meet him at the Mansion House. Dr.
Farr did so, and after an examination, advised the
Lord Mayor to go to bed at once. At that time,
however, the Bluecoat boys were waiting in the
Egyptian Hall, for their annual Easter gifts of money
and, although suffering considerable pain at the
time, his lordship superintended the distribution,
and at the subsequent service in Christ Church,
Alderman Sir T. S. Owden took his place amongst the
boys. After the ceremony the Lord Mayor went to
bed, where to the great sorrow of his relatives
and friends, he rapidly became worse, and on
Friday morning the following bulletin was affixed to
the door of the Mansion House: "11.30, April 10,
1885.—The Lord Mayor has passed a restless night,
and his condition is not quite so satisfactory.—
(Signed) F. ARTHUR FARR, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P." The
Lady Mayoress and her daughter (Mrs. Palmer), as
well as Mr. C. G. Nottage, Mr. Palmer, and Dr. Farr
were in constant attendance. Throughout the night
it was apparent that recovery was hopeless. The
extreme exhaustion of the day deepened, as the night
advanced, into a state of coma, and at 7.35 on Satur-
day morning his lordship passed peacefully away.
The late Lord Mayor was descended from the
family of the Nottages, of Nottage, in Glamorgan-
shire, who afterwards settled in Essex, in which
county he spent his early youth. He was married in
1851, to Christiana, daughter of Mr. James Warner,
who was descended on her maternal side from the
Cheshire ramily of the Leftwiches. His lordship's
family consists of a son and daughter. The former,
Mr. Charles G. Nottage, graduated at Cambridge in
honours, and was afterwards called to the Bar at the
Inner Temple. His daughter is married to Mr.
Samuel Ernest Palmer, a partner in the well-known
Reading firm. His lordship was for many years
engaged in the iron business of his uncle, Mr. R. W.
Kennard, the late member for Newport. He is also a
nephew of the late Mr. Alderman Challis, who for
many years represented the borough of Finsbury in
Parliament; both the uncles of the late Lord Mayor
served the office of Sheriff of London and Middlesex
in the same year. He was the founder of
the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company,
which, with its agencies in various parts of the world,
has developed itself into the largest concern of its
kind. At Brighton his lordship was popular for the
great improvements he has made in the King's-road,
by the erection of numerous handsome buildings, one
of which—the Orleans Club—is familiar to all
visitors.
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He was sixty-two years Of age, was elected an alder
man in 1875, and served the office of sheriff in 1877,
in the Mayoralty of Sir Thomas Owden. He was
chosen Lord Mayor on Michaelmas Day last, and
entered upon office on Nov. 9. He was appointed a
magistrate for Middlesex in January last, and only
last week was decorated with a Servian Order by the
Minister of that country. The last Lord Mayor who
died during his Mayoralty was Mr. Alderman Beck-
ford, whose death occurred in 1770. The great bell
of St. Paul's tolled from eleven to twelve o'clock on
Saturday, and the Dead March in Saul was played at
'every service that day, likewise on Sunday. Refer-
ences were made to the mournful event in all the
metropolitan pulpits, and the most profound feeling
of sorrow and sympathy was manifested on all sides.

"Is it a asked a fashionable lady of her
spiritual director, "for me to feel pleawzre when a
gentleman says I am handsome?" "It is, my
dau,ghter," he replied gravely; "we should never
delight in falsehood."

DEATH OF THE LORD CHANCELLOR
OF IRELAND.

On Monday evening, Sir Edward Sullivan, Bart.
Lord Chancellor of Ireland, died suddenly at his
residence, Fitzwilliam-place, Dublin. His lordship
had been in excellent health, having attended the
levee and drawing-room held on behalf of the Queen
by the Prince and Princess of Wales, and at the
levee he presented the Attorney-General, besides
several members of the Bar. He was sixty-three
years of age, and in full intellectual vigour.
Having graduated at Dublin University, of which
he was one of the visitors, he was called to the
Bar in 1848, appointed Queen's Counsel in 1858,
became Serjeant-at-Law in 1860, Solicitor-
General in 1865, and Attorney-General in 1868, rep.
resenting Mallow in Parliament from 1865 to 1869,
when he succeeded Mr. Smith as Master of the Rolls.
On the death of Lord Chancellor Law he became
Lord Chancellor of Ireland. He distinguished him-
self in the celebrated Yelverton case, and in all
the great State trials of his time, prose-
cuting the Fenians when law officer. He
supported the disestablishment of the Irish
Church. During the Land League agitation
he was credited with being the backbone of the
Irish executive, and, in recognition of his abilities,
was created a baronet. He was a keen lawyer,
a sagacious judge, and one of the most tren-
chant in denouncing wrong that ever sat on
the bench. At the last meeting of the Benchers he
proposed that the Prince of Wales be entertained at
dinner, and the invitation was accepted for Monday
next. The news was received in the House of Com-
mons with many expressions of regret. The late
Lord Chancellor of Ireland was well known and
much respected in Parliamentary circles.