The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-11-08 00:00:00

DEATH OF THE POSTMASTER-

GENERAL.

We regret to announce that Mr. Fawcett, the
Postmas:er-Genkril, died on Thursday afternoon at
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anxiety. Mr, Fawcett, who was born at Salisbury
in 1.33, entered the House of Commons as member
In lifight.,o in 1865, and in 1874 was returned for
Hackney, His first important political speech was
Ii yered in the House of Commons on March 3rd,
1873, •xlieo he -;)(0:0 and voted against Mr. Glad-
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rostira,;ter .General in April, 1880, and was elected
tJr o G 1 sgow University in 1883.
Tae to ss A,boviat.on's Salisbury correspondent .
sitys : The news of rioft:is'ir Fawcett's death has
rotted widesprLad sorrow here. The right hoe.
gentleman was in the city only last week. His
father is ninety-two years of age, and last week
spoke at a great Liberal meeting.
A Cambridge telegram states that the death of
the Pestmaster-General occurred at 5.30 p.m. He
arrived in Cambridge from London on Saturday,
and went for a ride on horseback for about fourteen
miles, after which he had some friends to dinner at
his residence, Brookside. On Sunday he was Indio-
posed, a,ad it was deemed expedient to call in Dr.
L.,tham, who pronounced the affection to be
pleurisy and pneumonia. Dr. Paget was also sum-
moned on Montlay.night. On Tuesday Mr. Faw-
cett was very ill, but there was thought to be an
improvement on Wednesday. Mrs. Garrett Ander-
son, sister to Mrs. Fawcett, came down on Wednes-
day, and entertained grave misgivings about the
patient's condition. On Thursday morning there
was con; iderable failure of the heart's . power, and
Sir Andrew Clarke was summoned from London to
see the patient, who, however, got worse and died at
5-30 whilst Sir Andrew was with him. The actual
cause of death was failure of the heart. At present
no arrangements have been made.as to the right
i 101). gentleman. Much sympathy is felt in all
circles for Mrs. Fawcett and for the aged parents of
the Postinaster-Generai. • A telegram from Cam-
bridge to the Government announcing the sad event
did not add any particulars of his last hours. Mr.
Fawcett was in attendance at his official duties so
late as Friday, when he visited the House of Com-
mons.

Henry Fawcett, M.P,. Professor of Political
Economy at Cambridge, son of Mr. W. Fawcett. J.P.,
of Salisbury, born 1833, was educated at Trinity
Hall, Cambridge. of which he was a scholar; gradu-
ated in high matnematical honours in 1856, and was
elected a Fellow of the society in the same year.
Mr. Fawcett was totally deprived of his sight by an
accident when out shooting in tieptember, 1856.
Having written and published "A Manual of Politi-
cal Economy," the "Economic Position of the
British Labourer,' 1865, and having been an ex-
tensive contributor of articles on economic and poli-
tical ecience to various magazines and reviews, he
was elected, in 1860, Professor of Political Economy
'in the University of Cambridge. He unsuccessfully
contested, on Liberal principles, Southwark, in 1857,
the borough of Cambridge, in 1862, and Brighton.,
in February. 1864 ; was returned for the last men—
tioned constituency at the general election in July,
1865; and was re-elected in 1868. He was unseated
at Brighton at the general election of February.
1874, and was elected for Hackney in April of the
sameyear. On the formation of Mr. Glaustone's Ad-
ministration in April, 1880, he was appointed Post-
master-General. The University of Warzburg, on
the occasion of its tercentenary in 1882 conferred
upon Mr. Fawcett the honorary degree of Doctor in
Political Economy. A new and revised edition of
his "Manual of Political Economy" was published
in 1869, with two new chapters on "National Edu-
cation" and "The Po a. Laws and their Influence on
Pauperism," and another editien with some ad-
ditional chapters, wai published in 1874. He has
since published "Pauperism, its Causes and Reme-
dies," 1871; "Speeches on some current Political
Questions," 1873; and "Free Trade and Protection,"
1878. Professor Fawcett married Millicent, daughter
of Mr. Newson Garrett, of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, on
April 23, 1867. Mrs. Fawcett, who was born in
1847, published in 1869, "Political Economy for Be-
inners"; in 1872 Mr. and Mrs. Fawcett published
a joint volumne of essays and lectures on political
and economical subjects; in 1874 Mrs. Fawcett
published a little volume cf. "Tales in Political
economy." Mrs. Fawcett has taken an active part
in edvocating the exttnsion of the Parliamentary
suffrage to those women who fulfil the qualifications
of property and residence d manded of the male
elector.