Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-02 00:00:00

DEATH OF THE EAril, OF MINTO, G.C.B.

. We have to ,announce, the death of the Right Mil: the
-Earl of Minto, who expired at 12.30 a,m: on Sunday, :A his
residence in Eaton-square, London, after • a Protracted and,
lingering illness. His. lordship's lengthened indisposition
had in some degree prepared the members of the family for
the mournful event: .A decided change for the worse took.
place on Friday last, and the earl continued rapidly to
when, at the hour above-natned, he breathed his last, ap-
parently Without the least painin the pleSence of. Viscount
Melgund, Lady' John Russell, Lady Dunfermline, and "the
Hon. George Elliot.

,• The deceased, Gilbert Elliotlfurray 'Kuynmond,: Earl of
"Mint°, Viscount Me!guild and Bareii of Mato,: county-Box
burgh, in the peerage. of the United King,dbm, also a baronet '
of Nova Scotia, was eldest ion of Gilbert, first earl, bx his
wife'AnnU7-MariA, eldbst7daughter Of:t ir George 4rayand,
Bart., and was born. NOV. 16, 1782. His lordship married
August 28, 1806, Mary, eldest daughter of Mr. Patrick
ISrydone,- by whom (who, died in 1853) 'the late- peer leaves
surviving issue Lady Dunfermline, Viscount Alelgund,
(now Earl), .Lady John *well, the, Hon.; Henry George,
.Captain, the Hon. Chart e Lady: Elizabeth B milly, 'the
Hon.- Georme, Lady Charlotte Portal, and the gon..Gil-
bert, Brigade. The. late peer sneceeded to the
earldora,on the death 'of his father, 21St JUne, 1811.. Tie was
.educated', at the- University of Edinburgh, at which,seat of
learning,
.the Marquis. of Lansdowne, Lord John Russell,.
Lord Pahnersto-n, Lord Glenft and other eminent: Whig
educated, and,. were his contemporaries.
cession to the-earldom, he had a Sea the
1- --ing '

Previous to,his

so.
~cert elected' member for'Ash-
burton in 180&. On the completion of the late Earl Giey's
Government, he was made a.privr. councillor ; and in Atwust,.
1832, appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipo-
tentiary to the.. .Court of. Berlin, where he continued until
the autumn of 13.4. In September; 1835, he accepted offi*e
in Viscount Melba-urn P' cronnki? _ _ r.•

ximiralty, m' in the rae of 'Lord Auckland
- -

_ -vvernonGeneral of India, and presided over the
1 affairs of the nation until the-break-up of the Ministry
,tember,. 18'41.... On Lord Johir Russell succeeding to
ae• helm of public- affairs in July 1846, the Earl of Minto
..,:ritered the Cabinet- as Lord Privy Ski: It was during the
autumn of 1847 that the noble earl' went on a special mis-
sion- to Switzerland; the 'Courts of Prorence. .Turin, Rome,
an& Naples ; and also to inform the HomeboTernment on
the unsettled state- of Italy. ,Whiti' on, :his- mission, the
re Yoktion of. February* 1848, broke -out- in Paris, and the
obieet of his. missionto Naples was not attained, owing to
the-convulsions which followed the revolution in France:
He returned from ItnEyin. May, 184% to resume- his duties
in the. Cabinet, and!: as, Lord Privy. Seal. remained till the
resignation of Lord John Russell. as First Lorelei the Trea-
sury in February, 13-62, since which period: his lordship had
but little interfered ill political mattersi. beyond giving sup-
port to, his politidal 'filen& by his votes in Me House of
Lord.O.

Si yep

Et the lamented demise of his lordshiNthe family honours
and estates devolve on his -eldest soni..Viscount
.Alelgund„.
born., 19th March, 1814, and married' in 1844 to ',Emma
Eleanor; only daughter .and heiress of the late, General Sir
Thema% Hislop, G.CfR. The 'present, ,earl, graduated at
Trinity-College,-CambrlAge: He was: first' returned to Par-
liament as member for Hythei at the general election in
1837—,. In 1841 he was.= Imsnccessfurcandidatelor Roches-
ter,,hut in 1847 he again obtained a seat in the House of
Commons as representative for Greenock, and was.member
for- Clackinannan in the fate Parliament:- At the last general
election he declined to again come ferward, mainly on ao
count,ot the precarious health Of -his father.

The-tote earl waS a: fellow of theß;;;l7.Society, an elder
brother of the Trinity House, and a deputy lieutenant. of
Rexburghshire. 1834 he, was geminated a Knight
Grind Crass (civil division) of the Order of the Bath.
The house of Minto is a younger branch of the. Eiliot4 of
Strobe;. N. 8., -from whence General Lord'Heithiloid 'sprang.
Sit Gilbert. Elliot, grandson: of Gilbert Elliot, eiStobS, was'
&lord of session in Scotland. and made a baronet in 1700.
On his appointment to the bench •he took the title. of.itlinto,
from an estate he had purchased- in Roxburghshire.
His son, Sir Gilbert'. was also brought tip in the 'law,
and attained the elevated rank of • Lord Sitstibe Clerk.
That learned. baronet's son, the third, Sir Gilbert; :was :dish
tinguished as a public character in thermos° of Commons,
and • for his literary abilities. His son, Sir. Gilbert, who
succeeded as fourth baronet, also attain%) a Moll position
in political life, being an active' member of Parliament, and
was at one time &candidate for the Speaker's Glair. On.
the acquisition of Corsica he was made by 'the home
government governor of that islaud. In 1797 he wasp
elevated to the peerage by being created Baron Alinto. His
lordship went in 1799 as ambassador to Vienna, and was sub-
sequently appointed Governor'-General of India, the affairs
of which presidency he admitristered with 'ability and dia.
cretion. During his governorship of Bengal the Ticeess"fttl
military and naval expedition to Java, under General Sir
Samuel .Auchmuty, was planned; and carried out, which led
to the surrender of the city of Batavia and, the capture of
the strongly-entrenched camp of Cornelia when the whole
of the enemy's army of 10,000 diseiplinedtroops were either
killed, takenl, or dispersed. For his eminent public Services
he was, in 1813, further raised to the peerage by being
created an earl ; but he did not enjoy the honour long, for
he,died in June the succeeding, year.

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DEATH OF, THE EARL OF HARBORODGII

• We have to record the demise of the Earl of Harborough,
who died on -Tuesday last at Stapleford, the ancient seat of
the Sherard family, ;war Melton Mowbray. The. late peer
was the only son of Philip, fifth earl, by Eleanor, youngest
daughter of the late Hon.. Colonel John Monekton, on whose
death, in -December, 1807, the deceased•succeeded as sixth
Earl and Baron of . Harborough, "county Leicester,. in the
peerage of Great Britain, and also ,as Baron Sherard,
county Leitrim, in that of Ireland... Tho deceased nobleman
married, in 1843,. Miss Temple, daughter of Mr. Ed. Dalby
Temple, but does not leave issue.. ,The,earldom and barony
in the English: peerage by his death becomes- extinct, but
the Irish barony of.Sherard, created in 1627, descends:to
Mr. Philip Castel' Sherard, of, Glattdu„ Mats, as. male
'representative of George; the third son of the. first Baron
Sherard.• !The first!peer, according 'to Dodd. and Others,
.was descended from. the Lord of Bromhall, Cheshire, *nip.
Stephen. Mr. Shirley, 31•,.P., in his new work, "Jsloble
and Gentlemen, of England," says, !' The pedigree of this
family does not appear to be proved beyond William. Sherard,
who died in 1304. His .ancestorS, however, are said to
have been of Thornton, in Cheshire, in' the 3th century:
In 1402 the family., were established into Stapleford, by
marriage with the heiress •of Hawberk.", • • „, •

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IMPHOVEMENT IN GENTLEMEN'S HAT& --Many letters
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MR. JOHN A. SIMPSON, the. active , partner. of :Act
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any other motive than this-4hat they really
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'Now, with these tWe boats I have nothing to do; but I
iike fair play ;' and when I take my wife and family for a
change of air and a little recreation, I must claim a right to
censure. those who, either by carelessness or INTENT, risk
their safety, or even cause them the slightest alarm. ,
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I am, Sir, yours,,
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