The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-31 00:00:00

DEATH OP THE EARL OF DURHAM

The following communication, announcing the death of the
Earl of Durham, has been received frbm Cowes, in the Isle
of Wight :--_

COWES, JULY 28.—From the hour of his lordship's arrival
at Cowes there appeared to be no hopes of his recovery, and
he has been daily getting weaker, but his medical attendants
considered he was not in immediate danger—that the acute
disease had changed into the chronic; indeed, he had no
medical man in attendance for some days, and his amiable
lady and family had, been lulled into a false security. His
lordship had not eaten anything for a week past, excepting a
little fruit, and had taken only beef tea. On Sunday and
Monday he did not rise oven to have his hod made ; his lady
was his sole and constant attendant night and day ; no one
even went into his room. His lordship had taken a great
fancy to the town, and to the last was anxious to purchase or
take on a lease oefourteen dr twenty years a large house for
his family, and Mr. Moore had applied to the Earl of Belfast,
Sir Thomas Tancred, Mrs. Goodwin, and others, for that
purpose, his lordship considering himself better, and that he
would recover. At five o'clock this morning he was taken
worse, and Mr. C. Day was for the first time called in ; he
attended immediately, and pronounced him dying—that he
could not live five hours. At ten minutes past nine his lord-
ship expired. It was a terrible and unexpected blow to his
lady and children, for if ever a husband was doated on by an
amiable and affectionate wife it was John George Lambton,
Earl of Durham. Lord Lambton was sent for to his father
a few minutes before he died. His lordship's daughters were
also with Lady Durham. The whole family are in the great-
est distress.

John Lambton, Earl of Durham, Viscount Lambton, and
Baron Durham, of the city of Durham, in the peerage of the
United Kingdom, was born 12th April, 1792, and married
first, the Ist of January, 1812, Miss Harriet Cholmondeley,
who died in May, 1815 ; and secondly, Lady Louisa Eliza-
beth Grey, eldest daughter of the Earl and Countess Grey.
His lordship had issue by his first marriage three daughters,
all of whom arc dead ; and by his second, five children, two
sons, and three daughters. His second son, George Freder-
ick Viscount Lambton, (the Hon. Charles William, his eld-
est son having died at the age of thirteen), succeeds to the
family honours. The ladies Mary, Emily, and Alice Lamb-
ton, were born on the Bth May, 1817, 17th May, 1823, and
16th April, 1831. The deceased earl was the son of the late
William llenry Lambton, Esq., and Lady Anne Villiers,
daughter of the fourth Earl of Jersey. His lordship has two
brothers and one sister—namely, Mr. W. H. Lambton, mar-
ried to Miss C. Ellison in 1824 ; Mrs. Cavendish, lady of the
Hon. Col. Cavendish, equerry to her majesty ; and Mr.
Hedworth Lambton, M.P., married in 1835 to Miss Bushe.
L'he deceased was lord privy seal from 1830 to 1833, and as
most of our readers are aware, was subsequently British am-
bassador at the coda of St, Petersburgh, and lord high com-
missioner of Canada in 1838. He was a privy councillor, a
G. C. 8., and knight of the foreign orders of St. An-
drew, St. Alexander Newsky, St. Anne, and the White
Eagle of Russia ; Leopold of Belgium, and the Saviour of
Greece. In addition to the above, he was high steward of
Hull.