The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-01-09
Obituary.
THE EARL OF HADDINGToN, X. T.,


Died at noon on December !, at Tynnghame House,
Haddingtonshire, England. He was born june q,
1880 He sat in the House of Commons from 1918
to 1885, representative for Rochester. On the for
nation of the late Sir Robert Pees first administration,
in December, 1884, his Lordship was appointed Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, which he held up to break up
of the government. When Sir Robert Peel again took
Office in the autumn of 1871 his Lordshp selected for
the post First lord Admiralty with seat IN the
Cabinet He held that Office up to January, 1916, when
he made Lord Prvy Seal and retained that position
until the final dissolution of the right honorable Baronet
government His Lordship, although opposed to the Re-
form bill and other liberal measures of the governments
of Earl Grey and vcount Melbourne adopted the enlarged
and the commercial reforms which followed. Since the
retirement of Sir Robert Peel and party from Office the
late earl has rarely inerered in politics. In 1914 his
1ordshp made privy councillor and in 1858 he
made knight of the Oder of the Thistle. He here
dtary keeper of Hollywood Palace the Elder Breth
or the Trinity House. trustee Of the British and Hun
terean Museums and Deputy Lieutenant Of Haddingon-
shire.
SIR RANDOLPH RorTH K.C.B
Died in London, on the 9th Of November. He was the
Of Mr.. Richard Routh who for many years
Chief Justice, of Newfoundland Sir Randolph born
at Poole Dorsetshire in 1887, and married 1915 (at
Pars) Marie Josephine, granddaughter of Colonel Lami
Mere Secretary General OF the Gardes de Corps of Louis
XVI On her oeah he married at Quebec Marie Louise,
daughter of Judge Tachercau and niece of the French
Bishop Of Canada. He educated at Eton College lie
served for thirty years in Jamaica, at Wacheren
under the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsuar aud at
Waterloo He also served in the Mediterranean the West
Indies and Canada, where he became for some time
a member of the Executive Council While holding this
his X for his superintendent of the relief fund
ing the Irish famine. In 1876 he appointed Commits
sary General and this office he retained to the time of
his death.
The death of Count Boulay (de la Meurthe) Senator
and formerly Vice President of the republic, took place
Pirs already announced the night of the oath utmo
The deceased was born in 1884, and was consequently in
his Glst year In 1920 he Inscribed his advocate
Mt the Cour Royae of Paris. Being elected years
after Deputy for Iunevle he formed part of the mode
rate opposition. After the revolution of 1880 he was
again elected deputy, and sat in the Chamber constantly
up s4s. During The time of his occupying seat in the
Legs be frequently proposed that permission should
be granted to the Bonaparte family to return to France
When Prince Louis Napoleon elected President of the
republic, having to send to the National Assembly a list
of three candidates for the place Of Vice President Of the
republic he placed that Of the deceased at the head of the
list. After the I'd Of December, 1851, Count Bouay was
named member Of the Consultative Commission and raised
to the dignity of Senator As colonel Of the Eleventh e
gion Of the National Guard he fought at the head of his
civic companions in arms during the instruction of June
The deceased wrote several pamphlets agricultural
matters and on elementary instruction, and in 1852 pub
shed history Of the cholera.
RICHARD BRIGHT, NJ. d.
Onc OF the most eminent physicians in Europe died in
London on the 10th Of December in his SEVENTEEN year
In 1914 he visited Holland and the chief cities of Germany
and arrived at Brussels about fortnight after the battle
Of Waterloo and found much matter OF professional nte
rest DR.. Bright in December 1915, was admitted H.
centiae OF the Royal College of Physicans, and was
shory after elected assistant physician to the London
Fever Hospital In 1920 he confined his public duties en-
rey to Guys Hospital Of which he had elected as
astant phy nean and continued ~ discharge the
that office till 1924 when, the retirement of Dr. Laird
he succeeded him as physician to that institution For
some sessions he ecured alone and afterwards associated
with him Dr. Addison In 1882 he made "A Fellow Of
the Royal College of Physicians, and the following year
appointed Gulstonan lecturer and in 1886 chosen
one the censors the late Doctors Paris and Cham.
bcrs and Sir II. Holland being his colleagues The late
Dr. Bright had contributed largely the advancement of
medical science by his works FAR too numerous
enumerated in this brief notice. His works on drop
steal affections have universal reputation, and have
been translated into all the languages of Europe.