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Death Of the Ch.nc. ll,r O. E.sl..d.

The celebrated juris. and writer. the Right
Honorable Jno Campbell, Lord High Chancei.
and Ireland, died very suddenly, In London,
on the 23d of June, from the rupture of q blood
vessel.
He was the seventh and youngest child Of
the Rev. George Campbell, minis ter of Cupar,
and magdaien, dang nter OF John Haliy berton.
ESD, the head OF e family posses ing large
landed estates in Fcrfarshire, Scotland, and
was born at Oupaz st. Andrews, In the conn
~ Of Fife, Scotland. on the 18th Of September.
11Si.
His linsase gas noble. and could be traced
on his fathers eide to the Ducai house of Ar
gyle.
sity, commencing at an early age under the
tutorship of the Rev. G. Hill, Of st. Mary's
college. at the sSe CT twenty Ia had a.
ready taken the degree OF Master OF Arts, and
the off1ce CT the celebrated Dir. Tidd, the ma
JoT1ty OF v hnse pills have attained dfetiac-
tioa. During the period of HE probation,
Campbell WAS employed as writer of theat-
rical eritiquss in the Londcn Morning
Chronicie, then the organ Of the great Ohas.
Fox and his adhererts, and made his mark as
a writer of ability In walk entirely at var;
ance with the dry studies no was assiduous-
iy pursuing.
TO these efforts no was largely indebted for
his means of Subsistence and success; Gni
sustained by untiring indust try, was called 70
the bar in the Michaeimas term OF 1905.
From that moment ne began to rise, ALTHOUGH b
checked in his career by many drawbacke.
His four volumes Of Nsi Prius Reports gave
him reputation, and upon Lord Eidoa's death
ha succeeded to tho position OF Counsel 10 the
Grown.
In 1880, he entered the House of Commons,
where he was a freq uen t end admired speaker
on tho Whig side in politics. In 1892 he was
made Solicitor General and then Attorney
General, succeeding Sir ". Horne, under the
Whig Ministry.
In ls&l he YVES made Lord Chancellor Of
ireland, on the resignation OF Lord PiEnket,
and with it received peerage, with the title
Scotland. His party-the Whigs-xOing out
OF power the same year, he devoted himself
to literary iabors, having resigned his Chan
cel,orship il September. 1t was dnriDg the
period that eiapsei until 1876 that he prepared
q considerable portion OF mis- "Lives OF the
Lord Obanceilors AID Keepers OF the Great
Seal" In 1886, when Sir obeIt Peel came
into power, Lord Campbell WAS made Chan
celicr OF the Dnchy OF Lancaster, and in 1850
became the successor Of Lord Dsnsnsn, es
Lord Cher Justice OF the UouEt of king's
Bench.
When Paimersson succeeded the Derby Min
istry, Lord Campbell v-a5 at length, made
Lord High Chancellor OF the Realm, and held
that exalted office with great distinction IN
til the day OF his deaf tn, having then passed
the ripe old age Of eighty years.
Ee died fall OF honors, leaving o proud title
and n noble reputation, 81 q, man Of kindly
disposition ana great .iateiiset, 10 those who
inherit his uaIne and his estates.
Lord Campbell married, in 1871, Mary Eliza
beth Scarlett. daughter OF Lord Abinger and
was the father OF seven chiid-en, three sons
and four daughters. One o. his sous repra-
sentad Gam bridge in Parliament t, and another
serVe.i England IN Bengal, in The army cf the
late East India Company.
Sir Richard Bethel, who has been raised 20
the wooiseck as the successor of Lord Camp.
bell, is a native OF Bradford, and was born in
lso0. Graduating at Oxterd, he adopted law
as his profession, and was called to ths Bar
in 1928, and made Queens Counsel in 1910. In
1852, when the honor of Knis shthccd was con-
ferred upon Sir Richard, he was made Soiici p.
tor General in the Ministry of Lord Aber-
deem, position he held until the tranefer OF
Sir Alexander Oockorru 20 the Bench, when
he became Attorney General. Sir Richard
Bethel occupied, by general consent, the posi-.
ton o. leader ct the EnGl.sh Bar.