The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-13
HAD BEEN ILL MANY MONTHS
DEATH OF HIS son, LORD AVA, IN
SOUTH AFRICA WAS A SHOCK.
His Connection with Wrecked CorpOr-
ations Also fastened the End-A
New American Peerless.

LONDON, req. l-.-lne OF Jul
FERN and Ava, former Governor General OF
Canada, and who had filled many high
diplomatic posts in the English service. died
at 6:25 o'clock this morning at his resi-
dence at Clandeboye, County Down, Ire
land. He passed away peacefully after
night Of Inconsistencies.
Lord Dufferin never wholly recovered
from the shock which he experienced as
the result OF the death OF his son. Lord
Ava. in South Africa. and the failure OF
the London and Globe Finance Corporation
and kindred concerns. Of which he was
director, completed his breakdown. With
the exception of his youngest son. Lord
Hamilton Temple Blackwood. who is with
his regiment. the Ninth Lancers. in South
Africa, all the family was present at the
deathbed. He had been in i'll health long
time
Lord Clandeboye. the eldest son. who is a
clerk in the Foreign Office. and who mar
ried Florence. daughter of John II. Davis.
of New York succeeds to the title, and
another American joins the ranks of the
peeresses.
The funeral of Lord Dufferin will be pri-
vate. His remains will be buried In the
graveyard at Clandeboye Feb. Is
paltry pension of e170O yearly. which
necessitated his mixing up in city COM
panies. The St James Gazette says: 1T
is not a pleasant reflection that If the
nation had acted with justice toward such
man as IL has now lost IL might have
been spared the humiliation which he
brought upon himself in consequence OF
the circumstance i'm which he was left in
the last days of his brilliant career"
Frederick Temple Blackwood. otherwise
the marques OF Dufferin and Ava. was born
at Florence on June q, 1876. succeeded TO
the peerage on his fathers death in 1871,
was educated at Christ Church College.
oxford, but took no honors or degree. leav-
ing the university early; entered public
life as a lOrd-n-w waiting In Lord J. Rus
sells first administration. He was at
tached in 1855 to Lord j. Russell's mission
to Vienna, ana was sent by Lord Palmers-
ton as British commissioner to Syria I'm
1860. He was under secretary OF state for
India from 1864 TO 1866, and in the War Of
fee subsequently for a few months. Under
Mr.. Gladstones administration, which COM
menced in 1865, Lord Dufferin was chan
cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster for four
years and then assumed the direction or
the government of Canada, a post which
he held until 1873 He was subsequently
ambassador at St Petersburg from 1873
nople in April 1881. The following year
he went on a special mission TO Egypt
Following the Egyptian mission, which
ended corelatively with his ambassadors
ship at Constantinople, in 1884, he was made
Governor General of India, serving with
marked success until 1883, when he was
appointed 10 the embassy at Rome; am
bassador to the French republic in 1901,
retired in 1896. He was warden of the
cinque ports and high constable of Dover
Castle, 1915: lord rector of st. Andrews
University, 1913 His publications were
numerous. including Letters from High
Latitudes" 1856: Irish Emigration and
Land Tenure in Ireland 1867 and many
pamphlets, speeches and addresses on the
Irish question. the Indian frontier question
and other matters OF political interest
Lord Dufferin not only was one OF Ire
lands great men, but one OF the great men
of the age The Irish seldom boosted OF
him. but he pure bred OF the
best Irish blood on both sides Of his house.
On one side, his fathers. his ancestors
generations, and on his mothers side the
marquis came from pretty good Celtic
stock. His great-grandfather was the Rt-
Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Dufferin,
In spite OF his many and high-sounding
titles. was a great man. one of the shrewd-
est and foremost diplomats OF his time. To
run over his record In the service OF Britain
as an ambassador and agent would be TO
write much of the history OF England and
its empire for the best part OF half a cen
fury Lord Dufferin had ambitions outside
of his career as a diplomat. He ever de-
sired to be a literary man, but, like all
men highly capable I'm one direction. he
conspicuously failed in all others. He held
some of the most important posts I'm the
service OF his government, and conducted
several remarkable negotiations-and all
cleverly-among them the settlement Of
British relations with Egypt. He left the
country 10 assume the highest post In
the British government next that OF the
Queen-viceroy OF India. Lady Dufferin, a
famous Irish woman herself. was Miss
Hamilton. of Killylea gh. They were mar
ried in 1862. Lady Duferin was the author
of several books. His title, as given In
the peerage books. was marques. not
marquis" as generally used