Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-23
Campbell
BANNERMAN IS DEAD,
Distinguished British Leader SuCCumbS
to Heart DiseaSe---A Valued Friend
Of ireland and Esteemed by ALL

London April 22.-Sir Henry Camp
bell Zimmerman, former British pre-
mier, died at 9.l5 o'clock this morning
at his official residence in Downing
street. The end was peaceful.
The cause of Sir Henry's death is Of
fcia!ly given as heart failure.
The death of Sir Henry after a lin
| gerins illness, of more than two
months, did not come as a surprise, as
| the public had been expecting the an
| nouncemcnt of the end at any hOul
during the past fortnight. The news
came in the form of the following bull
| letin issued at 1890 o'clock this morn
| ing:
"Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman
passed peacefully away at 9.15 O'Clock
this morning The cause of his death
was heart failure.
(Signed) "R. W. BURNETT"
In the death chamber when the cX-
premier breathed his last We're his
niece, Mrs. Campbell, who acts as Sir
Henry's hostess since the death of
Lady Campbell Bannerman little
more than a year ago; DR.. Burnet, who
was Mr. Campbell Bannerman's per-
sOnal physician, and Sir Henry'S but
ler
The ex-premier had been unconscious
NEST of the time for the last two or
three days and his sinking was gradu-
al. A few hours before his death tele-
grams were dispatched to King Ed
ward, who with Queen Alexandra is
visiting the Danish royal family at Co
pcnha sen, the Prince of Wales and the
cabinet ministers. Immediately news
paper reporters were keeping vigil be-
fore the house of the dying statesman,
but the only news handed to them was
in the form of a bulletin more than an
hour after his death. A few minutes
thereafter. a crowd assembled in
Downing street. but all persons We're
barred from approaching the house by
q GORDON Of police from Scotland yard,
nearby.
There will be a funeral service in
Westminster Abbey at noon on April
y attended by representatives of King
Edward and Queen Alexandra diplo-
mats and members of Parliament, etc.
and the final nterment will occur the
beside the body of Sir Henry's Wife.
Messages of sympathy were arriving
all day long from every part of the
world. Among the many callers was
Whitelaw Reid. the American ambas-
sador to the Court of St. James.
Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman re-
signed the office of prime minister on
\,N,.iI ~, III, ma 70,
| King Edward, who was at BiarritZ.
Herbert H. Asquith. chancellor of the
eX-cheQuer and the then acting
premier. as his successor Mr. Asquith
was summoned at once by the King
and received the appointment few
days later.
Sir Henry was born Sept 7, 1886 He
was the youngest son OF the late Sir
James Campbell Of Stracathro, For
| farshirc, some time lord provost of
Glasgow. He assumed the additional
name under tie will of his maternal
uncle, the late Henry Bannerman, of
Hunton Court, Kent, who bequeathed
| to him Il large estate. He attended
Glasgow University and Trinity Col
lege, Cambridge. In 1860 he married
Charlotte, daughter of Major General
Sir Charles Bruce. She died in 1866 and
since sustaining that loss Sir Henry 5
decline in health may be dated.
| For nearly 40 years he sat for the
same seat the Stirling Burghs-and
his record of office goes back to 1871
when he was financial secretary to the
war office, which post he held q second
time. from 1850 to 1882. During the next
| fy.,, tn no AL
niralty and in 1884 lie succeeded ST,
George Trevelyan as Irish secretary
| filling that Office ably and unobtru-
sively until the fall Of the Gladstone
ministry in 1855. in spite of the fact
that the Irishmen described him as
1.-The Scotch sandbag." In the shor,
government OF 1856 he was secretary
| for war, and to that post he returned
under the last Liberal government. lie
was chosen leader of the Liberal op-
position in succession to Sir William
Harcourt in February, 1899.
In 1892, a passage of words took place
between him and Lord Rosebary ovel
the doctrine of the "cean slate" il
regard to the Irish question and Other
| public questions, and the Liberia
League was formed Sir Henry agar
received the solid support of the Lib
| eral party in the House in 1908. 1870
and 1905 On the resignation Of tn,
\ Balfour administration in December
1905, Sir Henry was summoned by the
King and formed Liberal govern
ment, himself becoming first lord of thu
treasury and prime minister. The gen
Il eral election followed and Sir Henry
H Campbell Bannerman entered the new
\ Parliament with the greatest majority
ever given to a British premier.
1t was prophesIed at that time thai
the Liberal government was IN power
\ for at least Its full term under Tho
Il Septennial Act. but with his passing
the forces which he held together a:
q party appear also to be approaching
dissolution. unless by some strong ac
the new premier. Mr.. Asquith, car
weld and hold together the various
factions that are striving for one par
ticular object In the House Of Com