The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-29
EARL GREY, ONE
OF BRlTAIu'S BIC
STATESMEN, DEAD
Member of Parliament and
Former Governor General,
of Canada.

l<OnQOn, Aug. zS-7-Earl 6Ieys
former acknowledgement of Canada,
died at o'clock this morning at
Howfck House, Northumberland,
after a long sickness. The funeral
will be held at Howick on Saturday,
when memorial service will be held
in London.
Lord Strathcoma described Earl
Grey as "a statesman and a philan-
thropist in the best sense" His ac-
tive career comprised not only the ad
ministration of the government of
Rhodesia and representation of the
British government as Governor-Gen-
eral of Canada, but industrial and
financial operations IN the develop
ment of South Africa. One of the
most noted movements to which he
gave his support and in which he was
a leading spirit was the Public House
Trust Company of England, an enter
prise designed to suppIant the ordi-
nary saloons for the sale of intoxicat-
ing liquor by the establishment Of
well conducted public houses and to
discourage the use of intoxicants
substitution of tea and coffee.
Earl Grey was an. intimate friend
of the late Joseph H. Choate, Ameri-
can ambassador to Great Britain,
often visited the United States, called
upon Presidents Roosevelt andsTaft at
Washington. and declared that he was
lover OF America. This sentiment
he gave as his reason for restoring to
the United States a picture of Ben
jamin Franklin which had been in
the possession Of his family since Earl
Greys great grandfather, Major-Gen-
eral Charles Grey, was quartered in
F'ranklill's house in Philadelphia as an
| officer Of General HoWe's staff. during
the Revolutionary War. The restora-
ton of the pichlre was announced by
Earl Grey at banquet rendered to
him in New York while he was Gov
ernor- General of Canada. In making
the announcement he said he believed
there were, higher laws than the laws
of possession. ~
Born November %, 1852, Alfred
| Henry George. the fourth Earl Grey,
was educated at Trinity College. Cam
bridge. He married in 1877 Alice Hol-
ford, of Westonbirt, England. Two
daughters, Lady Evelyn Grey and
Lady Sybi1 Grey were the result of
/ the union.
By profession Earl Grey was law
/ yer. He was a member of Parlia-
ment from Northumberland for six
years beginning in 1880. On the
death of his uncle, General Sir Charles
Grey, in 1894, he succeeded to the
title and took his seat in the House
of Lords For two generations prev
iously the Ear1s Grey had been promi-
ihent in the political, affairs of the
British Empire His grandfather had
been Prime Minister of England and
=.
Becoming associated with the late
Cecil Rhodes, Earl Grey entered en-
Enthusiastically into plans for the de-
| velopment of South Africa, was pro-
moter OF the South African Chartered
Co., was concerned in the Jamesor
raid, afnassed a fortune and in 1891
became administrator of Rhodesis
where he proved to be a capable ant
constructive administrator. He wat
one of the executors of Cecil Rhodes
will and inf1eutia1 in the direction Of
Rhodes sch olarships at Oxford.
Succeeding his brother-in-law
Lord Mimic. card Grey was appointed
governor general of Canada in 1901
and occupied that post for six years
His administration was described as 6
quiet but uniform success. He wa.
Y strong advocate OF imperial fedora
ton and urged Canadians to share
the burden of England's defense.
Although born an aristocrat. Ear
Grey was very democratic in his sym
pathies. This found chief expression
in his almost lifelong activity as {
social reformer, in his efforts to re
form the saloons of England and ii
the establishment Of a cooperative
partnership system on his estates il
Northumberland. He was not an idl'
bearer of a great name, put was I'm
bued with restless energy and a spiri
of enthusiasm in all his enterprises
constituting a multitude of interests
i Cecil Rhodes found him full of pas