Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1888-11-17 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

DEATH OF LORD LUCAN.  After a few weeks' illness Field-Marshal the Earl eit Lucan died at his house in South-street, Park. lane, on Saturday afternoon. At the last anniversary Bel/Alava dinner it was stated that Lord Lucan was too unwell to attend ; he had tint so on an the previous anniversaries. The Right Hon, George Charles Bingham, Earl of Lucan, and Baron Lucan of Osetlebar, in county Mayo, in the Peerage of Ireland, of which he had been a representative in the Parliament of the United Kingdom since 1840, and a baronet of Nova Scotia (creation 1632), was the elder of the two sans of Richard, second earl, by the Lady Elizabeth Aellassyse, third daughter of Henry, second and last Karl of Fauconberg. He was born April 17th. 1800. His lordship was educated at Westminster School, and entered the army as ensign in the fltb Foot in August, 1816. In 1828, on the war breaking out between Turkey and Russia, he served on the staff of the Russian Army in Bulgaria under General Diebitach. From 1828 till 1830 he was one of the representatives of county Mayo in the House of Commons in the Conservative interest. On the outbreak of war in the East in 1854 he was appointed to the command of a cavalry division in the Crimea, with the rank of lieutenant-general. He commanded the cavalry division at the battles of the Alma, Balaklava—where he was wounded—and Inkerman. For his services during the campaign he was tpade a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath and a Commander of the Legion of Honour, and received the Order of the Medjidie of the first Class. He wee appointed colonel of the Ist Life Guards in 1865, and was nominated a Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in 1869. The late earl was Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county Mayo, and was appointed Gold Stick -in - Waiting in 1888. He succeeded to the earldom on the death of his father in June, 1839. He married June 29, 1829, the Lady Anne Brudenell, seventh daughter of Robert, sixth Earl of Cardigan, and by her leaves issue two sons, the eldest of whom, Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Bingham, who was born in 1830 and served as aide. de-camp to his father in 1854, succeeds him.  Dinizulu is still at iarge. He has eseftped from tho Transvaal commando, and is again in Zululand at MaWhine's kraal.  A company is being formed by a group of large Russian capitalists for the construction of docks in the principal ports of the Russian empire and of shipbuilding yards. It is proposed that the capital shall be 100 million roubles. Miss Florence Toole, the only remaining child of Mr. J. L. Toole, died on Monday afternoon in Edinburgh from typhoid fever. Miss Toole, who was about 22 years of ags, I.ad been ill for about three weeks. During the day Mr. Toole received a large number at 'Alegeams of condolence. An Inquest has been held at the Canehill Asylum, Croydon, touching the death of William Brook, an inmate, who committed suicide on the railway, while engaged in picking stones. He escsped from the attendant, and ran into the highway; he then threw himself under a waggon with a load of two tons, and the rear wheel passed over his shoulder. jHe jumped up, remarking, " That . has not killed me," and ran on to the line. Facing an express train, he was cut to pieces.