Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-04-01 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

DEATH OF THE DUKE OF BEDFORD. The Duke of Bedford died suddenly at 7 o'clock on Thursday night at his residence in Cheshamplace, London. His death has cast a painful gloom over the ducal household, following so closely as it does upon the death of the former Duke. The deceased Duke, it appears, had been unwell for some time past, but a fatal termination was not expected. His Grace was moving about the house on Thursday, and between 6 and 7 o'clock in the evening proceeded to his room, where he was found shortly after the latter hour by the Duchess quite dead and fully dressed. Dr. Maclagan states that the immediate cause of the Duke of Bedford's death was fatty degeneration of the heart, and that a certificate to this effect would be issued in the ordinary course. Dr. Maclagan, who had been attending the late Enke on and off for some time vast, said his Grace's death was not unexpected by him. George William Travers Sackville Russell, was the son of the ninth Duke and Lady Elizabeth, daughter of the fifth Earl De La Warr. He was born in 1852, and married, in 1876, Lady Adeline Marie, daughter of the third and last Earl Somers. In 1891 he succeeded to the title on the death of his lather. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford (graduated B.A. 1874), and was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple. He sat in Parliament for Bedfordshire as a Liberal from 1875 to 1885. He was an alderman for Bedfordshire, and filled the office of High Sheriff in 1889. He was chairman and alderman of the Bedfordshire County Council, and patron of 25 livings. The deceased is succeeded in the title by his brother, Lord Herbrand Arthur Russell, who was born in 1858, and married in 088 Mary, daughter of Archdeacon Tribe, of Lahore. the new Duke has a son, four years old, who now oecomes Marquis of Tavistock. The tragic circumstances under which the father of the deceased died will be remembered. In January, 1891, it was announced that the Duke of Bedford had died suddenly from congestion of the lungs, but two days later it became known that an inquest had been held upon the body, and that the greatest secrecy was observed with the object of concealing the real cause of death. Eventually it became known that the Duke had committed suicide by shooting himself with a pistol.  According to a telegram received at Trieste from Constantinople, H.M.S. Cockatrice, a paddle steamer belonging to the Mediterranean Squadron, has collided off that port with the steamer Panhelion. The former sprang a leak and had a narrow escape from foundering. She WA4 taken to the Turkish docks for repairs.  Sir George Dibbs, the Premier of New South Wales, has resigned his seat for the Murrumbidffee electorate in consequence of pecuniary difficulties, which will necessitate the administration of his affairs in the Bankruptcy Court. He proposes to seek re-election, and in the meantime will retain the Premiership. During the interim Mr. Barton, the AttOrney-General, wall conduct the business 01 the Ociveinment.  Canon Knox-Little, prt aching at St Paul's Cathedral, said : "Let them look up to the Cross, and they would find religion to be the real power of life. Some men said that Christianity was played out, but they were wrong. It was possessed of a power still, a power which would never die. Let them live for eternity, live for faith, live fer goodness, live for truth, live for duty; their lives might look a failure, but they would have the triumplui of the Croft."