Lord Londesborough, whose attack of influenza was followed by pneumonia, died on Thursday afternoon last week at his house in Grosvenor Square. He had reached the age of sixty-six, but despite the short-sightedness that necessitated the wearing of blue spectacles, he was a man of active habits, a constant driver in the Park, and an interested visitor to his estates of over fifty thousands acres in the North. He had a large hand in making the annual Scarborough Cricket Festival a success; and the London stage had no more interested patron.

Lord Londesborough, who once sat for Scarborough in Parliament, and who married a daughter of the seventh Duke of Beaufort, succeeded his father, the first Baron Londesborough, in 1860, and was advanced to an Earldom in 1887.

He held various Volunteer commands, and was Vice-Admiral of the Yorkshire coast.

His son, Viscount Raincliffe, who succeeds him, was born in 1864, is married to a sister of the Earl of Westmorland, and has an heir, born in 1892.

The remains of the Earl were interred on Tuesday. According to his Lordship's wish, the coffin was borne by fishermen.

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