| Show Lord Iddeslelgft Bead lasooy January 12Lo Iddeileig is dead Thus far but meagre particulars are known regarding his t death It has been ascertained however that he was taken suddenly ill this afternoon while in conference with Lord Salisbury and that death ensued shortly after It has now been ascertained that lei deslagh waS not takeli with his falal illness while engaged in conversation with Salisbury but that he fainted while ascending the stairs of Salisburys residence in Downing Street He was taken into the prime ministers rqoin and almost immediately expired LOJ > DOK January 12Sir Mortimer i Granville Lord Iddealtighs physician has issued bulletin in relation to his lordships death In it he says Lord Iddesleigh for many years past has suffered wth cardiac affections which While not placing his life in immediate peril rendered the prospect of its sudden sud-den termination only too possible He died of syncope The melancholy event although startling to those around him has not been unforseen by his immediate friends and it has been anticipated by his medical attendants Sir James Ferguson t Under secretary for Foreign Affairs in an interview said Lord Iddesleigh a moment before leaving leav-ing the foreign office spoke to me very calmly about quitting office He expressed ex-pressed the hope that our separation would not be permanent Henry M Stanley the explorer was waiting to see him about the Emin Bey expedition and Iddesleigh asked me to see Stanley and make another appointment for later in the evening Lord Iddesleigh was looking well in fact better than usual He conversed with me pleasantly pleas-antly and when we parted he was in good sprits The body of Iddesleigh lies in Salis burys room The Prime Minister arrived ar-rived shortly after Iddesleigh was taken ill and while the doctors were trying to rally him He is greatly affected by the death of his former minister MantersSalisburys private secretary says ths moment Lord Iddealeigh came into the anteroom he sank down upon a chair I was in tHe next room hearing groans I went into the anteroom and lifted him to a sofa Doctors were in immediate attendance and remedies were applied but Lord Iddesleigh never spoke He died twenty minutes after hewas taken ill His son Henry Stafford Staf-ford Northcote was sent for butdid not reach his father until ten minutes after all was over He left later for Lynes in Exeter the family seat to tell his mother of her husbands death |
