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SOCIETY AND PERSONAL. Mr Harcourt, late M.P. for Oxfordshire, fother of Sir William Harcourt, died on Satur- ay at Nuneham Park, Abingdon. His only son heir, Mr Aubrey Harcourt, is absent with vi0td Sheffield's crickets in Australia. Sir W. court was with his elder brother when he axed. Lord Salisbury has made a reduction of 20 per bnt. in the rents of his agricultural tenants for e half-year which was due at Michaelmas. We are sorry to state that the Right Hon. the arl of Lisburne has been suffering from an Jjtack of influenza, but is now receiving strength. was the cause that prevented his lordship r°m presiding at the grand Conservative Club l?hcert held on Wednesday last at the Assembly °oms, Aberystwyth. The announcement was eceived with great regret. Mr T. J. Wadding- pa, of Hafod, most efficiently acted as his 'ordship's substitute. We regret to announce the death of the Duke of Devonshire, father of the marquis of Harting- j0Qi which took place at Holker flail, his Grace's ^ncashire seat, on Monday evening, after a illness. The Duke was 83 years of age. *"8 Grace is succeeded by the Marquis of *lartington, who now enters the Upper House, thereby causing a vacancy in the Parliamentary Representation of the Rossendale Division of •Lancashire. The late Duke was Lord-Lieutanant Custos Rotulorum of the county of «erby, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (where he was Second Wrangler in 1827), and was patron of forty-one livings. lIe had been in feeble health for a considerable time, and was taken suddenly worse on the 4th instant, when the Marquis of Hartington gave up a political engagement at Bacup, and ,t once proceeded to Holker Hall, where he Remained until the Duke breathed his last. "r Beardsley was unremitting in his attention uPon the aged patient from the moment his Condition became critical. ) "Men of the Times" states Sir William Cavendish, K.G., F.R.S., D.C.L., Duke of ■ Vevonshire, grandson of the late Earl of Bur- lngton, was born April 27, 1808, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A. as second wrangler and Smith's prizeman in 1829, in which year he was Returned as one of the members for the University of Cambridge. Rejected by this Constituency in 1830, Lord Cavendish was Returned for Maldon, and represented North Derbyshire from 1832 till he succeeded to the title of Earl Burlington in May, who was Chancellor of the University of London from 1836 to 1856, succeeded his cousin in the dukedom, January 17, 1858. His grace was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Derbyshire in 1858, and succeeded the late Prince Albert as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge in 1862. The duke was a great patron of the fine Qrts and of literature. Sir Thomas Brooks, Bart., of Crawshaw Hall, president of the Rossendale Liberal Unionist Association, has consented to contest the Rossen- dale Division in the Unionist interest, rendered Vacant by the elevation of the Marquess of Partington to the House of Lords. The Liberal candidate is Mr John Henry Maden, of &acup, son of the late Mr Henry Maden. £ Sir Love Jones-Parry, Bart., of Madryn, formerly M.P. for Carnarvon Boroughs, died on Friday last. He was the representative of a Very old Welsh family. Captain Jones-Parry, of Tyllwyd, Cardigan- shire, haa been summoned to the funeral, we be- lieve, as an Executor. # Newcastle Emlyn friends will rejoice at the appointment of Mr E. Keri Evans to the chair of Philosophy at Bangor University College. Mr Keri Evans has attained the highest honours at Glasgow University, and also at Leipsic. His success is well-merited.

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