Please wait. Contacting image service... loading

Article text

A PEER DEAD.
Marquis of Gueensberry.
' LOOTJOX, Angnsfc 2.
The death is announced : of the ninth
Marquis of Queensberry, who was horn in
1868 and succeeded his father in 1900. He
was twice married. He is succeeded hy his
eldest son, Viscount Drumlanrig, who'was
born in '1895 and who married in 1917. the
daughter of a miil owner. The late marquis,
who had been touring South Africa .in con
nection with mining ventures, died- in a
nursing home.
His. lordship' was twice married, first to
a daughter of the* Rev. T. Walters, Vicar
of Boyton., Cornwall (who died in ^1917,
and by whom he had two sons and one
daughter), and second to a daughter of Mr.
Richard Bickel, of ..Cardiff. / The -Mar
quis was a midshipman in the Royal Navy,
and afterwards i. lieutenant in the King^s
Own' Scottish Borderers.
$