. A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen. n, and attended by his secretaries and othergovernment officials. On the 13th of November hehad ascended on foot one of the passes of the Hima-layas; but the unwonted fatigue was followed by asevere illness, which threw him upon a sick-bed at asecluded hamlet called the Dhurumsala. From thatbed he was never more to rise, and his last hours arethus described in Clx. Bombay Times:—Up to the19th his lordship was quite conscious, fully aware ofhis state, and perfectly composed. He made everyearthly preparation for his departure. He made hiswill; gav
. A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen. n, and attended by his secretaries and othergovernment officials. On the 13th of November hehad ascended on foot one of the passes of the Hima-layas; but the unwonted fatigue was followed by asevere illness, which threw him upon a sick-bed at asecluded hamlet called the Dhurumsala. From thatbed he was never more to rise, and his last hours arethus described in Clx. Bombay Times:—Up to the19th his lordship was quite conscious, fully aware ofhis state, and perfectly composed. He made everyearthly preparation for his departure. He made hiswill; gave injunctions that he should be buried atDhurumsalah; directed Colonel Strachey to designa tomb for his remains; approved of the design whensubmitted to him; dictated the words of the telegramsthat he ordered to be despatched to England, con-veying the expression of his duty to his queen, andthe request that her majesty would appoint his suc-cessor; gave instructions respecting the return of hisfamily to England; took leave of his family, and. :C))iS;©ir; ajjCj! LORD 1TE,ATH?TBU)^oraarNAL in rap. LORD ELIBANK GEORGE AUGUSTUS ELLIOT. 527 waited till his end came. His death, the sameauthority adds, is a great loss to the British empire:to British India, at such a time as the present, it isa loss which seems irreparable. The character ofLord Elgin as a statesman and as governor-generalof India is thus briefly but justly summed up in theTimes newspaper, when announcing his decease:—He has fallen in harness; but he has had the satis-faction of seeing India grow in prosperity under hisrule, and hold out expectations which for years pastwe have not dared to entertain. All through hislife he was successful in his undertakings, and he wassuccessful to the last. He owed that success not somuch to great genius as to good sense, to social tact,and to a love of hard, steady work. The Earl of Elgin was twice married. His firstwife, Elizabeth Mary, daughter of C. L. Gummingof Rose-isle,
Size: 1374px × 1820px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, bookpublisherlondo, bookyear1872
