14 FEBRUARY 1931, Page 2

• Lord Bessborough is to be the new Governor-General of

Canada. The position was offered first to the Duke of Abercorn, who felt that it was his duty to 'complete his second term of office in Northern' Ireland. Lord Bessborough, who is fifty years old, was at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, and, as Lord Duncannon, sat in the House of Commons from January, 1910, to the following December, and - again from 1918 to ,1920, when he succeeded his father. Although- a Member of Parliament throughout the War he spent nearly. all the time in France and Gallipoli. After the War he concerned himself with business, and he has become greatly respected in various positions of trust and responsibility. *