19 AUGUST 1922, Page 3

We much regret to record the death last week of

Lord Heneage. He was eighty-two, but he had retained his powers unimpaired to the end. The last of his many vigorous letters to the Spectator appeared not so long ago in our columns. Lord Heneage was by nature a moderate Liberal and, when he was Member for Grimsby, he sat for a few brief months in Mr. Gladstone's third Cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy. But he could not follow Mr. Gladstone in his sudden conversion to Home Rule, and resigned office with Mr. Chamberlain. He remained to the last an independent Liberal Unionist. He received his peerage in 1896 at the recommendation of Lord Salisbury, but he exercised the right of individual judgment, on Tariff Reform and other issues, as the true Englishman always does.