Lord Wolverhampton, better known as Sir Henry Fowler, who had
been in failing health for some time past, died last Saturday in his eighty-first year. Entering politics in middle life, he attained Cabinet rank in the Liberal Adminis- tration of 1892-5, and proved himself a strong and capable administrator at the India Office. Interest attaches to his career in that he was the first solicitor, and one of the first Nonconformists, to be admitted to the Cabinet. He did not frequently intervene in debate, but he spoke with admirable lucidity, weight, and moderation, and his memorable speech on the Indian cotton duties in 1895 was one of the few delivered in our time which have turned votes. He was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1905 to 1908, when he retired; but his share in recent Liberal policy amounted to no more than a passive acquiescence in methods which he himself had never practised and never openly approved..
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