We greatly regret to record the death of Mr. Auberon
Herbert, which took place on Monday in his sixty-ninth year. The third son of the third Earl of Carnarvon, he was suc- cessively an Oxford tutor, a Lieutenant in the 7th Hussars, and a Radical Member of Parliament. In the House of Commons he allied himself with Sir Charles Dilke in a form of Republicanism, and in the famous debate in 1872 on the Civil List his speech made him one of the most unpopular men in the country. He did not sit long in the House, but he took much part in public movements, as in his championship of Mr. Bradlaugh. The rest of his life was spent in preaching his favourite doctrine of Individualism, which he carried to a point where it almost became the negation of govern- ment. His party, as Lord Rosebery said of the Duke of Argyll, was compact and portable, consisting chiefly of himself; but his wide knowledge and the charm and sincerity of his character attracted to him a large circle of friends. He was a brilliant and original writer, and on many occasions the Spectator has profited by his contributions. A strange mixture of High Toryism and Radicalism, of sagacity and extravagance, he was one of the most clearly marked figures of his day, and in a time when the type is crushing out the individual we have to regret the loss of so picturesque and interesting a personality.
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