The death of Lord Hambleden ends the labours of a
life given to voluntary service. From his boyhood, when he rowed in the Eton Eight, he was a hard worker. He sat in Parliament for the Strand Division, the old seat of his greatly respected father, but gave up politics and the business of Messrs. W. H. Smith more and more for work chiefly concerned with hospitals. The present King's College Hospital owes an incalculable debt to his work and munificence, and he was a leader in such organizations as the British Hospitals Association and its London Regional Committee, and in the Hospitals Saving Association. He was always a strong and generous Churchman. India just now can ill spare Sir Alexander Muddiman, who died on Sunday in the prime of life. As Secretary of the Legislative Department of Govern- ment he was in the innermost councils since 1915, and upon him fell the task of drafting a vast amount of the legislation and regulation due to the Montagu- Chelmsford Report. He became President of the new Council of State, a position of great importance and deli- cacy, and in 1924 became Home Member of Government and Leader of the Assembly. He had lately been appointed Governor of the United Provinces.
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