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1843 — 1919. \^^A 



(Editor Eut. Mo. Mag. 1893-1912.) 



Lord Walsingham died on December 3rd. He had contracted a 

 chill before going to Cambridge to the installation of Mr. Balfour as 

 Chancellor of the University ; further exposure resulted in pleurisy, and 

 he passed away in a nursing home at Hampstead — heart-failui'e being 

 the actual cause of death. He was buried at Merton, December 7th. 



Thomas de Grey, sixth Baron Walsingham, of Walsingham, 

 Norfolk, was the eldest son of Thomas, fifth Lord Walsingham, and 

 the only child by his first wife, Augusta Selina, eldest daughter 

 and co-heiress of Sir Robert Frankland- Russell, Bart. He was born 

 at Stanhope Street, Mayfair, July 29th, 1843, and baptised in the little 

 parish church of St. Peter, in Merton Park, on the south side of the 

 churchyard of which, facing the ancient Mere of Merton and the Hall 

 of his fathers, surrounded by the old woods of Merton in which he had 

 so often used his net or gun he now lies at rest. 



Lord Walsingham succeeded to the title and estates on the death of 

 his father December 31st, 1870. He was married three times : first, 

 .in 1877, to Augusta Selina Elizabeth ("Leila") Duchesse de Santo 

 Teodoro (only daughter of Captain William Locke, of Norbury, and 

 widow of Ernest Lord Burghersh) ; secondly, in 1909, to Marion 

 Gwytherne- Williams (daughter of the late Thomas Rhys Withers) ; 

 thirdl}^ in 1914, to Agnes Baird (daughter of the late Frederick 

 Shand Hemming, and widow of Richard Dawson). He is succeeded by 

 his half-brother, the Hon. John Augustus de Grey. 



At the age of 9 (1852) Lord Walsingham was sent to a private school, 

 kept by the Rev. Goldney, at Southborough, near Tunln-idge Wells, where 

 he remained four years ; thence to Eton, residing in Mr. Birch's House, 

 1856-GO (with his tutor, the Rev. Augustus Frederick Birch, he main- 

 tained a life-long friendship). At Eton he was Captain of the Cricket 

 Eleven and also played in the Football Eleven. At the conclusion of his 

 school-days Lord Walsingham went to Cambridge, in 18G0 (Trinit}^ 

 College, Hat Fellow-Commoner; B.A. 1865 ; M.A. 1870 ; LL.D. 1891). 

 He played in the University Cricket Eleven, also in Gentlemen v. Players, 

 and was a member of the M.C.C. and I Zingari ; always retaining a great 

 interest in cricket he encouraged the village clubs on his estate and 

 often practised or played with them. As a career the Army was 

 chosen, but imputiunce at the delay ni obtaining a- comniisslou in the 



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