14 JUNE 1913, Page 3

We regret to have to record the death of Mr.

George Wyndham, which occurred at Paris on Sunday after a few days' illness. Mr. Wyndham, who was only forty-nine, served with distinction in the Guards before entering Parliament in 1889. He was Mr. Balfour's private secretary in the troubled years of 1887 to 1892, held the Under-Secretaryship for War from 1898 to 1900, and was Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1900 to 1905. It was in that post that he earned his most abiding title to remembrance as the author of the Act dealing with land purchase, with which his name will always be associated. Mr. Wyndham was a man of great versatility and charm, and his premature death removes a brilliant and accomplished figure from the political arena.