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Died. Alastair Arthur, 28, Duke of Connaught & Strathearn, great-grandson of Queen Victoria; in Government House, Ottawa, Canada. A member of a Scottish regiment who had served two years with the British Army in Egypt, he was the last of his line; the title ended with...
Died. H.R.H. Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught and of Strathearn, and Earl of Sussex, 91, last surviving son of Queen Victoria; in Bagshot Park, England. Godson of the Duke of Wellington, in his youth he was called "The Soldier Prince," entered Woolwich Military Academy at 16, pursued an active military career for more than 40 years. He was Governor General of Canada from 1911 to 1916. He rejected three thrones during his lifetime: Saxe-Coburg & Gotha (1899), Czecho-Slovakia (1915), Hungary...
Birthday. Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught and qf Strathearn, Earl of Sussex, only surviving son of Queen Victoria of England; great uncle of King George VI: 87; at Bournemouth, England...
...Aged 83, the King's hoary uncle H. R. H. Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and of Strathearn. kept a public engagement by opening in thoroughgoing fashion the new $5,000,000 headquarters of English freemasonry in London as the Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge...
Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, is the third son of Queen Victoria. A shy, sensitive man, he has been less in the public eye than any other Prince of the British Blood Royal. His career has been for the most part spent in the Army. At the age of 20 he served in Canada in suppressing the Fenian raid and later saw active service in Egypt. Rising by easy royal stages, he finally achieved the not unmerited rank of a Field Marshall...