London, Feb. 23.
The death has occurred, at. the! Jaze of 85, of the Rt. Hon. Richard Knight Causton, 1st Baron Southwark. Lord Southwark, who was made a Privy Councillor in 1905, was elevated to the Peerage in 1910. He was a Lord of the 'Treasury, 1892-05; one of the [Liberal Whips in' the House Commons, 1892-1905; and Postmaster-General 1905-10. He was ALP. (as Mr. R. K. Causton) for Colchester from 1880 to 1885_and for W. Southwark from 1888 to 1910.
There is no heir to the peerage.—Reuter.
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