The Archive · 1928

COMMONS' TRIBUTE OF FORMER PREMIER

Adjournment as Mark of Respect to Earl of Oxford and Asquith: Simple Burial in Berkshire: Mr, Lloyd George's Glowing Eulogy London, Feb. 16, 'The House of Commons' adjourn-at four o'clock this afternoon as {tribute of respect to the late Earl of Oxford and Asquith, The Prime Minister, Mr, Baldwin, moving the adjournment, pald a tribute. to. the late ex-Premier, whom he described as "perhaps one of the greatest Parliamentarians of the last century—a fine intellect, scholar, a speaker unrivalled in his own generation; a man of unassailable integrity and unwavering loyalty and magnanimity."

Mr, Ramsay MacDonald, Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. T. P, 0'Connor, the "Father of the House of Commons," also paid tributes to the dead statesman, The late Earl will be buried at, All Saints Church at Sutton Courtney, Berkshire, on February 20, Only relations and friends will b present.—Reuter, Recognition in Both Houses London, Feb, 16.

The leaders of the parties in both Houses of Parliament to-day paid their tributes to the deceased statesman,

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