Paddington, who had held a number of posts In Conservative governents, has perished in a yachting] disaster off the coast of Cornwall.
He had chartered the yacht Is-Jander for holiday cruise aboard with him were one of his Searle, of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve; Surgeon Captain A. Brailey, Medical affeer of H. Mi. President; Captain Glazebrook, the skippers and two deck hands, gale was raging and night was falling when the yacht was driven on to the rocks in Lanlivet Bay, near Polperro.
The Fowey lifeboat went out, but ould not approach the vessel. A Jife line was fired over the yacht. Two men aboard were seen" des-berately hanging on to the life line, fut it gave away in the teriffic seas. Then a tidal wave caught the vessel and altered its position, flinging it against the rocks, One man was seen to dive from the yacht and dogin to swim to the shore, but he disappeared under the water.
The Fowey lifeboat strove for two hours to get near the yacht, but the heavy seas and dangerous proved too formidable.
'The yacht was pounded to des-auction and all' aboard were drowned, Commodore King was one of the most versatile men in the Conservative Party and was regarded as destined to hold a high place in some fature Conservative administration, "He was 53 and still your politicians go, He had been Junior Lord of the Treasury, Fi cal Secretary to the War Office and, in the last Conservative administra: tion, Department. Before he entered upon his parliamentary career he took part in the defence of Antwerp, goryed in the Gallipoli campaign and with the Royal Naval
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