London, June 18.
Sir Donald Maclean, President of ithe Board of Education, died at hi frame to-day at the age of 57.
The deceased, who was born in 1864, was formerly leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons and President of the Board of [Education in the present Government, He was one of the Liberals who "agreed to differ" over the ques ion of protection. He joined the National' Government asa. Free Trade Liberal and retained to the lend an almost fierce dislike of the trend of "policy away from. free rade; but, like other Free Trade Literals, he subordinated his views! to the needs of the situation, Donald Maclean first entered Parliament in 1906 as Liberal mem-ver for Bath, which place he represented. until 1910, when be successfully contested the Peebles division. He represented that constituency for 12 years and then was absent from ithe' House until 1920 when he obtained the seat for North Cornwall.
'Sir "Herbert "Samuel, the Liberal leader, be played a con-Jwhich Jed to the formation of the spicuous part' in. the negotiations
[National Government last August.
His Cabinet colleagues at Lau-anne, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Sit John Simon and Mr. Walter. Rund man, were much affected by th Mews of his death and immediately dispatched a message of condolence to Lady Maclean.
In. the House of Commons, the" Minister of Agriculture, Sir JJohn Gilmour, said that the news for Sir Donald Maclean's death had feaused his. Cabinet colleagues and {members of Parliament the deepest sorrow.
Sir Donald's love of the Empire as an instrument for the service of the arid fe well known and wae, tric ingly iMlusteated in a speech he de-Tivered to the children of the London City School at Guildhall on Empire Day. He said that those great Empires "which had gone lived for themselves, and their idea of Empire was not to see how much they feould give, but to see how much they could get out of it, Our conception of the Empire was not for self, but for service. 3 He would remind them (he said) what a splendid instrament the Brit ism Empire was now, could be, and would be if we remembered that it twas a great and mighty instrument Yor. the service of the world—Revter and. Special.
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