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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1931.
DEATH OF LORD STAMFORDHAM.
A PILLAR OF THE KING'S HOUSE.
THIRTY YEARS PRIVATE SECRETARY.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENUY.]
LONDON, March 31, The death occurred today at St. James's Palace of Baron Stamford hom (Lt. Col. the Rt. Hon. Arthur John Bigge), Private Secretary to H.M., the King since 1910, in his eighty-second year.
made the Queen's Equerry in ordi- nary and Assistant Private Score- Lary, For the next fourteen years served a long apprenticeship un- der the late Sir Henry Ponsonby, Her Majesty's principal Secretary, a man of imposing wisdom and supernatural tact and experience. When Sir Henry died in 1995, Colonel Arthur Bigge succeeded him almost as a matter of course. cap-six years later the Queen died, and he joined the present King in the. position he has held ever since.
What exactly were Lord Stam fordhani's powers, duties and in- fluence?
As a young man decensed took part in the Zulu War, being a
in in the Royal Artillery. For almost half a contury one man has served the House and Family of Windsor, and the British Empire, in positions of trust and privacy close to the reigning sovo- reign. This veteran in the servies of King and country was Lord Stamfordham, Private Secretary and confidential political adviser King George and former Private Heeretary to Queen Victoria.
Lord Stanfordham was 82 years old in June, and during 1930 com pleted bis 5ftieth year in royal servico.
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A Personal Servant. An accurate answer, aut afraid, could only be given by himself and he will never give it.. He was not technically a servant of state, but à Torsonal attendant of the King's. His office indeed was created only Sat. by an accident. When, in 1803, poor blind old King George III. retired to Windsor, Sir Hubert Mon. Taylor was appointed his private Tes
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As Captain Arthur Bigge, of the Royal Artillery, Lord Stamford- ham's first personal service to the sovereign was to bring home from the Zulu war the body of the Prince
I abould say that Lord Stamford- Imperial. That was in 1878. The next year he received his firsthan's principal task is to uphold appointment as a Groom-in-Wait the ancient doctrine that "the King ing to Queen Victoria, and shortly ran do no wrong" in its modern after became assistant secretary to form, "the King cannot make a
mistake." As His Majesty's most FILL YOUR FOUNTAIN PEN Her Majesty, since then he had been continuously associated with the trusted and familar counsellor he must see that he is never at fault sovereign,
in his judgment of the smallest trifle, he must know at all times how to deal with any circumstances wisely, constitutionally, and with dignity.
Lord Stamfordham maintained" the military hearing gained as an artillery officer."
Britain. By his wise decision;
and statesmanlike warda, the King has used them to strengthen the prestige and respect for the crown twenty-fold. Lord Stamfordham was the "an behind the throne, who more than any influence, in fluenced and guided the King's path. A sovereign ultimately mast think and decide for himself, but Incky is he who can rely always or such a right hand as Lord Stam- frihan
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tremendous crises hate menneed the dressed with a touch of old world throne-the War, the Irish settle. precision in their grooming, Onement, the arrival of the Labour sight, bearded and grizzled, as Party pa the second political reading a document. The other, taller, white-headed, venerable and wise, bends over his companion, ex plaining a point of view in clear, preciso, tones. The map sitting at the desk looks up at him and smiles, a hundred tiny wrinkles creasing round his jolly, twinkling eyes.
They are King George and his secretary, Lord Stamfordham, get ting on with the morning's work. Lord Stamfordham, the King's most trusted counsellor and friend, first became soeretary to the. King, He was nonrer the King in thought Clien Prince of Wales, 30 and understanding than any man years ago, and his mind seems, to alive. They had grown grey to have grown more elastic and mogether, working together, and they dern with each year of that long had arrived at a perfect mutual
So far understanding. service.
Meeting him casually, you would humanly possible they had over.
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He managed his large depart. mont with an efficiency which mont business houses would envy. The complications of the King's duties make a large securolariat necessary at Buckingham Palace, and their. offices are the last word in modern practice. Lord Stamfordhom brought the first typow iter inta Buckingham Palace; and followed up this act, by installing there the most up-to-date methods of office routine.
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A Vicar's Son. When Arthur Bigge, the son of Northern Ireland viear, entered the Royal Military Academy at Wool wich, he would have thought you insane had you suggested that would one day find himself a pass. King's secretary, and a figure at European importance. He had then no ambition but to distinguish bimasif as an artillery officer. Chance brought him into the life of courte and palaces, and his charm rather than his ability wou him his
He loved efficiency: he wAB A Erst court appointment.
When the Prince Imperial, son of stickler for detail. Bloveliness in Napoleon III, sometima Emperor work, in dress, in attention to the of the French, and of the Emprers smallest detail brought those beavy Eugenie, want to fight the Zulus, brows together in a forbidding Captain Arthur Bigge, R.A., was frown. He looked to the most- one of the officers chosen to accom- minute of things himself, and be reason why other folk rany him. As everyone knows, His saw no Imperial Highness died in Africa, should not do so too. He spared End Captain Bigge came to Balhimself no pains, so why should moral, where the Empress was stay- the rest of the world be less exnot- ing with Queen Victorin, to telling
He had his rewards. He could her of her son's last campaign.
Queen Victoria, who liked to sur. look back over many years; during round herself with pleasant young which, unseen, unknown by most soldiers, was attracted by his per) of his follow-mon, he wielded sonality, and offered him a post si a power greater than many poli one of her Grooms in Waiting. tlcians who have filled-the-Albert- Captain Bigge did not know what Hall and the newspapers with their to make of the offer, and laid his eloquence. Self-effacement dilemma before a friend.
more than his duty; it was his pleasure. He had worked; he had advised, he had acted behind the scenes for nearly half-century: and he know that the crown rested more securely on his master's brow
"If you have the sense I credit you with anid the latter, you will thank your lucky stars for the change. If you are a fool you will stay in the army.
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So I had to take the post, than on that of any of his predeces plained Lord Stamfordham, when The told the story, "If only to vin- dicate my intelligence, with
dur national life, he had influenced
He proved as discreet as he was countless decisions, each of which charming, as able as he was populiad, modified the history of the lar; and within a year he way British Empire
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