Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1903 — HERBERT PASSES AWAY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HERBERT PASSES AWAY.

British Ambassador to United States Dies in Switzerland. Sir Michael Herbert, the British ambassador to the United States, died Wednesday at Davos Platz, Switzerland, of

quick consumption. It was known the ambassador had rapid consumption from the time of his appointment t o Washington. He had been gradually growing worse since his arrival at the Swiss resort, but his death was sudden and unexpected. Sir Michael Herbert began his ca-

reer as 'a diplomat in 1879 as an attache of the British embassy in Paris. He was sent to Washington in 1888 to be in charge of the British embassy. Then he held diplomatic poets at The Hague, Constantinople and Rome respectively. In 1898 he returned to Paris as secretary of the British embassy with the rank of minister plenipotentiary. In the French capital he was very popular and twice in the absence of Sir E. Monson had charge of the embassy. His American experience proved very valuable to the British government in 1897, when he undertook the duties of British agent during the arbitration on the Venezuelan boundary question. Upon the death of Lord Panncefote in 1892, Sir Michael was called from the Paris post to he ambassador to the United States. Sir Michael Herbert was married to Miss Lelia Wilson, daughter of Richard Wilson, a New York millionaire. Lady Herbert is related to the Vanderbilt, Ogdenfi Goelet and Astor families.

M. H. BERBERT.