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The Marquis of Lansdowne, the new Governor-General of Canada, 1883. 'The Marquis of Lorne, with Princess Louise, being about to leave Canada, at the termination of his Excellency's period of service as Governor-General, he is succeeded by the Marquis of Lansdowne, whose Portrait appears in this week's publication. The Right Hon. Henry Charles Keith Petty Fitzmaurice, Marquis of Lansdowne, is the elder son of Henry, fourth Marquis, K.G., by marriage with the Hon. Emily Jane, in her own right Baroness Nairne, and was born in 1845. He was educated at Eton, and at Balliol College, Oxford, and was formerly a Captain in the Wilts Yeomanry Cavalry. He succeeded his father in the Marquisate and other titles in 1866. Lord Lansdowne was a Lord of the Treasury from 1868 to 1872, and Under-Secretary for War from the latter date till 1874. He was appointed Under-Secretary for India when Mr. Gladstone took office again in 1880, but retired two months afterwards, owing to a disagreement with the Irish policy of the Government. He is a magistrate for Wiltshire and also for the county of Kerry. His Lordship married, in 1869, Lady Maud Evelyn Hamilton, youngest daughter of the Duke of Abercorn'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.