3-077-710 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Earl Sydney, Lord Steward of the Queen's Household, 1890. 'The Right Hon. John Robert Townshend, Earl, Viscount, and Baron Sydney, Lord Lieutenant of Kent, Colonel of the Kent Artillery Militia and Captain of Deal Castle, Knight of the Order of Leopold of Belgium, died on Feb. 14. aged eighty-five...He married...Lady Emily Caroline Paget, daughter of the first Marquis of Anglesey, K.G., but had no issue. His Lordship held the office of Lord Chamberlain from 1859 to 1866, from 1868 to 1885, and from February to July 1886. In 1874 he was promoted to the Earldom of Sydney - a title which now becomes extinct. The Townshends, Lords Sydney, were a younger branch of the family of the Marquises Townshends. Lord Sydney was associated with the Court for a lengthened period. So far back as the time of George IV. he was a Groom-in-Waiting, and in the next reign a Lord-in-Waiting. He held subsequently the same appointment to the Queen from 1841 to 1846, and Lord Steward 1880 to 1885. The following is the published expression of her Majesty's deep concern at the death of Lord Sydney, "who had been for so many years attached to her person and had held high and important offices in her Household, and for whom her Majesty had the highest regard".' From "Illustrated London News", 1890.