39467 859 The London Gazette Registered as a Newspaper For Table of Contents see last page * * TUESDAY, 12 FEBRUARY, 1952 At the Court at St. James's,.the 8th day of At the Court at St. James's, the 8th day of February, 1952. February, 1952. '.'.'( PRESENT. PRESENT, • The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT in Council. MAJESTY. Her Majesty, being this day present in His Royal Highness The Duke of Council, was pleased to make the following Gloucester. Declaration: — His Royal Highness The Duke of "Your Royal Highnesses, My Lords, Ladies Edinburgh. and Gentlemen: Lord Chancellor. By the sudden death of my dear Father, Archbishop of York. I am called to assume the duties and respon- Prime Minister. sibilities of Sovereignty. Lord President. At this time of deep sorrow, it is a pro- Mr. Speaker of the House of found consolation to me to be assured of Commons. the sympathy which you and all my Peoples Lord Privy Seal. feel towards me, to my Mother, and my Earl Marshal. Sister, and to the other members of my Master of the Horse. • Family. My Father was our revered and Duke of Buccleuch and beloved Head, as he was of the wider Family Queensberry. of his subjects; .the grief which his loss Lord Chamberlain. brings is shared among us all. Earl of Shaftesbury. My heait is: too full for me to say more to Earl of Home. you to-day than that I, shall always work, as Earl Stanhope. my Father did throughout his Reign, to up- Earl De La Warr. hold constitutional government and to ad- Earl of Drogheda, vance the happiness and prosperity of my Earl of Bessborough. Peoples, spread as they are all the world Earl Winterton. over. I know that in my resolve to follow Earl Howe. his shining example of service and devotion, Earl of Listowel. I shall be inspired by. the loyalty and affec- Earl of Selborne. tion of those whose Queen I have been Earl of Halifax. called • to be, and by the counsel of then: Earl of Cowrie. elected Parliaments. I pray that God will Earl Mountbatten of Burma. help me to -discharge worthily this heavy Earl Jowitt. task that has been laid upon me so early in Viscount Mersey. my life." Viscount Swinton. '. Whereupon the Lords of the Council made Viscount Samuel.. ' it then: humble request to Her Majesty that Viscount Davidson: Her Majesty's Most Gracious Declaration to 'Viscount Weir. Their Lordships might be made public, which Viscount Simon. Her Majesty was pleased to Order accordingly. •' •' . Viscount Stansgate: F. /. Fernau. Viscount Templewoodf.