GLEICHEN, LORD EDWARD (Albert Edward Wilfred) (1863-1937 ), British major-general, was born on Jan. 15, 1863, eldest son of Admiral Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg and Laura, daughter of Admiral Sir George Seymour. He was educated at Charterhouse, and passed through Sandhurst into the Grenadier Guards in 188i. He saw service in Egypt (1884-85), was attached first to the War Office intelligence department and then to special missions in the Sudan and in Abyssinia. He served in the South African War, where he won the D.S.O. Later he was military attaché at Berlin and at Washington. During the World War he commanded the 37th Division (1915-16), and then returned to the intelligence department of the War Office. He retired with the rank of major-general in 1919. He was the author of several books on the various missions in which he was em ployed. He died in London, Dec. 14,