CONNAUGHT, AND STRATHEARN, DUKE OF, Arthur William Patrick Albert, English prince, sixth child and third son of Queen Victoria: b. BuckinKhant palace, I May 1850. He entered the Military Academy at Woolwich as a cadet in 1866; lieutenant, Royal Engineers, 1868; Royal Ar tillery 1869; captain, Rifle Brigade, 1871. On attaining his majority in 1871, Parliament voted him a grant of $75,000 a year, and an addition of $50,000 was voted on his marriage in 1879 to Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia. She died in London 14 March 1917 at the age of 57. Three children were born of the union, Princess Margaret (Crown Princess of Sweden), Prince Arthur and the popular Princess Patricia, in whose honor a Canadian regiment mobilized for the war was named °Princess Pat's Own)) The Duke of Connaught led an active life of 50 years' public service. In 1870 he served in Canada, was assistant adjutant-general at Gib raltar till 1876, when he was appointed persohal aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria. He com manded the Guards' 13rigade in the Egyptian campaign of 1882, and in 1886 was sent to India to assume command of the.Bombay army.
He returned home in 1890, commanded at Portsmouth for three years, and then succeeded Sir Evelyn Wood as commander-in-chief at Aldershot. From 1900 to 1904 he commanded the forces in Ireland and was created field marshal iu 1902. In 1901 the Duke was elected Grand Master of Freemasons in England in succession to his brother, the late King Edward. On the reorganization of the War Office in 1904, he became the first inspector-general of the forces and president of the selection board. In 1908 he was appointed to the newly-created post of commander-in-chief and high commis sioner in the Mediterranean. In 1910 the Duke opened the first Parliament under the Union of South Africa, in Cape Town, and in 1911 became governor-general of Canada for five years. Since his return to England in October 1916 he has taken an active part in national organization. With the sole exception of King George, no member of any English royal family has seen more of the world and especiatkof the British Empire, than the Duke of Connaught