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Buckingham (GEORGE VILLIERS DUKE OF son)

GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF, son of the preceding, born at Westminster in 1627; studied at Trinity College, Cambridge; served in the Royal army under Rupert and then went abroad. In 1648 he returned to England, was with Charles II. in Scotland and at the battle of Worcester , and afterward served as a volunteer in the French army in Flanders. He then returned to England, and in 1657 married turned to England, and in 1657 married Restoration he became master of the cabal (1667-1673). In 1666 he engaged. in a conspiracy, and in 1676 was committed to the Tower for a contempt by order of the House of Lords; but on each occasion he recovered the King's favor. On the death of Charles he retired to his seat in Yorkshire, where he died in 1688.

WILLIAM AL- BUCKINGHAM, FRED, an American statesman, born in Lebanon, Conn., May 28, 1804; was for nine years Governor of Connecticut for his zeal in furnishing troops in the Civil War; and was United States Senator from 1869 till his death. He was a patron of Yale College. He died in Norpatron of Yale College. He died in Nor- BUCKINGHAM PALACE