2ND BARON DE REUTER
He was the son of Paul Julius, 1st Baron de Reuter and Ida Maria Magnus. On 05 January 1876, he married Edith Campbell.
FUNERAL: Western Mail 23 April 1915, Page 6
IN DEATH UNDIVIDED
BARON DE REUTER AND WIFE LAID TO REST IN SAME GRAVE
The funeral of Baron and Baroness de Reuter took place on Thursday afternoon, at Kingswood, Surrey, husband and wife being laid to rest in the same grave. The chief mourners were the son, in the uniform of a private in the Sportsmen's Battalion: Mrs. John W. E. J. Douglas, daughter: and Countess Stenbock, the baron's sister. Among a large number of beautiful wreaths the most pathetic was one bearing the inscription: "To my darling wife Edith. In memorium. - Herbert de Reuter."
DEATH: The New York Herald, European Edition, April 20, 1915
After Wife's Death, Baron de Reuter Commits Suicide
LONDON — Baron de Reuter, the death of whose wife on Friday [April 16] at Margery House, Lower Kingswood, Reigate, has already been announced in the HERALD, committed suicide last night by shooting himself with a revolver. Since his wife's death, to whom he had been married for thirty-nine years, the baron had been deeply depressed, and he passed several hours daily beside the body.
Yesterday morning he remained beside the coffin for two hours and the servant heard him crying bitterly. In the afternoon Baron de Reuter was seen strolling about the grounds. Later he was missed, and, the servants becoming anxious, a search was made. The baron was found dead sitting in the summer-house. In his hand was a six-chambered revolver containing one spent cartridge. The other chambers were empty. The bullet had entered the left temple, emerging at the right side of the head and lodging in the wall of the summer-house.
The baron, who was sixty-three years of age, left several letters. One of these was addressed to his gardener and another was addressed ''To the spirit of my dear wife.'' The funeral of Baroness de Reuter which was to have taken place to-day has been postponed so that husband and wife may be buried together. August Julius Clemens Herbert, Baron de Reuter, was the second holder of the title, a British subject, and the managing director of Reuter's Telegram Company.
DEATH: Globe - Monday 19 April 1915
TRAGIC END OF BARON DE REUTER
FOUND SHOT AFTER DEATH OF HIS WIFE
PATHETIC LETTER
ROMANCE OF A GREAT NEWS AGENCY
We regret to learn that Baron Herbert de Reuter, managing director of Reuter's Telegram Company, was yesterday found lying dead at his residence near Reigate. A revolver which had been discharged was found, and there appears to be little or no doubt that Baron de Reuter fell by his own hand.
He was greatly overwrought by the sudden death of his wife, to whom he was devotedly attached, and whose body still lies in the house, awaiting interment, the funeral in fact being fixed for to-day.
Baron de Reuter went for a walk in the grounds the house yesterday, and as he did not return the servants became anxious, and the gardener went in search of him. He reached the summer house ahd there found his master lying dead, with revolver in his hand. The bullet had entered the left temple, come out at the right temple, and lodged the woodwork of the summer-house.
The police were sent for, and they found several letters written by the deceased, one of which was addressed to the gardener, and another to "The spirit of dear wife, Edith". An inquest will be held, and the funeral of the Baroness de Reuter has been postponed in consequence of the tragedy.
Baron Herbert de Reuter was the eldest son of the late Baron Julius do Reuter, the founder of the News Agency which bears his name. He was born on March 10, 1852. He went from Harrow to Balliol College, Oxford, but in spite of the remonstrances of Dr. Jewett, who was then Master of Balliol, refused to stay at Oxford long enough to take his degree.
MUSIC STUDY
His bent was in the direction of science and art, and he decided upon making a professional study of music, in which he had already developed signal talent, and went to study in Paris. He found, however, after a year or more, that his technical achievement was unlikely to reach the level of his hope and first anticipation, and returned to London at the age 22, prepared to comply with his father's wish that be should enter the service of Reuter's Agency.
Forty years ago in January last Herbert de Reuter came to offices in Old Jewry for the first time, and since that date he made the welfare and advancement of the agency his sole care. At first assistant to his father and after a few years as managing director in his place, Baron Herbert devoted the best of his time and energies solidifying the foundations and multiplying the connections of the agency, until it may be said that there is now no part of the civilised world to which Reuter's telegrams do not penetrate or with which Reuter's Agency is not in communication.
"PLUME OF THE BUSINESS."
There are several branches of business in Reuter's Telegram Company, but Baron de Reuter's personal pride was wrapped up in the success of the news agency, which he was won't to describe as the Panache ''—the plume—of the business. For this he worked early and late, sacrificing much of his domestic life and personal ease to official exigencies. His life history was the history of the agency.
For many years he had suffered from a distressing complaint which perpetually robbed him of sleep, and of late he had been much troubled with rheumatism, but bore these things with an admirable stoicism and remained to the end active in mind and cheerful of disposition. But a few weeks ago the members of the London staff, in recognition of the jubilee of the company, presented him with an address of heartfelt acknowledgment of his official life and of his personal qualities.
On Thursday last he was at the office, as usual, until late in the evening, and chatted with his customary geniality with his friend's there. He went home to Palace-gate, Kensington. That night came a message by telephone from his house near Reigate that his wife, who previous to her marriage in 1876 was Miss Edith Campbell, daughter Mr. Robert Campbell, of Buscot Park, Berks, had died suddenly. Since then no word beyond a brief note of poignant grief had been received from him until the fatal news came of the tragic end.
UK GOV WILL: 1915
BARON DE REUTER Herbert of 15 Palace-gate Middlesex died 18 April 1915 at Margery House Reigate Surrey Administration (with Will) London 28 August 1915 to Baron Hubert Julius De Reuter. Effects: £39,442
UK GOV WILL: 1917
BARON DE REUTER Herbert of 15 Palace-gate Kensington Middlesex died 18 April 1915 at Margery House Reigate Surrey Administration (with Will) London 31 January 1917 to Olga Edith Douglas (wife of John Douglas). Effects: £26,509. Former Grant August 1915.
He was the son of Paul Julius, 1st Baron de Reuter and Ida Maria Magnus. On 05 January 1876, he married Edith Campbell.
FUNERAL: Western Mail 23 April 1915, Page 6
IN DEATH UNDIVIDED
BARON DE REUTER AND WIFE LAID TO REST IN SAME GRAVE
The funeral of Baron and Baroness de Reuter took place on Thursday afternoon, at Kingswood, Surrey, husband and wife being laid to rest in the same grave. The chief mourners were the son, in the uniform of a private in the Sportsmen's Battalion: Mrs. John W. E. J. Douglas, daughter: and Countess Stenbock, the baron's sister. Among a large number of beautiful wreaths the most pathetic was one bearing the inscription: "To my darling wife Edith. In memorium. - Herbert de Reuter."
DEATH: The New York Herald, European Edition, April 20, 1915
After Wife's Death, Baron de Reuter Commits Suicide
LONDON — Baron de Reuter, the death of whose wife on Friday [April 16] at Margery House, Lower Kingswood, Reigate, has already been announced in the HERALD, committed suicide last night by shooting himself with a revolver. Since his wife's death, to whom he had been married for thirty-nine years, the baron had been deeply depressed, and he passed several hours daily beside the body.
Yesterday morning he remained beside the coffin for two hours and the servant heard him crying bitterly. In the afternoon Baron de Reuter was seen strolling about the grounds. Later he was missed, and, the servants becoming anxious, a search was made. The baron was found dead sitting in the summer-house. In his hand was a six-chambered revolver containing one spent cartridge. The other chambers were empty. The bullet had entered the left temple, emerging at the right side of the head and lodging in the wall of the summer-house.
The baron, who was sixty-three years of age, left several letters. One of these was addressed to his gardener and another was addressed ''To the spirit of my dear wife.'' The funeral of Baroness de Reuter which was to have taken place to-day has been postponed so that husband and wife may be buried together. August Julius Clemens Herbert, Baron de Reuter, was the second holder of the title, a British subject, and the managing director of Reuter's Telegram Company.
DEATH: Globe - Monday 19 April 1915
TRAGIC END OF BARON DE REUTER
FOUND SHOT AFTER DEATH OF HIS WIFE
PATHETIC LETTER
ROMANCE OF A GREAT NEWS AGENCY
We regret to learn that Baron Herbert de Reuter, managing director of Reuter's Telegram Company, was yesterday found lying dead at his residence near Reigate. A revolver which had been discharged was found, and there appears to be little or no doubt that Baron de Reuter fell by his own hand.
He was greatly overwrought by the sudden death of his wife, to whom he was devotedly attached, and whose body still lies in the house, awaiting interment, the funeral in fact being fixed for to-day.
Baron de Reuter went for a walk in the grounds the house yesterday, and as he did not return the servants became anxious, and the gardener went in search of him. He reached the summer house ahd there found his master lying dead, with revolver in his hand. The bullet had entered the left temple, come out at the right temple, and lodged the woodwork of the summer-house.
The police were sent for, and they found several letters written by the deceased, one of which was addressed to the gardener, and another to "The spirit of dear wife, Edith". An inquest will be held, and the funeral of the Baroness de Reuter has been postponed in consequence of the tragedy.
Baron Herbert de Reuter was the eldest son of the late Baron Julius do Reuter, the founder of the News Agency which bears his name. He was born on March 10, 1852. He went from Harrow to Balliol College, Oxford, but in spite of the remonstrances of Dr. Jewett, who was then Master of Balliol, refused to stay at Oxford long enough to take his degree.
MUSIC STUDY
His bent was in the direction of science and art, and he decided upon making a professional study of music, in which he had already developed signal talent, and went to study in Paris. He found, however, after a year or more, that his technical achievement was unlikely to reach the level of his hope and first anticipation, and returned to London at the age 22, prepared to comply with his father's wish that be should enter the service of Reuter's Agency.
Forty years ago in January last Herbert de Reuter came to offices in Old Jewry for the first time, and since that date he made the welfare and advancement of the agency his sole care. At first assistant to his father and after a few years as managing director in his place, Baron Herbert devoted the best of his time and energies solidifying the foundations and multiplying the connections of the agency, until it may be said that there is now no part of the civilised world to which Reuter's telegrams do not penetrate or with which Reuter's Agency is not in communication.
"PLUME OF THE BUSINESS."
There are several branches of business in Reuter's Telegram Company, but Baron de Reuter's personal pride was wrapped up in the success of the news agency, which he was won't to describe as the Panache ''—the plume—of the business. For this he worked early and late, sacrificing much of his domestic life and personal ease to official exigencies. His life history was the history of the agency.
For many years he had suffered from a distressing complaint which perpetually robbed him of sleep, and of late he had been much troubled with rheumatism, but bore these things with an admirable stoicism and remained to the end active in mind and cheerful of disposition. But a few weeks ago the members of the London staff, in recognition of the jubilee of the company, presented him with an address of heartfelt acknowledgment of his official life and of his personal qualities.
On Thursday last he was at the office, as usual, until late in the evening, and chatted with his customary geniality with his friend's there. He went home to Palace-gate, Kensington. That night came a message by telephone from his house near Reigate that his wife, who previous to her marriage in 1876 was Miss Edith Campbell, daughter Mr. Robert Campbell, of Buscot Park, Berks, had died suddenly. Since then no word beyond a brief note of poignant grief had been received from him until the fatal news came of the tragic end.
UK GOV WILL: 1915
BARON DE REUTER Herbert of 15 Palace-gate Middlesex died 18 April 1915 at Margery House Reigate Surrey Administration (with Will) London 28 August 1915 to Baron Hubert Julius De Reuter. Effects: £39,442
UK GOV WILL: 1917
BARON DE REUTER Herbert of 15 Palace-gate Kensington Middlesex died 18 April 1915 at Margery House Reigate Surrey Administration (with Will) London 31 January 1917 to Olga Edith Douglas (wife of John Douglas). Effects: £26,509. Former Grant August 1915.
2ND BARON DE REUTER
He was the son of Paul Julius, 1st Baron de Reuter and Ida Maria Magnus. On 05 January 1876, he married Edith Campbell.
FUNERAL: Western Mail 23 April 1915, Page 6
IN DEATH UNDIVIDED
BARON DE REUTER AND WIFE LAID TO REST IN SAME GRAVE
The funeral of Baron and Baroness de Reuter took place on Thursday afternoon, at Kingswood, Surrey, husband and wife being laid to rest in the same grave. The chief mourners were the son, in the uniform of a private in the Sportsmen's Battalion: Mrs. John W. E. J. Douglas, daughter: and Countess Stenbock, the baron's sister. Among a large number of beautiful wreaths the most pathetic was one bearing the inscription: "To my darling wife Edith. In memorium. - Herbert de Reuter."
DEATH: The New York Herald, European Edition, April 20, 1915
After Wife's Death, Baron de Reuter Commits Suicide
LONDON — Baron de Reuter, the death of whose wife on Friday [April 16] at Margery House, Lower Kingswood, Reigate, has already been announced in the HERALD, committed suicide last night by shooting himself with a revolver. Since his wife's death, to whom he had been married for thirty-nine years, the baron had been deeply depressed, and he passed several hours daily beside the body.
Yesterday morning he remained beside the coffin for two hours and the servant heard him crying bitterly. In the afternoon Baron de Reuter was seen strolling about the grounds. Later he was missed, and, the servants becoming anxious, a search was made. The baron was found dead sitting in the summer-house. In his hand was a six-chambered revolver containing one spent cartridge. The other chambers were empty. The bullet had entered the left temple, emerging at the right side of the head and lodging in the wall of the summer-house.
The baron, who was sixty-three years of age, left several letters. One of these was addressed to his gardener and another was addressed ''To the spirit of my dear wife.'' The funeral of Baroness de Reuter which was to have taken place to-day has been postponed so that husband and wife may be buried together. August Julius Clemens Herbert, Baron de Reuter, was the second holder of the title, a British subject, and the managing director of Reuter's Telegram Company.
DEATH: Globe - Monday 19 April 1915
TRAGIC END OF BARON DE REUTER
FOUND SHOT AFTER DEATH OF HIS WIFE
PATHETIC LETTER
ROMANCE OF A GREAT NEWS AGENCY
We regret to learn that Baron Herbert de Reuter, managing director of Reuter's Telegram Company, was yesterday found lying dead at his residence near Reigate. A revolver which had been discharged was found, and there appears to be little or no doubt that Baron de Reuter fell by his own hand.
He was greatly overwrought by the sudden death of his wife, to whom he was devotedly attached, and whose body still lies in the house, awaiting interment, the funeral in fact being fixed for to-day.
Baron de Reuter went for a walk in the grounds the house yesterday, and as he did not return the servants became anxious, and the gardener went in search of him. He reached the summer house ahd there found his master lying dead, with revolver in his hand. The bullet had entered the left temple, come out at the right temple, and lodged the woodwork of the summer-house.
The police were sent for, and they found several letters written by the deceased, one of which was addressed to the gardener, and another to "The spirit of dear wife, Edith". An inquest will be held, and the funeral of the Baroness de Reuter has been postponed in consequence of the tragedy.
Baron Herbert de Reuter was the eldest son of the late Baron Julius do Reuter, the founder of the News Agency which bears his name. He was born on March 10, 1852. He went from Harrow to Balliol College, Oxford, but in spite of the remonstrances of Dr. Jewett, who was then Master of Balliol, refused to stay at Oxford long enough to take his degree.
MUSIC STUDY
His bent was in the direction of science and art, and he decided upon making a professional study of music, in which he had already developed signal talent, and went to study in Paris. He found, however, after a year or more, that his technical achievement was unlikely to reach the level of his hope and first anticipation, and returned to London at the age 22, prepared to comply with his father's wish that be should enter the service of Reuter's Agency.
Forty years ago in January last Herbert de Reuter came to offices in Old Jewry for the first time, and since that date he made the welfare and advancement of the agency his sole care. At first assistant to his father and after a few years as managing director in his place, Baron Herbert devoted the best of his time and energies solidifying the foundations and multiplying the connections of the agency, until it may be said that there is now no part of the civilised world to which Reuter's telegrams do not penetrate or with which Reuter's Agency is not in communication.
"PLUME OF THE BUSINESS."
There are several branches of business in Reuter's Telegram Company, but Baron de Reuter's personal pride was wrapped up in the success of the news agency, which he was won't to describe as the Panache ''—the plume—of the business. For this he worked early and late, sacrificing much of his domestic life and personal ease to official exigencies. His life history was the history of the agency.
For many years he had suffered from a distressing complaint which perpetually robbed him of sleep, and of late he had been much troubled with rheumatism, but bore these things with an admirable stoicism and remained to the end active in mind and cheerful of disposition. But a few weeks ago the members of the London staff, in recognition of the jubilee of the company, presented him with an address of heartfelt acknowledgment of his official life and of his personal qualities.
On Thursday last he was at the office, as usual, until late in the evening, and chatted with his customary geniality with his friend's there. He went home to Palace-gate, Kensington. That night came a message by telephone from his house near Reigate that his wife, who previous to her marriage in 1876 was Miss Edith Campbell, daughter Mr. Robert Campbell, of Buscot Park, Berks, had died suddenly. Since then no word beyond a brief note of poignant grief had been received from him until the fatal news came of the tragic end.
UK GOV WILL: 1915
BARON DE REUTER Herbert of 15 Palace-gate Middlesex died 18 April 1915 at Margery House Reigate Surrey Administration (with Will) London 28 August 1915 to Baron Hubert Julius De Reuter. Effects: £39,442
UK GOV WILL: 1917
BARON DE REUTER Herbert of 15 Palace-gate Kensington Middlesex died 18 April 1915 at Margery House Reigate Surrey Administration (with Will) London 31 January 1917 to Olga Edith Douglas (wife of John Douglas). Effects: £26,509. Former Grant August 1915.
He was the son of Paul Julius, 1st Baron de Reuter and Ida Maria Magnus. On 05 January 1876, he married Edith Campbell.
FUNERAL: Western Mail 23 April 1915, Page 6
IN DEATH UNDIVIDED
BARON DE REUTER AND WIFE LAID TO REST IN SAME GRAVE
The funeral of Baron and Baroness de Reuter took place on Thursday afternoon, at Kingswood, Surrey, husband and wife being laid to rest in the same grave. The chief mourners were the son, in the uniform of a private in the Sportsmen's Battalion: Mrs. John W. E. J. Douglas, daughter: and Countess Stenbock, the baron's sister. Among a large number of beautiful wreaths the most pathetic was one bearing the inscription: "To my darling wife Edith. In memorium. - Herbert de Reuter."
DEATH: The New York Herald, European Edition, April 20, 1915
After Wife's Death, Baron de Reuter Commits Suicide
LONDON — Baron de Reuter, the death of whose wife on Friday [April 16] at Margery House, Lower Kingswood, Reigate, has already been announced in the HERALD, committed suicide last night by shooting himself with a revolver. Since his wife's death, to whom he had been married for thirty-nine years, the baron had been deeply depressed, and he passed several hours daily beside the body.
Yesterday morning he remained beside the coffin for two hours and the servant heard him crying bitterly. In the afternoon Baron de Reuter was seen strolling about the grounds. Later he was missed, and, the servants becoming anxious, a search was made. The baron was found dead sitting in the summer-house. In his hand was a six-chambered revolver containing one spent cartridge. The other chambers were empty. The bullet had entered the left temple, emerging at the right side of the head and lodging in the wall of the summer-house.
The baron, who was sixty-three years of age, left several letters. One of these was addressed to his gardener and another was addressed ''To the spirit of my dear wife.'' The funeral of Baroness de Reuter which was to have taken place to-day has been postponed so that husband and wife may be buried together. August Julius Clemens Herbert, Baron de Reuter, was the second holder of the title, a British subject, and the managing director of Reuter's Telegram Company.
DEATH: Globe - Monday 19 April 1915
TRAGIC END OF BARON DE REUTER
FOUND SHOT AFTER DEATH OF HIS WIFE
PATHETIC LETTER
ROMANCE OF A GREAT NEWS AGENCY
We regret to learn that Baron Herbert de Reuter, managing director of Reuter's Telegram Company, was yesterday found lying dead at his residence near Reigate. A revolver which had been discharged was found, and there appears to be little or no doubt that Baron de Reuter fell by his own hand.
He was greatly overwrought by the sudden death of his wife, to whom he was devotedly attached, and whose body still lies in the house, awaiting interment, the funeral in fact being fixed for to-day.
Baron de Reuter went for a walk in the grounds the house yesterday, and as he did not return the servants became anxious, and the gardener went in search of him. He reached the summer house ahd there found his master lying dead, with revolver in his hand. The bullet had entered the left temple, come out at the right temple, and lodged the woodwork of the summer-house.
The police were sent for, and they found several letters written by the deceased, one of which was addressed to the gardener, and another to "The spirit of dear wife, Edith". An inquest will be held, and the funeral of the Baroness de Reuter has been postponed in consequence of the tragedy.
Baron Herbert de Reuter was the eldest son of the late Baron Julius do Reuter, the founder of the News Agency which bears his name. He was born on March 10, 1852. He went from Harrow to Balliol College, Oxford, but in spite of the remonstrances of Dr. Jewett, who was then Master of Balliol, refused to stay at Oxford long enough to take his degree.
MUSIC STUDY
His bent was in the direction of science and art, and he decided upon making a professional study of music, in which he had already developed signal talent, and went to study in Paris. He found, however, after a year or more, that his technical achievement was unlikely to reach the level of his hope and first anticipation, and returned to London at the age 22, prepared to comply with his father's wish that be should enter the service of Reuter's Agency.
Forty years ago in January last Herbert de Reuter came to offices in Old Jewry for the first time, and since that date he made the welfare and advancement of the agency his sole care. At first assistant to his father and after a few years as managing director in his place, Baron Herbert devoted the best of his time and energies solidifying the foundations and multiplying the connections of the agency, until it may be said that there is now no part of the civilised world to which Reuter's telegrams do not penetrate or with which Reuter's Agency is not in communication.
"PLUME OF THE BUSINESS."
There are several branches of business in Reuter's Telegram Company, but Baron de Reuter's personal pride was wrapped up in the success of the news agency, which he was won't to describe as the Panache ''—the plume—of the business. For this he worked early and late, sacrificing much of his domestic life and personal ease to official exigencies. His life history was the history of the agency.
For many years he had suffered from a distressing complaint which perpetually robbed him of sleep, and of late he had been much troubled with rheumatism, but bore these things with an admirable stoicism and remained to the end active in mind and cheerful of disposition. But a few weeks ago the members of the London staff, in recognition of the jubilee of the company, presented him with an address of heartfelt acknowledgment of his official life and of his personal qualities.
On Thursday last he was at the office, as usual, until late in the evening, and chatted with his customary geniality with his friend's there. He went home to Palace-gate, Kensington. That night came a message by telephone from his house near Reigate that his wife, who previous to her marriage in 1876 was Miss Edith Campbell, daughter Mr. Robert Campbell, of Buscot Park, Berks, had died suddenly. Since then no word beyond a brief note of poignant grief had been received from him until the fatal news came of the tragic end.
UK GOV WILL: 1915
BARON DE REUTER Herbert of 15 Palace-gate Middlesex died 18 April 1915 at Margery House Reigate Surrey Administration (with Will) London 28 August 1915 to Baron Hubert Julius De Reuter. Effects: £39,442
UK GOV WILL: 1917
BARON DE REUTER Herbert of 15 Palace-gate Kensington Middlesex died 18 April 1915 at Margery House Reigate Surrey Administration (with Will) London 31 January 1917 to Olga Edith Douglas (wife of John Douglas). Effects: £26,509. Former Grant August 1915.
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