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OBITUARY
LIEUT.-COL. SIR CHARLES FREDERICK
We regret to announce the death of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Arthur Andrew Frederick, G.C.V.O., K.C.B., late of the Coldstream Guards and until recently Master of the Kings Household, which occurred early yesterday morning at Brunswick-terrace, Brighton, after many weeks illness, from heart failure.
The only son of Mr. Arthur T. Frederick, Sir Charles Frederick was born in 1861, and was the third cousin of the late Sir Charles Edward Frederick, who died in March last.
He was a member of a family which has given a remarkable number of its members to the naval and military service of the Crown.
He served with the Suakin Expedition in 1885, and his foreign decorations included the 1st Class of the Prussian Order of the Crown and the 2nd Class of the Order of the Red Eagle with oak leaves.
His only sister, Olive Emily, married in 1882 Mr. Guy T. S. Sebright, who served with him in the Coldstream Guards.
Sir Charles was a bachelor.
Sir Charles Frederick, who was succeeded by Sir Derek Keppel at the beginning of the present year, himself succeeded Lord Farquhar as Master of the King's Household and served during the greater part of King Edward's reign.
He was reappointed by King George with Sir Derek Keppel as his deputy, but his health was much impaired during the latter part of his term of office.
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He was extra Equerry to King Edward from 1902 to 1910 and to King George from 1910, Deputy Master of the King's Household from 1901 to 1907, Acting-Secretary of the Board of Green Cloth from 18903 to 1907, Master of the Household of King Edward from 1907 to 1910, and of that of King George from that date onwards until the present year.
King Edward once said of Sir Charles Frederick that he was "very much of a Grand Seigneur."
He had a fine presence and combined exceptional courtesy with an unvarying dignity, and, above all, his characteristic was a high sense of duty.
It was yesterday said of him by one who had exceptional opportunities of knowing him: - "He was fearless so long as he knew that he was doing his duty, and a man of broad sympathies, whose personality had never been changed by any surroundings.
He will be missed by those in high and low places."
He was regarded not merely as an official, but as a friend by those whom he served, and he united to a deeply religious mind a keen sensitiveness in avoiding the least suggestion that he was not wholly of the world as well as in it.
Often he had been known to abandon some great entertainment in order that he might go and solace the dying hours of a friend.
Although he was extremely strict in the administration of his office, he was very popular among his subordinates, as he had before been among all ranks of his old regiment.
By permission of the King the first part of the funeral service will be held at the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, at half-past 10 on Wednesday morning.
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