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Died. Edward Henry Carson, Baron Carson of Duncairn, 81, "Lion of Ulster," implacable opponent of Irish Home Rule, brilliant lawyer, in-&-out member of the British Wartime Cabinet; of lymphatic leukemia; in Minster-in-Thanet, Kent. Before the War. Carson declared he would fight Home Rule with force: organized a huge volunteer army. The War diverted this activity but after the Armistice Carson resumed his stand and to this day Protestant Ulster remains politically apart from Catholic Ireland. A wizard with juries, Carson successfully defended the cackling old Marquess of Queensbury in Oscar Wilde's libel suit, brought out much of the evidence that sent Wilde to jail.