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Died. Lord Quickswood, 87 (formerly Lord Hugh Richard Heathcote Gascoyne-Cecil), longtime (1895-1906, 1910-37) Tory Member of Parliament and later (1936-44) provost of Eton, best man at the 1908 wedding of his lifelong friend Sir Winston Churchill; of a heart attack; in Bournemouth, England. A High Churchman who deplored nonconformists, Lord Hugh objected in 1938 to Unitarian Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's advising the Crown on the appointment of Anglican bishops, observed darkly: "If we lived in the reign of King Henry VIII, a Unitarian would not be in Downing Street. He would be burned at Smithfield."