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College, Cambridge; B.A., 1864, Second Classic (bracketed); Fellow of Trinity, 1865-80; Inspector of Schools, 1867; took a leading part in Psychical Research, and was one of the founders, with E. Gurney and H. Sidgwick, of the society so named; author of "St. Paul" (a poem, 1867), "The Renewal of Youth (poems, 1882), "Life of Wordsworth"; joint translator of the "Iliad" with A. Lang and W. Leaf; author of "Phantasms of the Living" (1882). M., 1880, Eveleen, dau. of Charles Tennant, of Cadoxton. On the 17th, at Toronto, Canada, aged 78, Sir Frank Smith. Born at Richhill, co. Armagh. Emigrated with his family to Canada, 1832; first worked on a farm, and afterwards at a store, of which he became manager, and subsequently amassed a large fortune. One of the originators of the Ontario Catholic League, 1871; summoned to the Canadian Senate, 1871; member of successive Cabinets from Sir John Macdonald's to Sir C. Tupper's. On the 17th, in Paris, aged 76, Jules Barbier, a playwright and librettist; was associated with Meyerbeer, Ambroise Thomas, Gounod, Offenbach, etc. On the 18th, at Onslow Gardens, S. W., aged 76, William Sedgwick Saunders, M.D. Born at Compton-Gifford, Devon. Educated at King's College, London, and St. Thomas's Hospital. Entered Army Medical Service, 1843-53; served in Canada and West Indies; commenced civil practice in the City of London; elected to the Common Council, and was Chairman of the Library Committee, 1870; Medical Officer of the City, 1874; author of numerous works on medical and sanitary subjects. On the 19th, at Kensington Palace, aged 73, Rev. William Graham Green. Graduated from St. John's College, Cambridge; ordained, 1850; served as Naval Chaplain, 1852-65; Vicar, Holy Trinity, Minories, and Chaplain, St. Peter-ad-Vincula, at the Tower, till 1876; subsequently held country livings till 1888, when he was appointed Chaplain-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria at Kensington Palace. On the 19th, at Leicester, aged 91, James Ellis, a member of the Society of Friends, and head of a large firm of quarry owners; sat as a Liberal for Leicester, 1885-92. On the 19th, at Farnley-Grange, near Newcastleon-Tyne, aged 68, George Baker Forster, s. of Thomas Emmerson Forster. eminent mining engineer and coal-owner; served on several Royal Commissions; enjoyed confidence, as arbitrator, of masters and men; President for three years. of Mining Institute, and Vice-Chairman of Northumberland Coal-owners' Association from 1885 to his death. On the 19th, at Brighton, aged 76, Major-General John Miller, late 3rd Dragoon Guards and 13th Hussars; served with 10th Regiment in Sutlej campaign, 1846-medal and clasp for Sobraon; with 3rd Dragoon Guards in Indian Mutiny, 1858-9; in Abyssinian campaign (mention and medal). On (or about) the 20th, M. Gramme, eminent Belgian electrician. In 1872 patented the dynamo, receiving for it 20,000 francs from French Government, and Volta Prize of 20,000 francs from the Academy of Science. On the 20th, at Wells, aged 57, William Gill. As manager of Orconera Iron Ore Company took a leading part in building up the iron ore trade of Bilbao." On the 21st, at Exeter, aged 80, Major-General George Harper Saxton, F.R.G.S. Appointed to Madras Native Infantry, 1838; devoted himself chiefly to survey work; was a bimetallist, and an advocate of a decimal coinage. On the 23rd, at Frankfort-on-Main, aged 72, Baron Wilhelm Karl von Rothschild, s. of Baron Karl. Born at Naples; removed to Frankfort, 1845, and on the death of Baron Mayer, in 1886, became head of the Frankfort house; was many years Austrian Consul-General, and devoted himself to the study of Talmudic literature. M., 1849, Baroness Mathilda von Rothschild. On the 24th, at Lympshaw Manor House, Weston-super-Mare, aged 82, Prebendary Joseph Henry Stephenson. Graduated from Queen's College, Oxford, 1841; ordained, 1842; became Rector (1844) of Lympshaw, Somerset, of which he was patron and lord of the manor, and remained there till his death; also held from 1845 till his death Diocesan Inspectorship of Schools. Evangelical of old school; was respected by all. On the 24th, in Paris, aged 62, Paul Lissagaray. Born at Auch; passed several years in America; returned to Paris, 1864, as a lecturer and journalist, taking a leading part in the Paris Commune, 1871, of which he wrote the history; returned from London to Paris, 1880, and started La Bataille, which vehemently attacked Boulanger, and had a duel with Rochefort. On the 25th, at Greenwich Vicarage, aged 66, Rev. Brooke Lambert, M.A., B.C.L. Educated at Brighton College, and Brasenose College, Oxford; B.A., 1857; after working in Lancashire he was appointed Vicar of St. Mark's, Whitechapel, 1865-72; of Tamworth, 1872-8; and of Greenwich, 1880; he was chief founder of the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants; an active member of the Greenwich Board of Guardians, and a member of the Royal Commission on Poor Law Schools. He belonged to the Broad Church party. On the 25th, at

Bournemouth, aged 72, Charles Fraser-Mackintosh, LL.D., of Lochardill, Inverness, s. of James Fraser, of Inverness. Was educated at Inverness, and admitted solicitor, 1853, retiring in 1867, having assumed the name of Mackintosh; sat as a Liberal for Inverness Burghs, 1874-85, and, in the Crofter interest, but as a Liberal Unionist, for Inverness-shire from 1886-92; was a member of Lord Napier's Crofters Commission. On the 27th, at St. Leonards-on-Sea, aged 69, Basil Woodd Smith. Took an active part in all the local and philanthropic work of Hampstead. On the 28th, at Burgess Hill, aged 79, General Walter Douglas Phillipps Patton-Bethune, s. of Captain T. Patton, R.N., of Bishop's Hull, Somerset. Served with 74th Regiment through the Kaffir War, 1851-3; attached to the Staff in the Crimean Campaign, 1854-5; and served through the Indian Mutiny, 1857-8; Colonel of 74th Foot-afterwards Highland Light Infantry1876; assumed additional name of Bethune, 1882. M., 1855, Julia, dau. of Sir Howard Elphinstone, M.P. On the 28th, in Paris, aged 75, Vicomte Henri de Bornier. Born at Lunel (Hérault); educated at Montpelier and Paris, and trained to the law; published his first volume of poetry," Premières Feuilles," 1845; appointed to the Arsenal Library, 1847, of which he became chief Librarian; elected member of the French Academy, 1893; author of " Mariage de Luther (1854), "Dante et Béatrix" (1858), "Agamemnon (1868), "Fille de Roland" (1875), etc. On the 28th, at Whalley Range, Manchester, aged 65, Sir John William Maclure, M.P., first baronet, s. of John Maclure, a Manchester merchant. Educated at Manchester Grammar School, and entered the Manchester and Salford Bank, and took up the Volunteer movement with great ardour; by his exertions raised large sums for Manchester Cathedral and suburban churches; as Honorary Secretary of the Lancashire Cotton Famine Relief Funds, 1862-4, he showed conspicuous ability; sat as a Conservative for the Stretford Division of South-East Lancashire since 1886; was called to the bar of the House and admonished by the Speaker (1892) in connection with the dismissal of a railway servant who had given evidence before a Select Committee; he was an extremely popular member of the House of Commons. M., 1859, Eleanor, dau. of Thomas Nettleship, of East Sheen. On the 29th, at Sachavov, near Tver, aged 73, Joseph Vassilyévich Gourko, of an ancient Lithuanian family. Educated in the Corps of Imperial Pages at St. Petersburg; entered the Hussars of the Imperial Bodyguard, 1846, but served with the Infantry through the Crimean Campaign, 1854-6; appointed orderly officer to the Tsar, 1857; was employed in suppressing the Polish insurrection, 1863, when he showed great severity; was in command of the advance guard of the army of the Danube in the Russo-Turkish War, 1877-8, when he captured Tirnova, and afterwards held the Shipka Pass; then, falling back, took an active part in the reduction of Plevna, after which, crossing the Balkans in winter storms, he occupied Sofia, 'Philippopolis, and Adrianople; created Count, 1878; made Governor-General of St. Petersburg, 1879, and by his brutality goaded the Nihilists to repeated outrages; dismissed and banished to his estates, 1883; he was recalled by Alexander III., and appointed Governor-General of the Polish Provinces, where his treatment of the Poles in 1884 was universally condemned; in 1892 he was appointed Commander-in-chief of all troops in Poland and Lithuania, but resigned after a short tenure of office. On (or about) the 28th, William Bramston, of Sheppey Court, Sheerness-on-Sea, an old supporter of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and other religious causes; wrote various tracts (one called "How Do I Know that the Bible is True?"), of which 1,500,000 copies were said to have been circulated. On the 29th, at Devonshire Street, Portland Place, aged 62, Rev. Hugh Reginald Haweis, s. of Rev. J. O. W. Haweis, Canon of Winchester. Born at Egham; graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained a reputation as a violinist, but before taking his degree he served with Garibaldi during the Italian War of Independence, 1860; Curate of St. Peter's, Bethnal Green, 1861-3; of St. James the Less, Westminster, 1864-86, when he was appointed to St. James's Church, Westmoreland Street, Marylebone; was a great traveller, a popular preacher, lecturer, and musical critic; author of "Thoughts for the Times," "Music and Morals," "6 Speech in Season," "Christ and Christianity," etc. On the 29th, at Cheltenham, aged 68, Major-General J. M. Muspratt Williams, s. of a chaplain of the same name in the East India Company's service; joined 1st Madras Fusiliers at an early age; medal for service in second Burmese War; in 1857 conducted several expeditions against rebels, and for that and other work received thanks of Governor-General in Council. On the 31st, at Westonsuper-Mare, aged 72, Colonel Mansfield Turner, s. of William Turner, of H.M. Diplomatic Service. Entered the Army, 1846; served with 20th Regiment. M.,

1854, Marianne, dau. of Edward Archer, of Trelaske, Cornwall. On the 31st, in Kentish Town, aged 74, Colonel John William Bird. An enthusiastic Volunteer; joined 1st Surrey Artillery Volunteers in the early sixties, and only retired on reaching the age limit, having during his service raised and equipped a battery of over 100 men at a cost of over 1,000l.; he was very active in the public life of Hornsey.

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On the 1st, at Marlesford, Suffolk, aged 75, Fitz Edward Hall. Born in New York State. Educated at Harvard; sent round the world in pursuit of his brother; wrecked in the Hooghly, remained in India, studying Persian and Sanskrit; appointed Professor of Sanskrit at Benares, 1851; Inspector of Schools in the North-Central Provinces; was besieged in Sangor for six months during the Mutiny; came to England, appointed Professor of Sanskrit at King's College, and Librarian at the India Office, 1860-70, when he retired and devoted himself to study and to helping on Dr. Murray's Dictionary. On the 2nd, in Mayfair, aged 80, Thomas Fenn, for twenty years Chairman of the Committee of the Settlement Department of the Stock Exchange, in which capacity his services were greatly valued; was also a very active Freemason. On the 2nd, at Maida Vale, W., aged 71, John Cordy Jeaffreson, s. of Wm. Jeaffreson, an eminent surgeon. Educated at Woodbridge and Botesdale Grammar Schools, and Pembroke College, Oxford; B.A., 1850; was called to the Bar, but devoted himself to literature; author of "A Book about Doctors,' Annals of Oxford," "The Real Lord Byron" (1883), "The Real Shelley" (1888), "Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton" (1891), etc.; in 1894 was appointed an inspector of ancient writings under the Historical Manuscripts Commission. M., 1860, May, dau. of Wm. Eccles, F.R.C.S. On the 3rd, at Albury, Surrey, aged 95, George Valentine Woodhouse," the last of the Apostles," was the oldest member of the English Bar; attached himself to the Irvingite or "Catholic Apostolic" Church; he with Henry Drummond, M P., of Albury, and ten others, were "separated" to be apostles, July 14, 1835. On the 3rd, at Mentone, aged 74, Colonel Samuel Lloyd Howard, C.B., of Goldings, Loughton, head of the firm of Howard & Sons, Chemical Manufacturers, Stratford; took an active part in local matters and the Volunteer movement; Colonel of 1st Essex Volunteer Artillery. On the 3rd, at Southampton, aged 70, Major-General Henry Vincent Mathias. Joined Bengal Staff Corps, 1849; served through Sonthal Campaign, 1855-6; medal with clasp for service as second in command of Rewah contingent at storming of Punwarrah Heights, during operations of 1857-8. On the 3rd, at Bromley, aged 80, Lieutenant-Colonel James Scott. After service in the ranks with the 55th Regiment in the first China War, was promoted to an ensigncy, November 5, 1854, for gallantry at Inkerman; wounded, as a lieutenant, in the attack on the Quarries; mentioned in despatches. On the 4th, at Camden Town, N. W., aged 82, Edward John Hopkins, Chorister at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, 1826-33; studied under T. A. Walmisley; organist at Mitcham, 1834-8; St. Peter's, Islington, 1838-40; St. Luke's, Soho, 1840-3, when he was appointed organist to the Temple Church; retired, 1897; joint author with Dr. E. F. Rimbault of "The Organ: Its History and Construction," the standard work on the subject; author of many anthems, chants, services and hymn tunes. On the 4th, at Torquay, aged 64, Sir Robert Tempest Tempest, third baronet, s. of Sir Cornwallis Ricketts. Born in Rome, assumed the name of Tempest, 1884. M., 1861, Amelia Helen, dau. of John Steuart, Dalguise, Perthshire. On the 5th, at Lisbon, aged 69, Thomaz Ribeiro, a Portuguese traveller, poet, writer of travels, and statesman; several times Minister of Commerce. On (or about) the 5th, at Germiston, S. Africa, of enteric, Major Thomas R. Dodd, of the 2nd Battalion Railway Pioneer Corps; was Secretary of the Transvaal branch of the South African League, and one of the principal leaders of the second reform movement at Johannesburg and organisers of the Outlander community. On the 6th, at Auchinleck, aged 95, Rev. James Chrystal, D.D., LL.D., “Father of the Church of Scotland"; minister of the parish of Auchinleck since 1833. On the 7th, at Peterborough, aged 75, Rev. Thomas Barron, for fifty years Minister of a Baptist Chapel in that city, described by Dr. Magee as the " Nonconformist Bishop of Peterborough"; had been President of General Baptists' Association, and of East Midland Baptist Association. On the 7th, at Cumloden, Wigtownshire, aged 65, Earl of Galloway, K.T. Alan Plantagenet Stewart, tenth earl, entered the Horse Guards Blue, 1855; sat as Lord Garlies, as a Conservative, for Wigtownshire, 1868-73; High Commissioner to the General Assembly, 1876-7. M., 1872, Lady Mary Arabella Arthur Cecil, dau. of second Marquess of Salisbury, and half-sister of the Premier. On the 8th, at Banbury, aged 67, Thomas Wayman Educated at Halifax; was a large woolstapler; sat as a Liberal for the Elland Division of Yorkshire, 1885-99. On the 9th, at Blackburn, aged 60, Right Rev. Francis Alexander Randal Cramer-Roberts, D.D., son of Colonel Cramer-Roberts, Inspector General, R.I.C. Born at Armagh; educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A., 1864; Rector of Llandinabo, Herefordshire, 1870-3; of Godstone, Surrey, 1873-8; Bishop of Nassau, W.I. (diocese including the

Bahamas, Turks Island, and Caicos), 1878-85; Vicar of Milford, Hants, 1885-7, and of Blackburn, Lancs., 1887, where he acted as Assistant Bishop to Bishops Harold Browne of Winchester, and Moorhouse of Manchester, respectively; Archdeacon of Blackburn, 1898. On the 9th, at Torquay, aged 94, Major-General Frederick Gaitskell, C.B. Commanded an artillery brigade at Delhi, 1857. M., dau. of Major J. Hamilton, widow of Surgeon-Major Reid. On the 9th, at Exeter, aged 74, Surgeon-General Stephen Chapman Townsend, C.B., formerly of Indian Medical Service, s. of Rev. J. S. Townsend, of Whimple, Devon; medal for Burmese War, 1852-3; severely wounded in Afghan War, 1878-80, with Kuram division, for services with which he was mentioned in despatches, and made C.B. On the 10th, at Munich, aged 82, by his own hand, Professor Max von Pettenkofer. Born at Lichtenstein on the Danube; studied medicine at Munich, Giessen, and Würzburg; for some years Assistant Officer at the Royal Bavarian Mint; devoted himself to the study of the conditions of the spread of cholera and other epidemics, and their prevention by due attention to sanitation and hygiene. A professorship of hygiene was founded for him at the Munich University, 1875, and the example was followed by other German universities, his pupils occupying nearly all the chairs. On the 10th, at Madrid, aged 81, Ramon de Campoamor y Campeosorio, a Spanish poet of considerable distinction, and of strongly anti-democratic tendencies. On the 11th, at the Carlton Club, Pall Mall, aged 70, Colonel George Morland Hutton, C.B., of Gate Burton Hall, Lincolnshire, s. of W. Hutton. Served with 46th Regiment in Crimea, 1854-5; LieutenantColonel, Lincolnshire Artillery Volunteers, 1868-97. M., 1870, Eustacie G. M., dau. of Eustace Arkwright, of Sutton Scarsdale, Derbyshire. On the 11th, at Bartholomew Road, N. W., aged 81, Henry Willis, a famous organ builder, who practically extended the range of the pedal board from G to C; his first work was done at Gloucester Cathedral in 1847, but he first came into notice at the Exhibition of 1851, and afterwards restored most of the cathedral organs in England, and built amongst others that at the Albert Hall, 1871. On the 12th, at Castle Wemyss, N.B., aged 71, Lord Inverclyde. George Burns, s. of Sir George Burns, first baronet, educated at Glasgow University; entered the firm of G. & J. Burns, shipbuilders, of Glasgow, and became one of the founders, and afterwards Chairman of the Cunard Company; created a peer, 1897. M., 1860, Emily, dau. of George Clark Arbuthnot, of Mavisbank, Midlothian, who survived her husband only two days. On the 14th, at Chester Square, S. W., aged 80, Sir Edward William Stafford, G.C.M.G., s. of Berkeley Buckingham Stafford, of Maine, co. Louth. Born in Edinburgh; graduated at Trinity College, Dublin, 1842; settled in New Zealand, 1843; was Prime Minister, 1856-61, and 1865-9, throughout the Maori War and troubles, and again for a month in 1872, retiring as the result of a parliamentary defeat, after which he returned to England. M., first, 1846, Emily Charlotte, dau. of Colonel Wakefield; and, second, 1859, Mary, dau. of J. Bartley, Speaker of Legislative Council, N.Z. On the 14th, at Pont Street, Chelsea, aged 78, Hon. George Francis Stewart Elliot, s. of second Earl of Minto. Educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A., 1843; called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, 1847; attached to Lord John Russell's mission to Vienna, 1855; Private Secretary to him, 1859-66. On the 15th, aged 57, Paul de Vigne, eminent Belgian sculptor. On the 15th, at Bath, aged 73, Major-General John Stewart Tulloh, C.B., s. of Captain Tulloh, R.N., fought in the Sutlej campaign of 1845-6, in his teens, in the old Bengal Artillery; also at Chillianwalla and Gujarat; and while still Captain commanded the Royal Artillery in expedition against North-west frontier tribes in 1863; made Brevet-Major and C.B. for action at the capture of Umbeyla. M., Mary Jane, dau. of J. H. Fell, Belmont, Uxbridge. On (or about) the 16th, at Hove, aged 88, George Graham. Was member of the first House of Representatives of New Zealand, and sat for nine sessions. His influence, exercised on and after a visit which he courageously made (1865), alone and unarmed, to the Maori chiefs, was greatly instrumental in bringing about lasting peace in the Colony. He was in the Royal Engineers, and with them at the taking of Canton. On the 17th, at Shirecliff Hall, Yorks, aged 85, Sir Henry Edmund Watson. Admitted as a solicitor, 1836; Director of Charles Cammell & Co. (of which firm he was for many years chairman) and of other commercial undertakings, and took a leading part in the local business of Sheffield. On the 17th, at Richmond, Surrey, aged 83, Sir Francis Cook, first baronet, s. of William Cook, of Roydon Hall, Essex; head of the firm of Cook & Sons, Drapers, St. Paul's Churchyard; founded Alexandra House, South Kensington, for art students; was a collector of pictures and works of art; created Viscount Montserrat in the Kingdom of Portugal for his beneficence to

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