1890; was Joint-Engineer with Mr. G. N. Abernethy in the construction of Heysham Harbour. On the 19th, Arthur Quarry Silcock, eminent Surgeon and Ophthalmologist; F.R.C.S., 1882. On the 18th, aged 65, suddenly in his own church, the Rev. Walter Abbott, a well-known Evangelical clergyman; Vicar of St. James's, Paddington, since 1876, before which he had held the vicarages of St. Martin's, Lincoln, and St. John's, Upper Holloway. On the 19th, aged 80, Charles H. Allen, F.R.G.S., for nineteen years the energetic Secretary of the British and Foreign Anti Slavery Society. Son of a Quaker philanthropist, he threw himself into the anti-slavery movement with inherited enthusiasm, and did much to further the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade throughout the Egyptian dominions and in other parts of Africa. He took a leading part in promoting the great International Anti-Slavery Conference at Brussels in 1889. On the 20th, aged 74, Duchess Alexandrine of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, dau. of the Grand Duke Leopold of Baden, widow of Duke Ernest II. of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and aunt by marriage of King Edward. On the 21st, at Temple Newsam, near Leeds, The Hon. Mrs. Meynell Ingram, widow of Hugo Francis Meynell Ingram, of Temple Newsam, and Hoar Cross, Staffordshire; dau. of Charles, first Viscount Halifax. She was lady of the manor of Leeds, Osmondthorpe, Halton, and Temple Newsam, and a lady of justice of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem; a supporter of many charities, and a generous giver to Church objects. On the 21st, aged 89, Admiral Sir Erasmus Ommanney, "Father of the Fleet." As a lad of thirteen he fought in a wooden man-of-war at Navarino, after being present at the landing of the British troops at Lisbon; was at Athens during the revolution of 1844, and was employed by the Government on relief work during the Irish famine. In 1850 he was appointed second in command under Captain Austin on the Arctic expedition of that year in search of Sir John Franklin, on which occasion he directed an extensive system of sledge journeys. During the Crimean War he commanded the White Sea Expedition in 1854, carrying out some successful operations, and in the following year he commanded the Hawke in the Baltic, and was senior officer in the blockading force in the Gulf of Riga. He became Vice-Admiral in 1871, and full Admiral on the retired list in 1877. On his retirement he threw himself with zeal into the work of numerous learned societies, and amongst other honours he was elected F.R.S. and F.R.A.S. On the 21st, S. Arthur Chappell, a well-known music publisher, whose firm established the Popular Concerts (1859-1900), which he managed, and by which he succeeded in developing the public taste for classical music in a remarkable manner. On the 22nd, aged 82, Captain John Squier Castle. He was Master of the troopship Sarah Sands, which took fire while conveying part of the 54th Regiment to India from the Cape, and, though burning for seventeen hours, during which the after part of the vessel was reduced to a shell, the fire was suppressed and she was safely navigated to port at Mauritius by Captain Castle without loss of life, the soldiers behaving splendidly. On the 25th, Charles J. Fleming, K.C., formerly an active member of the Northern Circuit; in early manhood was Chief Assistant to the Accountant-General of the Government of Bombay; sat for Doncaster division as a Liberal, 1892-5. On the 23rd, aged 56, Arthur Anderton, a worsted spinner at Cleckheaton; Alderman of the West Riding County Council, which he represented on the Moseley Commission to the United States. A very energetic Liberal in general and local politics. On the 25th, J. K. Wingfield-Digby, of Sherborne Castle; Conservative Member of Parliament for North Dorset since 1892. During the session of 1886 he sat for Mid Somerset. B. 1859; m., first, 1883, a dau. of Viscount Lifford; secondly, 1890, a dau. of W. J. Digby, of Moat Lodge, Galway. On the 26th, Edward John Payne, Recorder of High Wycombe since 1883. B. 1844; at one time Fellow of University College, Oxford; an authority on American History; his works include "A History of European Colonies" and "A History of the New World Called America," and he wrote the two opening chapters on "The Age of Discovery" and "The New World," in the first volume of the "Cambridge Modern History." On the 26th, aged 68, Colonel Charles Edward Stuart, C.B., C.M.G., C.I.E. Served in the Indian Mutiny; was twice mentioned in despatches for services in Indian frontier warfare; later was H.M. Consul at Resht, Tabriz, and Consul-General at Odessa. On the 26th, Henry Lee, Liberal Member of Parliament for Southampton, 1880-4, and one of the best-known men connected with the cotton trade of Manchester and Bolton; an active Congregationalist and Liberationist. On the 26th, The Rev. John Mackenzie Bacon, F.R.A.S., well known as a scientific lecturer and intrepid aeronaut. He took part in three eclipse expeditions of the British Astronomical Association, being in charge on two occasions (India, 1898, and North Carolina, 1900), and made investigations in acoustics, meteorology and other subjects allied to ballooning. On the 27th, aged 77, J. W.

J. Paterson, a Border tenant-farmer, who for over thirty years was master of the Eskdale foxhounds. A noted breeder and judge of hunters, and one of the finest horsemen in the kingdom. On the 27th, Colonel Edmund Lomax Fraser, late 60th Rifles. Entered the Army, 1863; served with distinction in the Sekukuni Campaign, in South Africa, 1879, and in the Soudan Expedition, 1884; twice receiving brevet promotion for his gallantry and capacity. On the 28th, James Hall, a wellknown shipowner of Newcastle, who had under his management the first screw collier; was identified with the early improvement of the Tyne; initiated the load-line agitation; and very generously promoted educational and charitable objects. On the 29th, aged 53, The Rev. Richard Lovett, one of the secretaries of the Religious Tract Society since 1899, having previously, from 1881, been its book editor; was also a Director of the London Missionary Society, of whose work he wrote the centenary history in two volumes; as well as biographies of the distinguished missionaries, James Gilmour and James Chalmers; he also published books on the history of the English Bible. On the 29th, aged 65, in London, Dr. Rustomjee Naserwanjee Khory, M.D., late Syndic and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in Bombay University; was a high authority on the drugs and other remedies used by the Indian native practitioners. On the 30th, aged 76, Frederick Clifford, K.C.; for many years was a member of the Times Parliamentary staff, and for some six years, from 1877, assistant in the editorial department of that paper. He was joint author with Mr. Pembroke Stephens, K.C., of a work on "The Practice of the Court of Referees on Private Bills in Parliament " (1879), which led the way to his obtaining a large practice as a parliamentary draftsman and before Parliamentary Committees. He also wrote "The History of Private Bill Legislation," a work of authority. He took silk in 1894, and was made a bencher of his Inn, the Middle Temple, 1900. He was one of the founders of the Press Association, and joint proprietor with the late Sir W. Leng, of the Sheffield Daily Telegraph. On the 30th, Madame Michaelis, pioneer of the Kindergarten system in Great Britain, to which she came some thirty years ago from Thuringia in order to propagate the principles of Froebel. She started the first English Kindergarten with Mrs. Edward Berry at Croydon in 1875, and became the first principal of the Froebel Educational Institute in West Kensington, 1891. On the 31st, George Hinckley, retired Quartermaster, R.N., V.C., which rank and decoration he won by conspicuous bravery (1862) in carrying into shelter two wounded officers after an unsuccessful attack by the naval brigade on the fort of Fungwha, held by the Taeping rebels, who were firing on them as they lay on the ground. In December, aged 90, the Rev. Dr. J. Murray Mitchell, a greatly respected veteran of Scottish Presbyterian missions in India, in connection with which he had done much valuable educational work at Bombay and Poona. In December, Major John Trenchard Tennant, C.B., who served in the Indian Army, 1858-61, and in the Irish Fusiliers, 1861-75. In the last-named year he became Travelling Inspector to the Veterinary Department of the Privy Council, being promoted to Chief Travelling Inspector in 1879. Subsequently he was elevated to the post of Assistant Secretary and head of the Animals Division under the Board of Agriculture To his exertions the nation largely owes its freedom from pleuro-pneumonia, foot-and-mouth disease, and rabies. For his services in this direction he was made a C.B. in 1900, and in the same year did good work as Secretary to the Royal Hospital Commission in South Africa. In December, Elijah Helm, Secretary to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce; a prolific and effective writer, and frequent lecturer, on economic and commercial subjects.

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