Marston & Co. He was prominently concerned with the International Fisheries Exhibition held at South Kensington in 1883. In 1884 he founded the Fly Fishers' Club and became its president and treasurer; while for over fifty years he was editor of the Fishing Gazette. He wrote many books on fishing and was considered an authority on the literature connected with Izaak Walton. He was also a keen photographer and translated Liesegang's "Carbon Process of Photography" and Tissandier's History and Handbook of Photography." He married in 1881, and left three daughters and two sons.

4. Miss Ellen Annette McArthur, a writer and teacher of history, was born in 1862, and educated partly in Germany and partly at St. Andrews School for Girls, under Dame Louisa Lumsden. In 1882 she proceeded as a scholar to Girton College, Cambridge, obtaining a First Class in the Historical Tripos in 1885. In 1886 she was appointed History Coach at Girton, and her association with the college continued until 1907 as Director of Studies in History, Deputy Librarian, and Vice-Mistress. For six years she was Head of the House of Residence in Cambridge for women post-graduate students. In 1905 she was given the degree of Litt.D. by Dublin, and two years later she began her connexion with the University of London. One of the most valued tributes to her reputation as a teacher was the request from various Cambridge tutors that men should be admitted to her lectures on Economic History which she started for Girton and Newnham students on the retirement of Dr. Cunningham. She worked with Dr. Cunningham on "The History of English Industry and Commerce," and in 1895 collaborated with him in "The Outlines of English Industrial History." During the woman suffrage movement she worked on the Committee of the Cambridge Women's Society and on the Executive Committee of the Central Society.

Lord Coleridge (Bernard John Seymour Coleridge), Judge of the King's Bench Division, was born in 1851. His father (John Duke Coleridge) was Lord Chief Justice of England from 1880 to 1894, and his grandfather-a nephew of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the poet-was made a Judge of the King's Bench in 1835. From Eton he went to Trinity College, Oxford, where he became President of the College Boat Club, stroked the boat and won the 3-mile walking race at the Oxford University sports. He obtained a Second Class in the Modern History School, and later became a Fellow of his College. In 1877 he was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple, of which he was subsequently a Bencher and (in 1919) Treasurer. Joining the Western Circuit, he acquired a large practice; and in 1885 he entered Parliament as member for a Sheffield division. Throughout his political career he identified himself with the extreme left wing of the Liberal Party, being a Home Ruler and opposed to the hereditary character of the House of Lords. In 1892 he took silk and when, in 1894, he succeeded to his father's peerage, he was the first peer to practise at the Bar. In 1906 he went as Commissioner of Assize on the Midland Circuit and in 1907 he was appointed a Judge of the King's Bench Division, where he won a high reputation for handling juries. In 1917 (as Judge under the Benefices Act, 1898), he presided at the first appeal of the Court set up by that Act. He had also been Chairman of the Devon Quarter Sessions and of the Conciliation Board for the Coal Trade of the Federated Districts. In 1905 he published "The Story of a Devonshire House," the history of Ottery St. Mary, the family seat; and in 1925 a volume of reminiscences called "This for Remembrance." In 1876 he married Mary Alethea, daughter of the late Rt. Rev. J. F. Mackarness, Bishop of Oxford, by whom he had one son and a daughter.

8. Sir John Lane Harrington, aged 62, well known for his diplomatic work in Abyssinia, was the son of the late Nicholas Harrington, M.R.C.S., and educated at Stonyhurst. He first joined the Army (in 1884), but a few years later he became employed in the Consular Service, being appointed, in 1895, H.M. ViceConsul at Zaila at a critical time in the history of Abyssinia. In 1897, when

the British Mission under Sir Rennell Rodd was sent to Abyssinia, the transport arrangements were in Harrington's hands. In 1898 he was promoted Consul at Zaila, and was also made His Majesty's Agent at the Court of Menelek, the Abyssinian Emperor. In 1900 he was promoted Agent and Consul-General at Adis Ababa, and in 1903 he became first British Minister at the Court of Abyssinia, where he had ten years of conspicuous success. In 1902 he signed the Treaty defining the Sudan-Abyssinian frontier, and in the same year accompanied Menelek's probable successor to England when the Abyssinian special convoy came to attend King Edward's Coronation. In 1903 he was made K.C.V.O., and three years later he participated in the negotiations for the agreement between Britain, France, and Italy as to the maintenance of the status quo in Abyssinia. In 1909 he retired, unsuccessfully contesting the Crewe Division for the Conservatives in the following year. At the next election he opposed John Burns at Battersea, and again fought the constituency in 1918, both times unsuccessfully. During the Great War he commanded a battalion of the Essex Regiment and was mentioned in despatches. In 1901 he was made C.V.O., in 1902 C.B., and in 1909 K.C.M.G. He received the First Class of the Order of the Star of Ethiopia. In 1907 he married Amy, daughter of Senator Macmillan of the U.S.A.

14. Arthur Bourchier, the popular actor-manager, was born in 1863, the son of Captain Charles John Bourchier, and educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where in his undergraduate days he founded the dramatic society now known as the O.U.D.S. His first professional appearance was as Jacques in "As You Like It" at the Theatre Royal, Wolverhampton. After playing Joseph Surface in "The School for Scandal with Wyndham he toured with Ada Rehan in America, where he created the part of Robin Hood in Tennyson's "The Foresters." In 1894 he played the leading part in "The Derby Winner" at Drury Lane, and in 1895 entered into management. Amongst his many successes as actor and manager were "His Excellency the Governor," "Iris," "Treasure Island,” and “The Walls of Jericho." During his life he was instrumental in raising over 30,000l. for theatrical and war charities, and when, in 1919, the O.U.D.S. was in need of funds he gave a matinee at the New Theatre, Oxford, to put it on its feet again. He was twice married, first to Miss Violet Vanbrugh (their daughter being known on the stage as Miss Prudence Vanbrugh); and again in 1918 to Miss Kyrle Bellew, who survived him.

22. Sir Arthur Shipley, G.B.E., F.R.S., aged 66, eminent both as a zoologist and as Master of Christ's College, Cambridge, was educated at University College School and became a medical student of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Specialising later in zoology at Christ's College, Cambridge, under Balfour and Sedgwick, he took a First in both parts of the Tripos, became a Fellow of his college, and demonstrator in comparative anatomy. In 1904 he was made F.R.S. His text-book, "Zoology of the Invertebrata" became a standard work; other popular volumes were "Pearls and Parasites,” Minor Horrors of the War," and "The Voyage of a Vice-Chancellor," in which he described an official trip to America during the war. He also edited "The Cambridge Natural History (with Sir Sidney Harmer), the biological series of the Pitt Press Natural Science Manuals, and certain volumes on the fauna of British India. For many years before his death he was Cambridge University correspondent to The Times. He was elected Master of Christ's in 1910, and under him the college became one of the largest in Cambridge. Between 1917 and 1919 he was Vice-Chancellor of the University; in 1920 he received the G.B.E. for services during the war by the organisation of hospitals in Cambridge and the care of wounded officers. He was Chairman of the Marine Biological Association, a member of the Royal Commissions on the Civil Service, on the Importation of Cattle, and on Trinity College, Dublin. At one time he was sent by the Colonial Office to the Bermudas to investigate plant disease and was connected with the establishment after the war of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture at Trinidad.

22. Lord George Hamilton, aged 81, Conservative statesman, was the son of the tenth Earl and first Duke of Abercorn. He was educated at Harrow and served in the Rifle Brigade and Coldstream Guards. In the General Election of 1868 he obtained a seat for Middlesex; in 1874 Disraeli, after offering him the Under-Secretaryship of Foreign Affairs which he refused, gave him that of India. He distinguished himself at once by his defence of the measures taken by the Viceroy for coping with famine in India. From that time onward until his retirement in 1903 he occupied a prominent position in every Conservative Ministry. From 1878 to 1880 he was Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education; in 1885 he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty in Lord Salisbury's Ministry, and held the post till 1892, with the exception of a brief interval during Gladstone's Ministry. In Opposition in 1892 he took a leading part in the movement which culminated in Gladstone's resignation in 1894. In 1895 he returned to the India Office as Secretary of State. It fell to him to determine the policy regarding cotton excise duties, and in 1898 he decided on a moderate policy on frontier matters. In 1903 he resigned from the Cabinet as a free trader, and at the dissolution in 1905 did not seek re-election. From 1905 to 1909 he served as Chairman of the Royal Commission on the Poor Law and Unemployment, and during the war he was Chairman of the Mesopotamia Commission of 1917. He was a Governor of Harrow School (1913-24), Captain of Deal Castle (1899-1913), and in Masonry was Provincial Grand Master of Middlesex. In 1871 he married Lady Maud Caroline Lascelles and had three

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23. Baron von Maltzan, German Ambassador to the United States, who was killed in an aeroplane accident in Germany, was born in 1877. After studying law he transferred from the Prussian judicial to the diplomatic service in 1906. In 1910 he was appointed First Secretary in St. Petersburg, and his keen interest in Eastern affairs led to his appointment at the German Legation at Peking in 1913. He was Chargé d'Affaires there when war broke out, and took the initiative of offering, in the Emperor's name, to return Tsingtao to China. Under the Republic he received rapid advancement and became Director of the Eastern Department at the Wilhelmstrasse. He was always a firm adherent of the Eastern School," and was the protagonist of the Treaty of Rapallo. In 1922 he became Secretary of State of the Foreign Office and conducted Germany's foreign policy under Dr. Von Rosenberg and later Herr Stresemann, until 1924 when he was appointed Ambassador in Washington.

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26. Professor Liversidge, F.R.S., the distinguished chemist, who was born in 1847, entered the Royal College of Chemistry and Royal School of Mines in 1866, becoming an Associate of the Royal School of Mines in 1870. He worked under Professor Tyndall, Sir Andrew Ramsay, and Dr. Percy, and did research work in Dr. Frankland's private laboratory. In 1870 he was elected to an open scholarship in Science at Christ's College, Cambridge, and worked in the physiological laboratory then started by Professor Michael Foster. During his first year at Cambridge he held the post of demonstrator at the University Laboratory. In 1872 he accepted the Chair of Chemistry and Mineralogy in the University of Sydney, New South Wales. Here, in 1885, he founded the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science and was its Honorary Secretary for many years, and President in 1888-90. In 1874 he was made a Trustee of the Australian Museum at Sydney, collecting for it mineral and geological specimens from all parts of the world. He was Secretary of the Royal Society of New South Wales for thirteen years, President for three terms, and editor of their Journal. At Sydney University he was Dean of the Faculty of Science (which he originated in 1879) until 1904. In 1890 he founded the School of Mines in the University. In 1907 he retired with the title of Emeritus Professor. In 1882 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and was also an honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

28. Professor Willem Einthoven, the famous physiologist, was born in 1860 in the Dutch Indies. From 1870 onwards his boyhood was passed in Utrecht, where he entered the University in 1878 as a medical student. At the age of 25 he was appointed to the Chair of Physiology in Leyden, a position he retained for forty-two years. His publications-on physics, physiology, and medicine-are to be found in the journals of four languages. In 1924 he was elected honorary member of the Physiological Society, and in the following year he invited the members to hold their meeting in his laboratory at Leyden. In 1924 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine for his discovery of the mechanism of the electro-cardiogram. In 1926 he was elected to foreign membership of the Royal Society. Of his many discoveries and inventions the most famous are those connected with the electro-cardiogram and the string galvanometer.

30. Celestin-Auguste Jonnart, aged 70, French diplomatist, represented the North of France in the Chamber and in the Senate. In 1882 he was appointed private secretary to the Governor-General of Algeria, and in 1903 became Governor-General himself until the fall of M. Briand's Ministry in 1911, when he resigned the post as a gesture of association with M. Briand's ideas of political appeasement. Under M. Briand's Ministry in 1913 he held office for a brief space in charge of Foreign Affairs. In 1917 he was selected to be Chief of the Allied Missions to Greece to negotiate King Constantine's abdication, a task which was speedily accomplished. In 1921, when relations were resumed with the Vatican, he became the first French representative at the Curia. He resigned the post in 1923, the year in which he was elected a member of the Academy.

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2. Professor Svante Arrhenius, the Swedish discoverer of the theory of electrolytic dissociation, was born in 1859. After a distinguished career at Upsala University, he received the doctorate degree for a thesis in which he first propounded his great discovery. He then worked under Ostwald at Riga, and later under Kohlrausch and Boltzmann in Germany, proceeding in due course to Amsterdam as first foreign student of the physico-chemical laboratory. In 1887 he joined Ostwald at Leipzig, and his classical paper on electrolytic dissociation appeared in the Zeitschrift für physikalische Chemie. In 1891 he accepted a lectureship at Stockholm, becoming Professor of Physics there in 1895; and also the position of Rector of the University for several years. In 1903 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics, and two years later he was appointed Director of the Nobel Institute for Physical Chemistry in Stockholm. In 1910 the Royal Society elected him a Foreign member; he had already been awarded the Davy Medal in 1902. He held honorary degrees of various universities, and was an honorary member of the Chemical and Physical Societies of London and the Royal Institution, also of various learned societies of America and Europe. His best-known work, "Worlds in the Making," was translated into English in 1908. Other works were The Destinies of the Stars,"" Quantitative Laws in Biological Chemistry," and "Immuno-Chemistry."

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4. Charles Morris Woodford, C.M.G., aged 74, explorer, naturalist, and anthropologist, who administered the British Solomon Islands, was educated at Tonbridge. He first went to the Western Pacific as a collector for the Rothschild Museum at Tring, exploring the Melanesian Islands for about ten years, and visiting the Solomon Islands in 1886, 1887, and 1888. In 1895 he was made Acting Consul and Deputy Commissioner at Samoa, and in 1896 was appointed first Resident Commissioner in the Solomon Islands, which had been placed under British Protectorship in 1893. He proclaimed the Protectorate and hoisted the British flag in 1900, and soon acquired an extraordinary ascendancy over the

natives, practically stamping out head-hunting and the murdering of white people. His administration resulted in a great impetus to trade, and coconut planting was undertaken on a large scale. In 1912 he was created C.M.G., and he retired in 1915. He was a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, a member of the British Ornithologists' Union and the Hakluyt Society. In 1889 he married Florence Palmer of Bathurst, N.S.W. He had two sons, of whom one survived him.

7. Lord Iveagh (Edward Cecil Guinness, first Earl of Iveagh), aged 80, was the third son of Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness, M.P., who died in 1868, leaving his sons a joint share in the famous brewery at Dublin. After taking his degree at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1870, he devoted himself to the family business and to the interests of Dublin. In 1876 he was High Sheriff of the City, and in 1885 of the County. In that year he was created baronet, and as a Unionist unsuccessfully contested the St. Stephen's Green division of Dublin. On the incorporation of the brewery in 1886 as Arthur Guinness, Son & Co., Ltd., Sir Edward became Chairman. In 1889, while remaining Chairman, he withdrew from the active management, marking the event by a gift of a quarter million pounds for the erection of dwellings for the poor in London and Dublin. He also presented the Lister Institute in London with the sum of 250,000l. for bacteriological research. In 1891 he was created Baron Iveagh of Iveagh, Co. Down, and five years later he was installed as a Knight of St. Patrick in Dublin Castle. He was responsible during the South African War for the equipment and maintenance of the Irish Field Hospital, and he made two gifts of 50,000l. to Dublin hospitals on the occasions of Royal visits. In 1905 he was made a Viscount and settled in Suffolk at Elveden Hall. In 1908 he was elected Chancellor of Dublin University, and in 1909 the Nationalist Corporation of Dublin presented him with an address of thanks for his generosity to their city. He was offered but declined the Lord Mayoralty. In 1919 he was made Earl of Iveagh and Viscount Elveden; in 1925 he purchased the Ken Wood Estate for the nation; in 1906 he was elected F.R.S., and was honorary LL.D. of Dublin and Aberdeen, and in 1919 he was created G.C.V.O. In 1873 he married his cousin Adelaide Maud, daughter of the late Mr. Richard Samuel Guinness, M.P., who died in 1916. Three sons survived him.

12. Dr. Benjamin Daydon Jackson, aged 82, distinguished botanist, became a Fellow of the Linnean Society before he was twenty-two, and acted as its secretary and as member of its council from 1882 to 1902. For many years he was engaged on the "Index Kewensis," a vast index of plants the idea for which originated with Darwin, but which was carried out in the main by Dr. Jackson. Other works of his are: "Linnæus, the Story of his Life" (1923), "Notes on a Catalogue of the Linnean Herbarium" (1922), "Catalogue of Linnean Specimens of Zoology" (1913); also biographies of George Bentham, John Gerard, and Dr. William Turner. He was honorary Ph.D. of Upsala and, since 1907, was a Knight of the Swedish Order of the Polar Star. In 1916 he was appointed to the newly-created post of Curator of the Linnean Society collections.

13. William le Queux, aged 63, novelist, was the son of Mr. William le Queux of Chateauroux. After studying art in the Quartier Latin he travelled widely, and studied criminology and the secret service system in many countries in order to equip himself for the writing of sensational stories. In 1891 he joined the staff of the Globe, but resigned in 1893, and resumed his travels. He was correspondent of the Daily Mail in the Balkan War; in 1908 the Daily Mail published his most famous story, "The Invasion of 1910," in which he was assisted by Lord Roberts. He was President of the Wireless Experimental Association, and a member of the Institute of Radio Engineers. He claimed to be the first wireless experimenter to broadcast from his station at Guildford in 1920-21. In 1923 he published a book of reminiscences, "Things I Know."