On the 1st, aged 72, the Right Hon. Sir Ralph Thompson, K.C.B., who had been Under-Secretary of State for War, 1878-95. On the 1st, Commander Charles Frederick Hill, who took a distinguished part in naval warfare in the Baltic in 1854, and afterwards in China and in Paraguay. He was honourably mentioned in despatches and on seven occasions gazetted for services in face of the enemy. On the 1st, aged 80, Dr. James Laird Patterson, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Emmaus, a convert to Roman Catholicism in 1850. On the 2nd, aged 82, John Hungerford Pollen, who, after being a Fellow of Merton in the forties, and Vicar of St. Saviour's, Leeds, in the fifties, seceded to the Church of Rome. He was an intimate friend of Thackeray, an authority on Fine Arts, of which for some years he was Professor in Cardinal Newman's Dublin Roman Catholic University, and on which he wrote in the latest volumes of the "Encyclopædia Britannica." He painted the roof of Merton College Chapel when Fellow, and in 1857 cooperated with Rossetti and Burne-Jones in the decoration of the Oxford Union. On the 3rd, Sir Frank Green, Bart., one of the senior Aldermen of the City of London, and Lord Mayor in the year of his Majesty's accession. He took an active part in City business, and during his mayoralty instituted the national me

morial to Queen Victoria, which reached 230,000l. On the 3rd, Heinrichs Landsmann ("Hieronymus Lorm "), a distinguished Austrian poet, who lost his hearing in youth and also became blind. He was the inventor of a special finger language, by which he was able to dictate his verse, which was remarkable not less for its pessimism than for its beauty of form. On the 4th, aged 77, Major-General Robert Bruce Chichester, who did good service in the Mutiny, and later with the Kaibar column in the Afghan War of 1878-79, when he won the C.B. On the 4th, Alexander Mackay, LL.D., the author of various educational works, the chief being "Foreign Systems of Education." On the 5th, the Right Rev. Edward Hyndman Beckles, formerly Bishop of Sierra Leone and a well-known London clergyman, who held the vicarage of St. Peter's, Bethnal Green. On the 6th, Major-General H. T. Oldfield, whose life from 1849 to 1882 was spent in various Indian campaigns and in the suppression of the Mutiny, in which he served with distinction. On the 7th, aged 63, at Washington, Thomas B. Reed, a great and patriotic American Parliamentarian. For several years he was Speaker of the House of Representatives, in which his masterful methods restored orderly procedure, and set up rules which, though challenged by the Democrats, were sustained by the Supreme Court, and are now recognised and enforced by both parties. On the 7th, from suicide on board a Cunard liner, Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Lamb, a famous rifle shot. He had served with distinction on the Tugela, where he was wounded and lost an eye. On the 8th, Colonel Harry Leslie Blundell McCalmont, C.B., Conservative Member for the Stowmarket Division of Cambridgeshire, inheritor of the estate of the late Hugh McCalmont (which was estimated at 3,000,000l.), owner of the famous race horse Isinglass, and a very well-known figure on the Turf and in the yachting world. On the 8th, in London, Graf Wilhelm von Schlieffen auf Schlieffenberg Mecklenburg, well known for his ambulance work during the Franco-Prussian War, and as a scientific agriculturist in Germany. On the 10th, aged 84, General William F. Nuthall. In the Burmese War of 1852 he had gained much distinction. On the 10th, His Highness Raja Bije Sain Bahadur, Rajah of Mandi. He was born in 1846, and succeeded to the throne as a boy of eleven. He was one of the most able and loyal of the Indian Princes. On the 10th, aged 91, the Rev. Frederick Aubert Gace, Vicar of Barling, Essex, and author of the notorious "Gace's Catechism." On the 11th, Dr. Samuel Fenwick, an eminent physician, associated for many years with the London Hospital. On the 12th, Professor Harry Livingstone Withers, occupant of the Chair of Education at Owens College, Manchester, and a recognised authority upon the theory and practice of education. On the 12th, aged 91, Dr. James Cornwell, a famous educationist; from 1846-56 Principal of the Borough Road Normal College, and author of many school books which for many years had a great vogue. On the 13th, aged 76, William Killigrew Watt, formerly a prominent citizen of Bristol, who had represented Gloucester in Parliament as a Conservative, 1873-80. On the 13th, aged 80, General Sir Crawford Trotter Chamberlain. Served in the Afghanistan Campaign of 1839-42, and in the Punjab in 1848-9 (mentioned in despatches and brevetmajority). During the Indian Mutiny he greatly distinguished himself in the disarmament of native regiments, and was thanked by the Government, and promoted Lieutenant-Colonel. On the 17th, Sir Edward Stock Hill, a prominent shipowner and successful advocate of telegraphic communication between lighthouses and lightships round the British coast. On the 21st, the Very Rev. William R. W. Stephens, Dean of Winchester. Born, 1839; was a moderate High Churchman and Liberal. He published various works, notably a biography of his father-in-law, Dean Hook, and an excellent history of the Church under the Norman and Angevin Kings, which was his personal contribution to the valuable continuous history of the English Church from the earliest times, which he was editing with the Rev. W. Hunt. On the 24th, at an advanced age, Sir Arthur Hodgson, who in the forties took a prominent part in developing the Colony of Queensland. He was a Shakespearian scholar, and for many years lived at Stratford-on-Avon, where he made the preservation of the Shakespeare memorials his special care. On the 27th, aged 80, Dr. R. F. Weymouth, the first to pass (in 1869) the London University examination for the degree of Doctor of Literature; was headmaster of Mill Hill School from 1869-86, since which he devoted himself to literary work, his writings being mainly philological. On the 28th, the Right Rev. John Wogan Festing, the Bishop of St. Albans. Dr. Festing was born in 1837, and graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge. After serving for several years as curate in Westminster, he was given the Vicarage of Christ Church, Albany Street, and on the resignation of Dr. Claughton in 1890 was preferred to the See of St. Albans, which had been declined by Canon Liddon. Dr. Festing, who was a bachelor, proved an admirable administrator of the diocese,

and was widely esteemed. On the 28th, Samuel Wasse Higginbottom, Conservative M.P. for the West Derby Division of Liverpool. He was a colliery owner and shipowner, and a Wesleyan. On the 30th, Samuel Danks Waddy, K.C., Recorder of Sheffield. Mr. Waddy was a Wesleyan and a Liberal, who spent many years in Parliament, and combined local preaching with a large practice at the bar, and with keen devotion to politics. He was the son of a Wesleyan minister, and was born in 1830. On the 31st, Karl von Crämer, leader of the Liberal party in Bavaria, who raised himself from the status of a factory hand to a position of much wealth and influence in politics. He was one of the most eloquent speakers in Germany. On the 31st, Dr. Max Schede, Professor of Surgery at the Bonn University, and during the Franco-German War the introducer of sublimate as an antiseptic in surgery. In December, aged 72, Major J. T. Collier, a pioneer of the Volunteer movement and a man who had for many years devoted himself to the welfare of destitute lads in London and to various philanthropic enterprises. In December, at Ballarat, aged 72, Robert Malachy Sergeant, a pioneer of the Australian gold industry and manager of the famous Band of Hope Mine. In December, Major Edward Peach, Indian Staff Corps, and D.A.Q.M.G. on the Headquarter Staff; wounded with the Burmese Expedition of 1885-8; mentioned in despatches and made brevet-major for services as Chief of Staff to Sir F. Carrington in the late war; author of "Savage Warfare," a book officially recommended to the Army and subsequently adopted as a text-book for infantry training. In December, aged 62, Thomas Nast, who, born in Bavaria, was taken to the United States in childhood, and became celebrated as a caricaturist, in which capacity he powerfully contributed to the exposure of the abuses prevalent under the "Tweed Ring" in New York, 1870-5. In December, at Shanghai, the Rev. Ange Zottoli, S.J., the author of a dictionary of the Chinese language and a Chinese scholar who enjoyed a high reputation even among the literati of the Empire. In December, at Davos Platz, aged 28, Lucius Henry Gwynn, Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, and a noted cricketer and Rugby football player. In December, while at sea, off Aden, Henry Verney, tenth Lord Willoughby de Broke, a famous master of the Warwickshire hounds. Born 1844; M., 1867, a dau. of James H. Smith-Barry. In December, at Washington, Major Walter Reed, an American Army surgeon who conducted experiments in Cuba with regard to mosquitoes as the cause of yellow fever infection, with the result that sanitary measures were taken, practically stopping that disease in Havana.

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