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BARNES, the Honourable J. Edmes- tone, engineer. B. (British West Indies) 1857. Ed. Kingston University School and Leipzig University. After qualifying as a land surveyor and civil engineer, Mr. Barnes entered the ministry of the African Methodist Church. In a few years he perceived the errors of Christian theology, and returned to his profession, practising in the British West Indies and South America. After further study and practice in Europe, he was appointed Surveyor General to the Eepublic of Liberia. A few years later he returned to Europe and completed his training in Germany. He travelled over the Continent, and was entertained by the Mayor of Vienna and other distinguished men. He then prac tised as a civil engineer and metallurgist in South Africa, and presently became Director of Public Works in Liberia. He afterwards spent some years in America, agitating for the education of the Africans, and he is now managing director of a mining syndicate in Sierra Leone. Mr. Barnes is one of the ablest representatives of the African race he is widely known in native Africa as &quot; the great man &quot; and a man of considerable culture. He is an accomplished linguist, and has written The Economy of Life (in which his Ration alist views are strongly expressed) and a few other works. He is a member of the Eationalist Press Association.

BETHELL, Richard, first Baron West- bury, Lord Chancellor. B. June 30, 1800. Ed. Corsharn School, Bristol, and Oxford (Wadham College). He matriculated at the age of fourteen, and graduated, with first-class honours in classics and second in mathematics, at the age of nineteen. 921

He was elected to a fellowship of Wadham College. In 1823 he was called to the Bar (Middle Temple), and he soon attained a high reputation by practice in the Equity Courts. He took silk in 1840, and it is estimated that in 1841, when he was leader of the Chancery Bar, his income amounted to 20,000 a year. From 1851 to 1859 he was Member of Parliament for Aylesbury, and in 1859 he was elected for Wolverhampton. He strongly advocated the abolition of Church rates and univer sity tests, and pleaded for the admission of Jews to Parliament. In 1851 he became Vice-Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, in 1852 Solicitor General, and in 1856 Attorney General. In 1857 he rendered great service by forcing through the House, in spite of violent opposition, the Divorce and Matrimonial Bill ; and he made other great reforms in law. He was appointed Lord Chancellor, with the title of Baron Westbury, in 1861. Three years later he was on the judicial committee of the Privy Council which heard the appeal on the Essays and Reviews case. His legal biographer in the Dictionary of National Biography says that he gave the verdict against the orthodox &quot; with keen relish,&quot; and quotes the epitaph which was humorously suggested for him : &quot; He took away from orthodox members of the Church of England their last hope of ever lasting damnation.&quot; In the House of Lords he afterwards used scathing language about the bishops for condemning the book in Convocation, almost threatening them with prosecution. He gave even greater offence by describing a pronouncement of a Church Synod as &quot; a sentence so oily and saponaceous that no one can grasp it.&quot; He retired in 1865. Lord Westbury s 922