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Rh assistant director of the W.R.W.S. she also did useful work in the war, and was given the O.B.E.

WALLENBERG, KNUT AGATON (1853- ), Swedish states- man, was born in 1853, the eldest son of Andre Oscar Wallenberg (1816-1886), who in 1856 founded Stockholms Enskilda Bank. He went through the training of a naval officer, but in 1874 joined the directorate of the bank, was managing director during the years 1886-1911, and became chairman in 1917. This bank, under the control of K. A. Wallenberg and his brother Marcus, a prominent place in the Swedish banking world and in the dustrial life of the country. Through their good connexions iroad both brothers contributed much toward enabling Sweden establish good economic relations with other countries. Both ,ve played an important role in the developing of the iron-ore .dustry in northern Sweden. K. A. Wallenberg, in conjunction with the Credit Lyormais, introduced Swedish bonds into the French market in 1890, and during two decades he cooperated powerfully in taking up Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Finnish state loans. In the Banque d'Etat de Maroc, which resulted from the Algeciras Conference, K. A. Wallenberg had a hand as member of the governing board in Paris, a position in which he succeeded in 1920 by his brother Marcus. K. A. Wallenberg concerned in the founding of the Banque des Pays du Nord Paris in 1911, and also in that of the British Bank of Northern mmerce in London in 1912, which in 1920 was amalgamated with C. J. Hambro & Son as Hambro's Bank of Northern Com- lerce, known as Hambro's Bank Ltd. since July i 1921. He ,s a member of the town council of Stockholm from 1883-1914, member of the First Chamber of the Riksdag from 1906-19, chairman of the Swedish Bankers' Association (" Svenska bankforening ") from 1909-14, and a member of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce from 1912-4 and again from 1918 on- wards. He was one of the founders of the commercial high school (" Handelshogskolan ") in Stockholm and its first donor. When Hammarskjold formed -his Government in 1914 (see SWEDEN), K. A. Wallenberg joined it as Foreign Minister, retaining this post until 1917. In 1918 he and his wife devoted 25 million kroner to the " Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation," the purpose of which was to further religious, social, scientific and educative movements and to support trade and industry. ' His brother, MARCUS WALLENBERG (1864- ), became an officer in the navy, and, after juridical 'studies and practice, joined the directorate of Stockholms Enskilda Bank and became managing director 1911-20, and later chairman. He founded or reorganized a large number of industrial enterprises, taking a chief part, for instance, in the financing of the mining-fields of northern Sweden, and founding in 1905 Norsk Hydro-elektrisk Kvaelstof Aktieselskab in Norway, of which he became chair- man. He was one of the founders of the Norwegian Central Bank, of the Swedish Bankers' Association, and the Industrial Union of Sweden (" Sveriges industriforbund "), besides having taken the initiative in founding the Taxpayers' Association (" Skatte- betalarnes forening ") in 1920. He became a member of several committees on banking and stock exchange questions, and a member of the Economic Council. The Swedish Government sent him to London as Swedish negotiator in 1916-7 and 1917-8 for bringing about an agreement with the Allied Powers regarding trade and shipping and finance questions. He was a member of the Neutral Powers' financial section of the Supreme Economic Council from Feb. to June 1919 in Paris, took part in the meeting at Amsterdam in 1919 which arranged for the International Financial Conference in Brussels in 1920, at which he was Sweden's representative. He was a member of the Committee of the Economic and Financial section of the League of Nations. WALLER, LEWIS (1860-1915), English actor (see 28.283), died at Nottingham whilst on tour Nov. i 1915, shortly after making a striking success at Wyndham's theatre, London, in Gamblers All. His wife, whose stage name was Florence West, died Nov. 14 1912.

WALSH, WILLIAM JOHN (1841-1921), Roman Catholic Arch-bishop of Dublin, was born in Dublin Jan. 30 1841, and was educated at St. Laurence O'Toole's seminary, Dublin, afterwards entering the Catholic University and St. Patrick's College, Maynooth. In 1867 he became professor of dogmatic and moral theology at Maynooth, was appointed vice-president of the col- lege in 1878, and in 1881 succeeded Dr. Russell as its president. Four years later he became Archbishop of Dublin on the death of Dr. McCabe. Archbishop Walsh, besides being an energetic worker and writer, was a keen politician, and was conspicuous for his extreme Nationalist opinions. He was one of the witnesses before the Parnell Commission of 1888-9, an d served on many committees and boards, chiefly educational, becoming in 1891 a commissioner of education in Ireland. He would have nothing to do with the suggestion for settling the difficulty of Catholic higher education in Ireland by establishing a Roman Catholic faculty of theology in Trinity College, an institution which he attacked as a centre of Protestant influence, and insisted on the need for a university with a " Catholic atmosphere." In 1908 he became a member of the Dublin Statutory Commission ap- pointed under the Irish University Act, which established the Catholic National University, of which he became chancellor.

In proportion as the Nationalist party seemed disposed to compromise with the Government, Dr. Walsh drew away from it; and after the concessions made to Ulster in 1914, and more especially after the rebellion of 1916, he threw his influence more and more on to the side of the extremists. In the election of Dec. 1918 he voted for a Sinn Fein republican candidate.

Dr. Walsh produced various volumes of addresses on religious and educational subjects, and also published A Plain Exposition of the Irish Land Act of 1881 (1881) ; The Queen's Colleges and the Royal University of Ireland (1883-4); The Irish University Ques- tion (1897); and two attacks on Trinity College, Dublin, Trinity College and the University of Dublin (1902) and Trinity College and its Medical School (1906). He died in Dublin April 9 1921.

WALSINGHAM, THOMAS DE GREY, 6th BARON (1843-1919), was born July 29 1843. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and succeeded his father in 1870. He was an enthusiastic entomologist and sportsman, and for some years travelled widely, making collections of specimens of all sorts, many of which he presented to the natural history section of the British Museum. In 1876 he was made a trustee of the British Museum ; he was also a fellow of many learned societies and high steward of the university of Cambridge. He died Dec. 3 1919.

WARBURG, PAUL MORITZ (1868- ), American banker, was born in Hamburg, Aug. 10 1868. After graduating from the Realgymnasium in 1886 he entered a banking house. From 1889 to 1892 he studied banking in England and France; then for the next ten years was engaged in the banking business in Hamburg. In 1902 he went to New York, where he became a member of the banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. He was naturalized in 1911. He was an early advocate of a centralized banking system in the United States and in 1914 was appointed by President Wilson one of the original members of the Federal Reserve Board. In 1916 he was appointed vice-governor of this board, suc- ceeding Frederick A. Delano, and in 1917 was reappointed. In 1918, at the end of the period of his appointment, he retired, wishing to relieve the Administration of any embarrassment that might follow his renomination. Considerable opposition to his holding the place had arisen after America's entrance into the World War, because of his German birth. On accepting the Government office he had resigned from Kuhn, Loeb & Co., as well as from numerous directorates, including the National Bank of Commerce, the U.S. Mortgage & Trust Co., Wells, Fargo & Co., the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., the B. & 0. R.R. Co., the National Railways of Mexico, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He was the author of Essays on Bank- ing Reform in the United States (1914).

WARD, SIR ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- ), English man of letters (see 28.319), was knighted in 1913. His history Germany iSig-iSgo (ist vol. 1916, 2nd vol. 1917) was a notable addition to his published works, together with various chapters in the Cambridge History of English Literature.

WARD, GENEVIEVE (1837- ), English actress, was born in New York March 27 1837, the daughter of Col. Samuel Ward,