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session of Rome in 1084. Henry was then driven from Rome by Robert Guiscard, the duke of Apulia, but t-he city was left in so wretched a condition that Gregory finally had to withdraw to Salerno, where he died, May 25, 1085. His dying words were: "I have loved justice and hated iniquity; therefore I die in exile." See Milman's Latin Christianity.

Qrenfell (gren'fgl), George, African missionary and explorer, was born at Mount Bay, near Penzance, England, on Aug. 21, 1849. After study at the Bristol Baptist College he was sent to Kamerun by the Baptist Missionary Society in 1874 and to the Congo in 1876. He discovered Edra Falls in the Kamerun in 1876, the meeting of the Mobangi and Congo Rivers in 1884, and from 1884 to 1886 made a track-survey of 2,000 miles along previously unknown waterways of the upper Congo system, for which he received the gold medal of the Royal Geographical society. He was royal commissioner for the delimitation of the Lunda frontier between the Congo Free State and Portuguese West Africa and secretary of the commission for the protection of the natives of the Congo Free State. He died in 1906.

Qrenfell, Wilfrid T. The first doctor to go to the fisherman. He has lived 12 years among them on the German Ocean and the Labrador coast. His name is inseparably connected with the Labrador Deep-Sea Mission. He first came to Labrador in 1892 in the mission-ship Albert. Through his instrumentality two well-equipped hospitals, one at Battle Harbor and one at Indian Harbor, have been erected. In them thousands of patients have been treated. Two yachts have been presented to him for mission-work. His heroism in braving the perils of that stormy coast in pursuit of his philanthropic work has won for him universal respect and admiration.

Gres'ham, Walter Quinton, American politician, was born near Lanesville, Ind., March 17, 1832, and died at Washington, D. C., May 28, 1895. Educated at Bloom-ington University, he was admitted to the bar, and in 1860 became member of the Indiana legislature. On the outbreak of the Civil War he retired from the legislature, and served gallantly with Sherman, was wounded at Atlanta, and retired with the brevet rank of major-general in the volunteers. From 1869 to 1882 he was United States judge for the district of Indiana, when he became postmaster-general under President Arthur, exchanging this post, on the death of Secretary Folger (Sept. 1884), for the secretaryship of the treasury. This, in the same year, he resigned to accept the office of United States judge for the 7th circuit, exchanging this post in 1893 to enter President Cleveland's cabinet as secretary of state.

Gret'na Green, a village in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, near the head of Solway Firth, made famous by the number of runaway marriages that used to be celebrated there. This was a great resort for that purpose as early as 1771, sometimes as many as 200 couples a year being married at the toll-house. In 1856 all marriages celebrated there were rendered invalid, unless one of the parties had resided for at least three weeks in Scotland.

Greuze (grez), Jean Baptiste, a French painter, was born at Tournus, Aug. 21, 1725. He received instruction in art from Grom-don in Lyons, afterwards going to Paris to study at the Academy. A Father explaining the Bible to His children created much comment, and his Blind Man Cheated admitted him to the Academy as an associate. Greuze now proceeded to Italy, exhibiting several Italian subjects on his return to Paris in 1757, but having failed to comply with the rules of the Academy he was barred from exhibiting there. In 1769 his Severus reproaching Caracalla caused his partial reinstatement, but he refused to accept it, and died in poverty at Paris, March 21, 1805. He is seen at his best in such fancy studies of girls as The Broken Picture, Innocence and Girl With Doves.

Gre'vy (grd-vef), Francois Paul Jules, was born in Mont-sous-Vaudrey, France, Aug. 15, 1807. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in Paris, where he became prominent through his defense of republican political prisoners. After the revolution of 1848 he was returned to the assembly from his native department, and became prominent as a speaker. His debates on the constitution and his opposition to the government of Louis Napoleon marked his career, until he retired when the second empire was established. In 1869 he again became a deputy, and was elected president of the assembly in 1871, 1876, 1877 and 1879. In 1879, upon the resignation of McMahon, Grevy was elected president of the republic, but his term was not marked by any particular achievement. Re-elected in 1885, he resigned on Dec. 2, 1887, living a retired life until his death,Sept. 9, 1891.

Grey, Albert Henry George, Fourth Earl, Viscount Howick of the County of Northumb e r 1 a n d (England), was Dorn 1851 and educated at Harrow and Trinity Col-          EARL GREY