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appointed to the Royal Artillery, 1849 ; served through the Crimean Campaign, 1854-5, where he was wounded. Married, 1884, Marie Charlotte, daughter of Alexander Puruckherr, of Altenburg. On the 18th, at Washington, aged 66, Nelson Dingley, Chairman of Committee of Ways and Means of the House of Representatives. Born at Durham, Maine; graduated at Dartmouth Univer- sity, 1855; admitted to the Bar, 1856; proprietor and editor of the Lewiston, Me., Journal, 1859-80; Member of the Maine Legislature, 1862-78; Speaker, 1868-4, and Governor of the State, 1874-5; elected to Congress, 1881, as a Republican; devoted himself to ourrenoy and commercial subjects; was the chief promoter of the Dingley Tariff. On the 14th, at Sydenham, aged 79, Thomas Splnks, Q.C., D.O.L., a distinguished ecclesiastical lawyer, son of W. Spinks, of the Tower. Educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St. John's College, Oxford ; admitted as an Advocate at Doctors' Commons, 1849 ; called to the Bar at the Inner Temple, 1858 ; Q.C., 1866. On the 15th, at Montreal, aged 89, Charles Chiniquy, "the apostle of temperanoe." Born in the Province of Quebec; educated for the priesthood and ordained, 1838; joined the Oblate Fathers and gave himself up to the temperance cause, and was said to have persuaded 200,000 to become abstainers; migrated with 10,000 of his fellow- countrymen to Illinois and settled at Kankakee, 1851 ; left the Church of Rome with a large following, 1858 ; returned to Quebec, where his presence produced serious riots and he was wounded ; became a Presbyterian Minister and a strong partisan, often arousing serious disturbances by his addresses in Canada, Nova Scotia and Australia ; was a constant traveller and active mountain climber at the age of 87. On the 16th, at Dunsany Castle, Co. Meath, aged 45, Lord Dunsany, John William Plunkett, seventeenth Baron Dunsany. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge; M.A., 1873; sat in the House of Commons as a Conservative for South Gloucestershire, 1886-92 ; Representative Peer for Ireland, 1893. Married, 1877, Erule, daughter of Colonel Francis Plunkett-Barton, Cold- stream Guards. On the 16th, at Selham Rectory, Sussex, aged 86, Rev. Robert Blackburn. Educated at Balliol College, Oxford ; B. A., 1834 (First Class Lit. Hum.) ; Fellow of Brasenose, 1834-44 ; Rector of Selham, 1844. On the 17th, at Rome, aged 62, Hon. Edward Brownlow, son of first Baron Lurgan. Entered the Army, 1854, and served with Scots Fusilier Guards in the Crimea, 1855. Married, 1861, H&ene, daughter of John Hardy, of H.M. Consular Service. On the 18th, at Edinburgh, aged 94, Admiral John Hay, son of James Hay, of Seggieden, Perth- shire. Entered the Royal Navy, 1819; served in the Greek War, 1828; the Chinese War, 1840-1. On the 18th, at Bristol, aged 46, John Martin Kftaxriok. Born at Dunning ; educated at Dollar and Perth Academies and at Edinburgh University ; Resident Engineer at Cardiff Docks, 1880 ; Great Eastern Railway, 1882 ; Bristol Docks, 1885, where he executed several important improvements ; designed the new docks at Portishead and Avonmouth, etc. On the 19th, at Aberdeen, aged 54, Professor Henry Alleyne Nicholson, son of John Nicholson, D.D., of Penrith. Educated at the Universities of Gottingen and Edinburgh ; appointed Lecturer on Natural History at Edinburgh, 1869 ; Professor at Toronto, 1871 ; Professor of Biology and Physiology in the University of Durham, 1874 ; of Natural History at St. Andrews, 1875 ; and Regius Professor of Natural History at Aberdeen, 1882 ; author of geological works, etc. On the 20th, at Brighton, aged 72, Sir Frederic Henry Sykes, fifth baronet. Educated at Eton ; entered the Army, 1844 ; served with 11th Hussars and Royal Horse Guards. Married, 1867, Caroline, daughter of J. Bettesworth, of Hayling, Hants. On the 21st, at Oporto, aged 69, Cardinal Americo Ferreira dos Santos Silva, Bishop of Oporto and Confessor to the Royal Family of Portugal. On the 22nd, at St. Petersburg, aged 63, Michael Nlkololwich Anneukoff, descended from a noble family of Nijni- Novgorod. Educated in the Imperial Corps of Pages ; passed with distinction through the Military Academy, and was appointed to the Guards' Staff Corps ; was appointed Assistant Minister of Police in Poland, 1863-6 ; Chief Director of Railway Troops Transport ; commanded the Reserves in the Russo-Turkish War, 1877-8 ; and after 1880 was chief constructor of the railway from the Caspian to Samarkand ; Member of the Supreme Military Council, 1893. On the 22nd, at Tottenham, aged 79, Samuel Swarbrlck. Began life in a subordinate position on the Manchester and Leeds Railway, 1838, and afterwards on the Lancashire and Yorkshire, and rose to be accountant, and from 1851 held the same post in the Midland Railway, and was General Manager of the Great Eastern Railway, 1866-80. On the 22nd, at Queen's Gate, Kensington, aged 71, Earl Poulett, William Henry Poulett, sixth earl, son of Vice-Admiral Hon. George Poulett. Educated at Sandhurst College; entered the Army, 1845; served with 22nd Regiment. Married, first, 1849, Elizabeth Lavinia, daughter of J. Newman;