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the railways. On the 25th, at Pau, aged 70, Colonel Theophilus John Levett, of Wyohnor, Staffordshire. Entered the 1st Life Guards, 1847; Colonel Com- mandant of the Staffordshire Yeomanry; sat as a Conservative for Lichfield, 1880-5. Married, 1856, Lady Jane Feilding, daughter of first Earl of Denbigh. On the 25th, at Athens, aged 65, Andreas Syngros, a Greek banker, politician and philanthropist. Bequeathed the bulk of his fortune, valued at 30,000,000 drachms, to national and charitable objects. On the 25th, at London, aged 69, Rot. Charles Boteler Pocock, Commander, R.N. Entered the Royal Navy, 1847 ; was present and severely wounded at the capture of Pegu, 1850, and saw much service on the West Coast of Africa, etc. ; took Deacon's Orders in the Diocese of Ontario, 1884; Organising Secretary of the Society of the Treasury of God, Toronto, 1885-8. On the 25th, at the Rectory, St. Magnus the Martyr, London Bridge, aged 66, Rev. Alexander Israel H'Caul, son of Dr. Alexander M'Caul, D.D. Educated at Merchant Taylors' School and King's College, London ; appointed Rector of St. Magnus, 1868 ; Lecturer in Hebrew and Divinity, King's College, London, 1861. On the 25th, at Lennox Gardens, S.W., aged 54, Dowager Countess of Sefton, Cecily Emily Jolliffe, daughter of first Lord Hylton. Married, 1866, fourth Earl of Sefton. On the 26th, at London, aged 90, Sir Henry Delves Rroughton, ninth baronet, of Doddington Park, Nantwich and Broughton Hall, Staffordshire. High Sheriff of Staffordshire, 1859. Married, 1857, Eliza Florence Alexandrina, daughter of Louis Rosengweig. On the 26th, at Chatham, aged 62, Sarah Thome, an actress of considerable repute, and one of a family closely con- nected with the stage. On the 26th, at Hove, aged 71, Right Key. Herbert Bree, D.D., son of John Bree, of Emerald, Keswick. Educated at Bury School and Caius College, Cambridge ; B.A., 1850 ; Rector of Harkstead, Suffolk, 1858-68 ; of Brampton, Hunts, 1870-82; consecrated Bishop of Barbadoos, 1882. Married, first, 1850, Jane Sarah, daughter of Rev. E. Rust D'Eye, of Drinkstone; and second, 1866, Mary, daughter of William Newland, of Bramley, Guildford. On the 26th, at Vienna, aged 92, Count Johann Bernhard von Rechberg und Bothen- lowen. Entered the Austrian Diplomatic Service, 1828 ; Minister at Stockholm, 1841; Civil Administrator of Lombardy, 1858; Austrian Representative at the Federal Diet, Frankfurt, 1855, where he was Bismarck's chief opponent ; Prime Minister, 1859, and Foreign Secretary, 1859-64. On the 26th, at Minchinhampton, aged 89, Charles Robert Baynes, son of Colonel Charles Baynes, R.A. Born at Woolwich ; educated at Charterhouse ; entered the Madras Civil Service, 1829, and became Judge of the High Court and President of the Board of Examiners ; retired, 1859, and took an active part in local politics in Gloucestershire ; author of a " Ramble in the East," etc. On the 27th, at Hanover, aged 91, Professor WAiwrinh p. Wustenfeld, a distinguished Orientalist. Educated at Gdttingen, where he was for many years Professor; author of numerous works on Arabic literature, etc. On the 28th, at Cava dei Tirreni, Italy, aged 72, Lieutenant- General Henry George Woods. Entered the Army, 1848, 8th Regiment, and afterwards in 97th ; served in the Crimean Campaign, 1854-5 ; commanded the storming party of the Redan and was wounded; commanded in the Belfast District, 1858-8.

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Lord Herschen, G.O.R., P.C. — Farrer Herschell, the son of Rev. Ridley H. HerBchell, a Nonconformist minister converted from Judaism, was born in December, 1887, and was educated at the University of Bonn and Uni- versity College, London, graduating at London in 1857. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1860, and joined the Northern Circuit, attaching himself on its subdivision to the North Eastern Circuit. He was made Q.C. in 1872, at the comparatively early age of thirty-five, owing to the reputation he had acquired in commercial law. In 1874 he was returned as a Liberal for Durham, and retained his seat for

that citv until 1886. Shortly after- wards he was made Recorder of Carlisle, and in 1876 married Agnes Adela, daughter of Edward Leigh Kindersley, and granddaughter of the Vice-Chancellor. He speedily acquired a parliamentary reputation both as a speaker and a debater, and it was therefore with little surprise that his appointment to the Solicitor General- ship in 1880 was received, but having as his colleague, Sir Henry James, for Attorney General, he had little oppor- tunity of distinguishing himself in the House of Commons, but was able to devote himself almost wholly to his profession, where the point and clear-