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ness of his arguments, and the natural quickness of his mind, gave him a prominent position as an advocate.

When Mr. Gladstone returned to office in 1886, he found neither Lord Selborne nor Sir Henry James willing to accept his views on Irish Home Rule, and the Lord Chancellorship was con- sequently offered to Sir Farrer Her- schell, who thus reached the woolsack just after he had entered upon his forty-ninth year. His Chancellorship on this occasion lasted barely six months, but on the succession of Lord Salisbury to power Lord Herschell took up an important position on the Opposition side of the House. He steadily opposed the appointment of the Special Commision on Mr. Parnell, and endeavoured 'as far as possible to modify the terms of reference. His chief labours, however, were those of a Law Lord of the Supreme Court of Appeal. His judgments were rather precise than polished, but they carried conviction that he applied all the subtlety of his intellect in forming them. Foremost among these should be mentioned Derry v. Peek, which determined the liability of directors; the Yagliano case dealing with ficti- tious accepters of bills of exchange; the licensing appeal of Sharp v. Wake- field; the British South Africa Co. v. Companhia de Mozambique, and the Trades Union case Allen v. Flood. In 1892 Lord Herschell returned as Lord Chancellor, and one of his first duties was to defend the Lords Lieutenant, the majority of whom were Conserva- tives, from the attack of the Radicals,

On the 1st, at Middachten Castle, Arnhem, aged 72, Dowager Countess of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Mechtilde, daughter of Count Charles of Aldenburg- Bentinck, a Lieutenant-General in the British Army. Married, 1846, Charles, Count of Waldeck and Pyrmont. On the 1st, at Bournemouth, aged 73, Very JEtev. Andrew Kennedy Hutchinson Boyd, son of Rev. Dr. James Boyd, of Glasgow. Born at Auchinleck; educated at Ayr Academy, King's College, London, and Glasgow University ; B.A., 1846 ; studied two years for the Bar, but relinquished it for theology; Presbyterian Minister of Newton-on-Ayr, 1851-8; Kirkpatrick, Dumfriesshire, 1868-9 ; St. Bernard's, Edinburgh, 1859-68 ; Dean of St. Andrews, 1868; Moderator of the General Assembly, 18&0; a prolific author, under the initials " A. K. H. B.," of essays, sermons and reminiscences. He died from mis- adventure, taking a carbolic liniment by mistake for a sleeping draught. Married, first, 1853, Margaret, daughter of P. Kirk ; and second, 1897, Mary, daughter of P. Meldrum. On the 2nd, at Bournemouth, aged 59, Colonel Alexander James Donnelly Hawes. Joined the Bengal Native Infantry, 1859; took part in the Tumloong Expedition, 1860; in the campaign against the Bezolis, 1869; the Jowakis, 1877-8; the Afghan War, 1879; the Zhob Valley Expedition, 1884; and the Hazara Expedition, 1888. On the 3rd, at Woking, aged 78, Sampson Samuel Lloyd, son of George Braithwaite Lloyd, of Birmingham. Unsuccessfully contested Birmingham, 1867 and 1868, as a Conservative ; sat for Plymouth, 1874-80 ; South Warwickshire, 1884-5 ; established Lloyd's Bank, 1866, and was Chairman until 1886. Married, first, 1852, Emma, daughter of S. Reeve, of Leigh ton Buzzard ; and second, 1889, Marie Wilhelmina, daughter of Lieutenant-General W. F. Menohkoff, of the Russian Army. On the 4th, at Walton-on-Thames, aged 65, John Mason Cook. Associated since 1864 with his father, Thomas Cook, the

who demanded that working should be appointed justices of the peace. In 1891, on the death of Lord Granville, he was appointed Chancellor of the University of London, and constantly advocated the extension of its work as a teaching body. He took much interest in the Imperial Institute, which he believed might be turned to useful purposes ; in the Selden Society ; the Society for the Study of Compara- tive Legislation, and in the philan- thropic work of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. His favourite relaxation was music, and as a violoncello player he showed much proficiency, and he was appointed Senior Grand Warden of the Free- masons in 1886. In 1898 he was appointed President of the Anglo- American Commission to decide matters and boundaries in dispute between the United States and Canada. He had made great progress during the autumn and winter, gaining the good opinion of all with whom he was brought in contact. On February 15, whilst walking in the streets of Washington, he slipped on the ice and in falling broke one of the bones of the pelvis. He was, of course, confined to bed, but was supposed to be progressing favourably towards recovery when suddenly from heart failure or apoplexy he passed away after scarcely more than twelve hours' illness on March 1 at the Shore- ham Hotel, Washington. His body was brought to England with every mark of respect from Americans and Cana- dians.