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OBITUAKY.

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King's (Liverpool) Regiment, 1891. Married, first, 1845, Sophia, daughter of Colonel Charles Coxe Bingham, R.A. ; and second, 1887, Ada Emma, widow of Lieutenant-Colonel G. B. Stevens, B.S.C. On the 25th, at London, aged 47, Sir John Arthur Fowler, second baronet, son of the eminent railway engineer. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A., 1876; unsuccessfully contested Tewkesbury as a Conservative, 1880. Married, 1878, Alice Janet Clive, daughter of Sir E. Clive Bayley, K.C.S.I. On the 25th, at Ripon, aged 79, Louis Foucart, M.D. Educated at Glasgow University ; graduated, 1848 ; happened to be passing when Sir Robert Peel met with his fatal accident, and took him home and attended him to his death, 1850 ; afterwards went to New South Wales and was from 1856 to 1889 Government Medical Officer of Health at Port Jackson, N.S.W. On the 26th, at Paris, aged 72, Comte de Chaudordy, a distinguished diplomatist. Educated at Paris ; as a National Guard was wounded in 1848 ; entered the French Diplomatic Service, 1851, and served in various European capitals ; was Minister of Foreign Affairs at Tours and Bordeaux, 1870-1 ; Ambassador at Berne, 1878 ; Madrid, 1874-81 ; St. Petersburg, 1881-2 ; author of several historical treatises. On the 27th, at Weybridge, aged 72, Blrket Foster, B.W.8., a distinguished water-colour painter. Born at North Shields ; educated at Hitchin ; apprenticed to Mr. Landell, the wood engraver, 1841, and began by illustrating books and drawing for the Illustrated London News ; elected a Member of the Water-colour Society, 1860. On the 27th, at Algiers, aged 59, Rev. Walter Hook, son of Very Rev. W. F. Hook, D.D., Dean of Chichester. Educated at Christ Church, Oxford; B.A., 1860; Priest, Vicar of Chicester, 1868-8; Vicar of Graffham, near Pelworth, 1868-72 ; Rector of Porlock, Somerset, 1872-98 ; Pre- bendary of Wells, 1898; joint editor of "Hook's Church Dictionary" and other works. On the 29th, at Charterhouse, London, aged 65, Rev. Main 8wete Alexander Walrond, son of Theodore Walrond, of Carswell Park, Lanarkshire. Educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford; Vicar of St. Mary, Charter- house, 1862-70 ; of Lowick, Norfolk, 1870-8 ; St. Lawrence, Jewry, 1873-98. On the 80th, at South Kensington, aged 76, Sir Henry Edmund Gartwrlght, son of General J. L. Cartwright, of Marnham, Notts. Called to the Bar at the Middle Temple, 1858; Crown Commissioner of Turks' Island, 1874; Special Justice in the Bahamas, 1876. Married, 1856, Mary, daughter of Harrison Watson, of Stanhope, Durham. On the 81st, at Bedford Court Mansions, London, aged 50, William Oopeland Borlase, son of Samuel Borlase, of Castle Horneck, Cornwall. Educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford ; B.A., 1870 ; sat as a Liberal for East Cornwall, 1880-5; an archaeologist of distinction; author of "The Antiquities of Cornwall," etc. Married, 1870, Alice Lucy, daughter of Rev. Alfred Kent, Vicar of Colne, St. Aldwyn's, Gloucestershire. On the 81st, at Hastings, aged 88, Surgeon-Major George Charles Wallick, M.D. Educated at the University of Edinburgh ; M.D., 1886 ; entered the Indian Medical Service, 1887 ; served in the Sutlej Campaign, 1842 ; Punjab Campaign, 1847 ; Sonthal Rebellion, 1855-6; author of "The North Atlantic Sea-bed" (1862) and other biological works.

APRIL.

Sir Monier Monier- Williams, K.C.I.B., D.C.L., LL.D., a twin son of Colonel Monier -Williams, R.E., Surveyor- General of the Bombay Residency, was born in 1819 at Bombay, and after some years spent at private schools entered at King's College, London, and afterwards went to the East India Company's College, Hailey- bury, out of which he passed first of his year, 1887. In consequence of the death of his twin brother, Alfred, who was killed in a frontier war, and in deference to his mother's wishes, he gave up an Indian career, matriculated at Balliol College, 1888, and rowed in the Balliol boat, 1885 but subsequently

he removed to University College, where he graduated 1842, and in addition to other distinctions he was elected in 1848 Boden Sanscrit Scholar. In the following year he was appointed Pro- fessor of Sanscrit, Bengali, and Telugu, at Haileybury College, and held the post until the reorganisation of that establishment, on the transfer of the Honourable East India Company's powers in 1857.

After a short period at Cheltenham College, Mr. Monier- Williams in 1860 was elected Boden Professor of Sans- crit at Oxford, against Professor Max Muller, and at once set himself to revive at Oxford among the candidates