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for the Indian Oivil Service an esprit de corps similar to that which Hailey- bury had formerly fostered. With this view also he undertook several journeys to India, where he advocated and ob- tained support for his plan of founding at Oxford an Indian Institute. His efforts were so far successful that in 1883 the foundation stone of the build- ing was laid by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, the Marquess of Salisbury, Chancellor of the University, being present, and in 1884 he was appointed its keeper and perpetual curator, having presented to it his own col- lection of Oriental books and manu- scripts. He was elected a Fellow of Balliol College, 1882-8, Chairman of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, 1883-6, and an Honorary Fellow of University College.

The first literary work by which Monier- Williams became known was a translation of the Sanscrit drama 44 Sakourtala," or the " Lost Ring," but the most important production of his laborious life was the "Sanscrit- English Dictionary," the first edition of which, 1862, had occupied twenty years of unremitting attention. The second edition, undertaken at the request of the Indian Government, occupied the last years of his life, and was twice the size of the first edition ; the last proof sheets were returned to the printer only ten days before his death. Among other important works, although they do not exhaust the list, Monier- Williams was the author or translator of "Study of Sanscrit in Relation to Missionary Work " (1861), 44 Indian Epic Poetry " (1863), " Indian Wisdom " (1873), " Hinduism " (1877), "Modern India and Indians" (1878), 41 Religious Thought and Life in India" (1888), "The Sacred Books of the East " (1886), " Buddhism " (1890), "BrahmaniBm" (1891), etc., etc. He was a man of wide sympathies and interests, an advocate of the claims of missionary enterprise, an amateur astronomer and photographer of con- siderable distinction, and an accom- plished skater. He married, 1848, Julia, daughter of Rev. Francis Faith- full, rector of Hatfield, Herts, and died on April 11 at Cannes, where he had wintered for several years.

Duke of Beaufort, K.O. — Henry Charles Fitsroy, eighth duke, was born in 1824, and was educated at Eton, and entered the Army, serving in 1st Life Guards and 7th Hussars. As Marquess of Worcester he sat in the House of Commons 1846-58 as a Conservative member for East Gloucestershire, being returned without a contest. After succeeding to the peerage he was Master of the Horse in Lord Derby's Administrations, 1858-9 and 1866-8, and it was more by his love of field sports than of politics that he figured before the world. For forty years he hunted the Badminton district in a truly magnificent style, keeping eighty horses in his stables and as many couples of hounds.

On the turf the duke was fairly successful. His horses at first were trained by John Day at Danebury, and he won the One Thousand Guineas in 1865 with Siberia, and in 1869 with Scottish Queen, and the Two Thou- sand Guineas with Vauban in 1870, the Grand Prix de Paris with Ceylon, besides other races at Goodwood and Ascot. After an interval he transferred his horses to Captain MaohelTs stables, and won the Two Thousand Guineas with Petronel 1884, the Prince of Wales' Stakes at Ascot in 1885 and 1886, the One Thousand Guineas and the Oaks with Reve d'Or 1887, and three times the Metropolitan Stakes.

He also took a great interest in driving, and was from its founding President of the Four-in-Hand Club, as well as of its offshoot the Coaching Club. For several years he was part pro- prietor of the Brighton coach, and did much to revive the stage coaches from London to Oxford, Portsmouth, etc. He wrote pleasantly on various sporting subjects, and contributed in greater or less degree to the volumes on " Driv- ing," "Hunting," and "Riding," in the "Badminton Library," of which he was something more than the titular editor. In the course of his long life he had travelled much, chiefly in the search of sport, of which he had a notable collection of trophies. He married in 1858 Lady Georgians Curzon-Howe, daughter of second Earl Howe, and died at Stoke Gilford, Bristol, on April 30, from an attack of gout.

On the 1st, at Paris, aged 66, Baroness Maurloe de Hirsch de Oereuth, daughter of a Belgian financier, M. Bisohoffsheim. Married, 1852, Baron de Hirsch, a successful financier, and was distinguished for her munificent charity, especially towards the Pasteur Institute, the University of Paris and the Tudor Convalescent Home, Hampstead, which she endowed with 70,000*. On the 1st, at Grosvenor Crescent, aged 80, Sir Edmund Antrobus, third baronet. Educated at St. John's College, Cambridge; sat as a Conservative for East Surrey, 1841-7; and for Wilton, 1855-77. Married, 1847, Marianne Georgiana, daughter of Sir George

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