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Africa/' " Birds of Japan/ 1 Gould's " Birds of Great Britain," Wallace's "Malay Archipelago/' etc.; was the friend of painters, especially pre-Raphaelite, ex- plorers and scientific men. On the 21st, at Berlin, aged 80, Helnrtch Xlepart, a distinguished geographer. Educated at Berlin; visited Asia Minor and made surveys, 1841-2 ; appointed Head of the Geographical Institute, Weimar, 1852 ; Professor of Geography at Berlin, 1859; author of several standard maps and books of reference on geography, ancient and modern. On the 21st, at Chelten- ham, aged 74, Colonel Charles John Ellis, R.L.M.I. Entered the Marines, 1840 ; served in the Kaffir War, 1846-7 ; in the Crimean Expedition, 1854, and in the Baltic, 1855, and was present at the battle of Balaclava and fall of Sebastopol ; Paymaster at Plymouth, 1870-8. On the 22nd, at Onslow Gardens, S.W., aged 83, Bight Hon. Sir John Robert Mowbray, P.O., first baronet, M.P. and "father of the House of Commons," son of Robert Stribling Cornish, of Exeter. Educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford ; B.A., 1886 (Second Class Lit. Hum.) ; called to the Bar at the Inner Temple, 1889 ; sat as a Conservative for Durham City, 1858-68, and for Oxford University since 1869; Judge Advocate-General, 1858-9 and 1866-8 ; Chairman of the Committee of Selection, 1874-95. Married, 1847, Eliza Gray, daughter of George Isaac Mowbray, of Bishopwearmouth, whose name he took. On the 22nd, at Kensington, aged 56, Colonel Sir Robert Warburton, K.C.I.B., O.S.I., son of Colonel Robert Warburton, R.A., of Garryinch, Queen's County. Educated at Kensington Grammar School and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; entered the Royal Artillery, 1861; served through the Abyssinian War, 1867-8 ; joined Bengal Staff Corps, 1869 ; served in the Afghan War, 1878-80, and the Tirah Expedition, 1897-8 ; was Chief Political Officer at Jalalabad and in charge of the Khyber Pass, 1879-97, where he acquired a remarkable ascendency and influence over the frontier tribes. Married, 1868, Mary, daughter of William Cecil, of Dyffryn House, Monmouthshire. On the 23rd, at Kensington, aged 82, Jabei Hogg:, son of John Hogg, of Royal Dockyard, Chatham. Educated at Rochester Grammar School, the Huntenan School of Medicine and Charing Cross Hospital; M.R.C.S., 1856; practised as an Oph- thalmic Surgeon ; was a prominent Freemason ; the author of several popular and medical works. On the 23rd, at Clifton, aged 56, Major-General Sir Jamas Alleyne, K.C.B. Educated at Cheltenham College and Woolwich Academy; entered the Royal Artillery, 1862 ; served in the Red River Expedition, 1878, and the Zulu War, 1879, with great distinction ; was appointed Boundary Commis- sioner for the subdivision of Zululand, 1880-1; served in the Egyptian Ex- pedition, 1882, and the Nile Campaign, 1884-5. On the 25th, at Walsingham Hall, Suffolk, aged 86, Bey. Sir Charles Clarke, second baronet, son of Sir Charles Olarke, M.D., Physician to Queen Adelaide. Educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A., 1831 ; Rector of Hanwell, Middlesex, 1847-64. Married, 1838, Rosa Mary, daughter of Henry Alexander, P.R.S. On the 26th, at Vienna, aged 75, Count Earl Hohenwart, an Austrian politician. Was for many yean a Liberal and a strong Federalist; appointed Prime Minister, 1871, and attempted to recognise the independence of the kingdom of Bohemia; was •opposed by the Austrian Chancellor, Count Beust, and the Hungarian Premier, Count Andrassy, and forced to resign ; was leader of the Reactionary party in the Reichsrath, 1873-97. On the 27th, in Chesham Street, S.W., aged 72, Dowager Countess of Arran, Elizabeth Marianne, daughter of General Sir William F. P. Napier. Married, 1848, fourth Earl of Arran. On the 27th, at London, aged 72, John Edmu nd Beverne, son of John Michael Severne, of Wallop Hall, Salop. Born at Ludlow; educated at Brasenose College, Oxford; sat as a Conservative for Ludlow, 1865-8, and for South Shropshire, 1874-85. Married, 1858, Florence Morgan, daughter of Very Rev. Hugh Usher Tighe, Dean of Deny. On the 27th, at Basle, aged 46, Henry Oflley Wakeman, son of Sir Offley Wakeman, baronet. Educated at Eton and Christ Church ; B.A., 1878 (First Class Medical History) ; Fellow of All Souls', 1874 ; called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, 1877 ; Bursar and Tutor of Keble College, 1878-84, when he was appointed Bursar of All Souls' ; author of several historical works. Married, 1898, Violet Mary, daughter of F. Johnston, of Westerham, Kent. On the 29th, at Bath, aged 75, General Richard Drapes Ardagh, son of Colonel John Ardagh, Judge Advocate-General of the Madras Presidency. Entered the Madras 11th Native Infantry, 1839 ; took part in the Burmese War, 1852 ; appointed Deputy Commissioner of Prome (Burma), 1858-9 ; Deputy Commissioner, Rangoon, 1859-62 ; Commissioner of Lower Burma, 1863-78 ; after his retirement he was appointed Teacher of Burmese at Oxford, Cambridge and King's College, London. Married, 1857, Frances, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel J. Hutchings. On the 80th, in Albion Street, Hyde Park, aged 57, Hon. Power Henry Le Poor Trench, son of third Earl of Clancarty.