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Plymouth, aged 68, Major-Oeneral Arthur Elderton, B.B.C. Entered the Army, 1844 ; served through the Punjab Campaign, 1848-9 ; severely wounded at Gujarat in a •• forlorn hope " ; and in the Indian Mutiny at the siege of Delhi, where he was severely wounded; and subsequently in command of 2nd Sikh Irregular Cavalry. He was altogether wounded eight times in action. On the 23rd, at Old Queen Street, Westminster, aged 68, Major-General Sir Claud Alexander, first baronet, son of Boyd Alexander, of Ballochmyle, Ayrshire. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford ; entered the Grenadier Guards, 1849 ; served through the Crimean Campaign, 1854-5; unsuccessfully contested South Ayrshire as a Conservative, 1868 ; sat as its Member, 1874-85. Married, 1868, Eliza, daughter of Alexander Speirs, M.P. On the 28rd, at Inverness Terrace, London, aged 88, Rev. William Wilkinson, D.D. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin ; graduated, 1839; Perpetual Curate successively of Holy Trinity and St. Mary, Sheffield, 1858-66 ; Rector of St. Martin's, Birmingham, 1866-97 ; Hon. Canon of Worcester, 1871. On the 25th, at By, near Fontainebleau, aged 76, Marie Botalie Bonheur, known as Rosa Bonheur, the most distinguished woman artist of her day, daughter of Raymond Bonheur, an artist and teacher. Born at Bordeaux; studied under her father and Leon Cogniet ; first exhibited at the Salon, 1841 ; obtained Third Medal, 1846, for " Bceufs Rouges du Cantal," and First Medal, 1848, for "Labourage Nivernai8, ,, which, with her "Horse Fair" (1858), were her most celebrated works. She painted animals, domestic and wild, with almost equal skill and power, and worked unceasingly until the close of her life. On the 28th, at Worplesdon, Surrey, aged 70, Lieutenant-General Frederick Arthur Willis, O.B., son of Lieutenant-General Willis, R.A. Entered the Army; served with 84th Regiment ; served through the Indian Mutiny, 1857, in 5th Fusiliers, with General Havelock's Field Force, with great distinction ; severely wounded at the relief of Lucknow. Married, 1860, Augusta, daughter of John G. Young, of Brighton. On the 28th, at Spain's Hall, Essex, aged 73, Colonel Sir Samuel Ruggles-Brise, K.O.R., son of John Ruggles-JBrise. Educated at Eton and Mag- dalene College, Cambridge; entered 1st Dragoon Guards, 1844; Lieutenant- Colonel of West Essex Militia, 1852-89 ; represented East Essex as a Conservative, 1868-84. Married, 1847, Marianne Weyland, daughter of Sir Edward Bowyer- Smijth, of Hill Hall, Essex. On the 29th, at St. Andrews, N.B., aged 70, General Elliot Minto Playtair, R.A., son of Colonel W. Davidson Playfair. Educated at Woolwich; entered the Royal Artillery, 1846; served in second Burmese War, 1858, and Indian Mutiny. Married, 1856, Christina Frances, daughter of Captain F. Montresor Wade. On the 80th, at Hastings, aged 60, Norman Kerr, M.D., a distinguished advocate of temperance. Educated at Glasgow University; M.B., 1861 ; President of the Society for the Study of Inebriety ; author of numerous medical and controversial works on temperance, criminal responsibility, etc. On the 80th, at London, aged 60, Rev. Luke Rivington, D.D., son of Francis Rivington, of Waterloo Place. Educated at Magdalen College, Oxford ; B.A., 1861 (Second Class Lit. Hum.) ; an eloquent preacher, and for many years attached to Cowley House, Oxford ; joined the Church of Rome, 1887. On the 81st, at Kiel, aged 80, ProfOMor Klaus Orotn, an ardent promoter of the Platt-Deutsch literature; published in 1852 a volume of dialect poems, " Queckborn," which attracted much notice ; appointed Professor of the German Language at Kiel, 1857.

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Robert Wallace, D.D., M.P.— Robert Wallace, the son of Jasper Wallace, a master gardener, of Culross, Perthshire, was born at St. Andrews in 1881, and educated at Edinburgh High School and at the University of St. Andrews, where after a brilliant career he gradu- ated M.A. in 1858, and afterwards entered Divinity Hall, Edinburgh. He was a little later ordained to the Ministry, serving at Newton -on- Ayr from 1857 to 1860, when he was appointed to Trinity College Church, Edinburgh. In 1868 on the death of

Dr. Lee, he succeeded to the ministry of Greyfriars Church, which had attained great notoriety under it* previous incumbent. His preaching, which was as broad in doctrine as his predecessor's, was remarkably success- ful, and for many years Greyfriars Church was the stronghold of the Liberal Church party in Edinburgh. In 1869 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of Glasgow, and in 1872 was appointed Professor of Church History at th University of Edinburgh. He al