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second son of Edward Archdale. Graduated at Exeter College, Oxford; B.A., 1885; sat as a Conservative for Co. Fermanagh, 1874-85. Married, first, 1842, Emily M., daughter of Rev. the Hon. J. 0. Maude ; and second, 1894, Matilda, daughter of William Alley, of Artane, Co. Dublin. On the 24th, at Prague, aged 55, Cardinal Count Francis Schoenbom. Educated at Prague and Vienna Univer- sities, where he studied jurisprudence ; subsequently entered the Army and served with the Cuirassiers in the Austro- Prussian War, 1866 ; returned to the study of law, which he forsook for theology and was ordained, 1871 ; consecrated Arch- bishop of Prague, 1885, and raised to the Cardinalate, 1889. On the 24th, at Boscombe Manor, Hants, aged 78, Lady Shelley, Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Gibson. Married, first, 1841, Hon. Charles Robert St. John ; and second, 1848, Sir Percy Shelley, son of Percy Bysshe Shelley, the poet. On the 25th, at Belgrave Mansions, S.W., aged 61, Major-Oeneral John Crosland Hay, O.B., son of C. Crosland Hay. Entered the Army, 1855; served with 92nd Highlanders through the Indian Mutiny, 1857-8; the Afghan War, 1878-80; and the Boer War, 1881 ; twice severely wounded and several times mentioned in despatches ; commanded 92nd Regiment, 1885-7. On the 27th, at Devonshire Place, London, aged 84, Henry Wollaston Blake, F.B.B., son of William Blake, of Danesbury, Herts. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A., 1687 (Twelfth Wrangler) ; joined James Watt, of Soho, Birmingham, 1847, as a partner in the engineering works ; Director of the Bank of England, 1852 ; F.R.S., 1843. Married, first, 1857, Charlotte, daughter of J. Walbanke Childers, of Cantley, Yorks; and second, 1878, Edith, daughter of Rev. Prebendary Hawkshaw, of Weston, Herefordshire. On the 27th, at Freshwater, I.W., aged 85, Arthur Tennyson, sixth son of Rev. George Clayton Tennyson, of Somersby, Lincoln, and brother of Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate. Lived much in Florence and Italy. Married, first, 1889, Harriet, daughter of G. West; and second, 1849, Louisa, daughter of F. Maynard. On the 27th, at Windsor, aged 64, Commander Annealey Turner Denham, B.N., son of Admiral Sir H. Mangles Denham, F.R.S. Entered the Navy, 1848 ; served in the Pacific, 1849-54 ; Baltic, 1854-5, with much dis- tinction ; and in West Indies, 1859-64 ; and in China during the Taeping Rebellion. On the 28th, at Winchester House, Old Broad Street, E.C., aged 87, Admiral Sir Windham Hornby, K.C.B., son of Rev. Geoffrey Hornby, Rector of Bury. Educated at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth ; entered the Navy, 1825 ; retired, 1849 ; Commissioner of Prisons, 1877-92. Married, first, 1849, Augusta, daughter of Sir William Pratt Call, and widow of Captain C. D. Paterson ; and second, 1897, Catherine, daughter of Charles Tottenham, of Ballycurry, Co. Wicklow, and widow of Captain H. M. Howard, 18th Hussars. He died whilst presiding at a public meeting, and had just finished speaking. On the 28th, at Birmingham, aged 71, John Thackeray Bunoe. Born at Faringdon, Berks; educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham; successively reporter, sub-editor and editor of Arts* 8 Birmingham Gazette, 1846-61 ; editor of the Birmingham Gazette, 1862-98 ; author of a " History of the Corporation of Birmingham " ; one of the founders of the Liberal Federation and a member until 1885. Married, 1852, Rebecca, daughter of R. Cheesewright, of Gosberton, Lanes. On the 29th, at Vienna, aged 96, Leopeld von Bramencom, the doyen of the European press. By turns a soldier, a musician, a diplomatist and a journalist, having as the last-named edited the Vienna Fremdenblatt for nearly fifty years. On the 80th, at Washing- ton, aged 79, Mrs. Southworth, an eminent novelist, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte, step-daughter of Joshua L. Henshaw, at whose school she graduated ; was a school- mistress at Washington, 1844-9. Married, 1850, Frederick H. Southworth, of Utica, and was a prolific novel writer for forty years, 1848-88.

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Sir W. H. Flower, K.C.B., D.O.L.— William Henry Flower, a member of a family long identified with Strat- ford-on-Avon, was born there in 1881, and was educated there and at War- wick, until he entered upon his medical course at University College Hospital, London, where he graduated in medi- cine and shortly afterwards entered the Army Medical Service, and was

attached to 63rd Regiment. He went through the whole of the Crimean campaign, from the battle of the Alma to the fall of Sebastopol; but having obtained his medal and clasps he left the Army service at the conclusion of the war, and in 1856 was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy at Middlesex Hospital. It was not, however, until 1858 that he began the career in whioh