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tho head of the French house. On the 21st, at London, aged 78, MaJor-Q«neral VAmnnA Tyrwhitt, son of Sir Thomas J. Tyrwhitt, second baronet. Entered the Indian Army, 1842 ; attached to the Bengal Staff Corps ; served in the Gwalior Campaign, 1848; Punjab Campaign, 1848-9; severely wounded at the siege of Mooltan ; against the Hazuras, 1858 ; the Kheyl tribes, 1855 ; and in the Indian Mutiny, 1857-8. Married, 1859, Mary J., daughter of R. Ford. On the 21st, at New York, aged 66, Robert Green Ingersoll. Born at Dresden, New York ; edu- cated at Princetown University ; practised law at Peoria ; served as Colonel of an Illinois Regiment during the Civil War ; Attorney-General of the State of Illinois, 1866; an eloquent speaker and the author of several controversial works, dis- tinguished by their virulence against Christianity. On the 22nd, at London, aged 78, Sir Edward Robert Sullivan, fifth baronet, son of Admiral Sir Charles Sullivan* third baronet. A frequent contributor to the press of letters on public affairs and an ardent yachtsman. Married, 1859, May, daughter of W. H. Currie, M.P., of West Horsley Place, Surrey. On the 28rd, at Gloucester Terrace, Hyde Park, aged 78, General William Grlgor Bather, O.B. Entered the Royal Marines, 1837 ; served in the Carlist War, 1888-9 ; on the coast of Syria, 1840-1 ; and in Japan, 1864-6. On the 24th, at Ashby Canons Hall, Northants, aged 81, Sir Henry Edward Lee Dryden, fourth baronet. Born at Adlestrop, Gloucestershire; edu- cated at Trinity College, Cambridge; M.A., 1889; an eminent antiquarian; succeeded, 1837, to the baronetcy (1795) of his father and to that (1738) of his cousin, Sir Henry Edward Page-Turner. Married, 1865, Frances, daughter of Rev. Robert Tredgrove, of Tangmere, Sussex. On the 24th, at Dorking, aged 96, General Sir Arthur Thomas Cotton, K.G.S.I., younger son of H. C. Cotton. Edu- cated at Addiscombe ; entered the Madras Engineers, 1819 ; served through the Burmese War, 1824-6, and was subsequently employed in directing the irrigation works of that country and in developing the agricultural resources of British India. On the 25th, at Frittenden, Kent, aged 71, Rev. Thomas William Onslow Hallward. Educated at Winchester College and University College, Oxford; B. A., 1848 ; Chaplain to the Army Works Corps during the Crimean War ; Rector of Frittenden, 1867. Married, 1860, Anne, daughter of Henry Hoare. On the 25th, at Tunbridge Wells, aged 82, Rev. Frederick Foynder, son of John Poynder, C.C. Educated at Charterhouse and Wadham College, Oxford; B.A., 1888; Assistant Master, Charterhouse, 1842-72 ; author of several educational and classical works. Married, 1844, Emily, daughter of Rear-Admiral Clowes. On the 26th, at Musselburgh, Midlothian, aged 71, Lord Rutherford Clark, son of Rev. Dr. T. Clark. Educated at Edinburgh Academy and University ; called to the Scottish Bar, 1849 ; Sheriff of Inverness, 1860-8 ; of Haddington and Berwick, 1868-74; Dean of Faculty, 1874-5 ; Lord of Session, 1875-96. Married, 1855, Jean, daughter of Major James H. Rutherford, R.E. On the 27th, at Alexandria, aged 76, George Averoff or Avyheris. Born at Metzovo in Epirus ; migrated to Egypt, 1837, when he acquired an enormous fortune by money-lending and land-buying ; devoted large sums to founding charitable and educational institutions at Alexandria and in Greece; gave 40,0002. towards reconstructing the Stadion at Athens and reviving the Olympic Games in 1896, and bequeathed an equal sum for the same purpose ; 100,0002. for cost and maintenance of a Greek training-ship, etc. On the 28th, at Hamburg, aged 78, Herman Versmann. Born at Hamburg ; educated at Kiel University and studied law ; took part in the Revolution of 1848 and joined the Volunteers who attempted to expel the Danes from Schleswig- Holstein ; taken prisoner and confined at Copenhagen. On his release, returned to Hamburg and practised with great success as a lawyer ; was Plenipotentiary for Hamburg in the Federal Council, 1881-6 ; Burgomaster, 1887, and on eight successive occasions. On the 28th, at Paris, aged 70, General Antonio Gasman Blanco, son of Leocadio Guzman Blanco, a well-known statistician and the founder of the Liberal party in Venezuela. Elected Vice-President of Venezuela, 1865 ; placed himself at the head of the Provisional Government, 1870, and seized the Caracas ; confirmed President, 1878-7, and from 1878-84 to 1886-7, when he retired and settled in Paris. On the 28th, at Sunderland, aged 78, William Jones, Secretary of the English Peace Society. Special Commissioner for the distribution of food, seed, corn, etc., to the victims of the Franco-Prussian War, 1871, and of the Russo-Turkish War in Bulgaria, 1876-7 ; author of " Quaker Campaigns in Peace and War." On the 29th, at West Malvern, aged 92, Dowager Lady Howard de Walden, Lady Lucy Joan Cavendish Bentinck, daughter of fourth Duke of Portland. Married, 1828, Lord Howard de Walden, sixth baron. On the 29th, at Heavitree, Exeter, aged 79, Vlce-Aamiral Richard Dunning White, O.B., son of Rear-Admiral Thomas White, of Buckfaith Abbey, Devon. Entered the Royal Navy, 1826 ; served on the coast of Syria and at the capture of St. Jean d'Acre,