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 1899.] OBITUAEY. 167

On the 6th, at Simla, aged 40, Theodore Beck, Principal of the Mahomedan College, Aligarh. Educated at a Quaker school ; obtained an open Scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge; graduated, 1882; appointed Principal of the Aligarh College, 1883, on account of his learning and great sympathy with Manomedans. Married, 1891, Jessie, daughter of Dr. Alexander Raleigh, D.D. On the 6th, at Knepp Castle, Horsham, aged 50, 8ir Charles Raymond Barren, sixth baronet. Educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge; Captain, Sussex Rifle Volunteers. Married, 1872, Etheldreda May, daughter of Sir Robert Loder. On the 9th, at Paris, aged 66, Gaston Tlssandler, a well-known aeronaut and scientist. Founder and editor of La Nature. In ascent from Paris in 1885 he attained a height of 5J miles, but his two companions died and he was senseless when the balloon came down. On the 10th, in Wilton Place, London, aged 70, Viscount Olifden, Leopold George Frederick Agar-Ellis, fifth viscount, son of first Baron Dover. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge; M.A., 1852; called to the Bar at the Inner Temple, 1854 ; sat as a Liberal for Kilkenny County, 1857-74, and unsuccessfully contested East Northamptonshire as a Liberal Unionist, 188$; succeeded his nephew as Viscount Clifden, 1895 ; sat in the House of Lords as Baron Mendip. Married, 1864, Hon. Harriet, daughter of third Baron Camoys, On the 10th, at St. Leonards-on-Sea, aged 85, Rev. Charles James Phipps Byre. Educated at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge; B.A., 1885; Incumbent of St. Mary's, Bury St. Edmunds, 1842-57; Rector of Marylebone, 1857-82. On the 11th, at Highbury, aged 75, Francis Peek. A Devonian by birth ; came to London early in life and was a successful tea merchant ; ceaselessly engaged in good works and the author of numerous works on philanthropic subjects; Member of the London School Board, 1880-5 ; took a great interest in the question of boarding out of pauper children. On the 11th, at Holloway, aged 62, John Edwin Oursans. Author of •• History of the County of Herts " (1872-80), " Grammar of Heraldry V. (1866), " Handbook of Heraldry " (1869), etc. On the 12th, at New York, aged 55, Cornelius Vanderbilt, head of the great financial family, son of William Henry Vanderbilt and grandson of " the Commodore," Cornelius Vanderbilt. Educated privately and was trained for business ; appointed Treasurer of the New York and Harlem Railroad, 1867; Vice-President, 1877; President, 1886; President of the Canada Southern, 1885, and Director of thirty-four other railroads. Married, 1865, Miss Alice Gwynne. On the 18th, at Jersey, aged 74, Lieutenant-Oeneral Sir Alexander Hugh Oobbe, K.C.B., son of Lieutenant-Colonel T. A. Cobbe, H.E.I.C.S. Entered Royal Irish Fusiliers, 1848 ; served as a Volunteer during the Indian Mutiny and was present at the siege of Delhi, 1857 ; commanded 1st Infantry Brigade in the Afghan War, 1878-9, and was severely wounded. Married, 1850, Emily, daughter of Captain Stanhope Jones, 58th Regiment. On the 14th, at Seething, Norfolk, aged 79, Dowager Viscountess Canterbury, Georgiana, daughter of Charles Tompson, of Witcningham Hall, Norfolk. Married, 1888, third Viscount Canterbury. On the 15th, at Southsea, aged 61, Lieutenant- General Edmund Faunce, C.B., son of Major-General R. N. Faunce. Entered the Madras Army, 1854 ; served through the Indian Mutiny, 1857-8, and commanded 2nd Brigade in the Burmese Expedition, 1877-8. On the 16th, at Victoria Street, Westminster, aged 92, General George Henry MacKinnon, O.B., son of Major-General H. MacKinnon. Entered the Grenadier Guards, 1824 ; served in Portugal, 1826 ; in the Kaffir Wars, 1846-7 and 1851-2 ; Chief Commissioner in British Kaffraria, 1848-54; Colonel, 26th Cameronians, 1862. On the 16th, at Brockley, aged 80, Rev. William Winnie. Educated at Hertford College, Oxford (St. Alban's Hall); B.A., 1849; Vicar of Kirtling, Cambridge, 1855-61; of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, 1861, until his death ; author of books on psalmody. On the 17th, at Hielzing, Vienna, aged 66, Professor Karl Stork, a distinguished laryngoscopist and the inventor of several ingenious instruments connected with his profession. On the 18th, at Edinburgh, aged 46, Sir James Forrest, of Coniston, Midlothian. Educated at Edinburgh University ; called to the Scottish Bar, 1879 ; Commis- sioner of Supply for Midlothian, 1887. Married, 1897, Edith Florence, daughter of James Jarvis, of Ware, Herts. On the 18th, at Tunbridge Wells, aged 86, William WUllner Poeock, F.R.I.B.A., son of an architect of some repute, and him- self the father of the Royal Institute of British Architects at the time of his death. Educated at King's College, London; A.K.C., 1886, and B.A. Lond., 1886; twice contested Guildford as a Liberal. On the 18th, at Southwold, aged 47, Lieutenant- Colonel William Edward Morrison Rough. Entered the Army, 1871, and served with 7th Dragoon Guards in the Egyptian War, 1882. On the 19th, between Edinburgh and Glasgow, aged 67, James Badenach Nlcolson. Educated at Edinburgh Uni- versity; called to the Scottish Bar, 1855 ; Secretary to the Lord-Advocate, 1866-8 and 1874-80; Counsel to the Scottish Education Department, 1878; contested