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marriage was subsequently dissolved. On the 27th, at Farnborough, aged 82, Madame Lebreton-Bourbaki, reader to the Empress Eugenee and sister of General Bourbaki. On the 27th, at Paris, aged 64, Countess Castlgllone, an Italian lady of great beauty, and a prominent personage at the Tuileries during the Second Empire. For twenty years she lived in the Place Venddme in seclusion and candle light. On the 28th, at Melohbourne, Beds, aged 81, Dowager Lady St. John, Eleanor, daughter of Vice- Admiral Sir Richard H. Hussey, G.O.M.G. Married, 1888, fourteenth Baron St. John, of Bletsoe. On the 29th, at Sproitz, Ober-Lausitz, aged 87, General Baron Karl Friedrich Wllhelm von WrangeL Born at HolBtein ; entered the Prussian Army and became a member of the General Staff, which he left to take part in the Schleswig-Holstein War, 1848-9, and gained the title of " the Drummer of Kolding " ; rejoined the Prussian Army and commanded 26th Infantry Brigade on the outbreak of the Prusso-Danish War, 1864, and the Schleswig-Holstein Division in the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1 ; Governor of Posen, 1872-6. On the 29th, at Ebury Street, London, aged 79, Dowager Lady Vincent, Maria Copley, daughter of R. Hemes Young. Married, 1844, Rev. Sir Frederick Vincent, eleventh baronet. She was Warden of the Protestant Cemetery at Cannes and was devoted to philanthropic works at Cannes and in England. On the 29th, at Rome, aged 70, Prince Rnspoll, Don Emmuele Ruspoli, Prince of Poggio-Suasa, Senator and Mayor of Rome. Born at Rome, but obliged to leave it on account of his Liberal views; entered the Piedmonten Army, 1857, and served with distinction in the wars, 1859 and 1865 ; elected a Member of the Provisional Government of Rome, 1870, and afterwards elected Mayor; created Prince of Poggio-Suasa, 1886. On the 29th, at Paris, aged 77, Charles Bdmond, a traveller, dramatist and novelist. Born in Poland, his surname being Choiecki ; was a refugee as early as 1887 ; elected Member of the Revolutionary Diet at Prague, 1848 ; condemned by default ; was appointed Librarian at the French Colonial Office, 1871-9, and of the Senate, 1879-95. On the 30th, at London, aged 85, Richard Christopher Naylor, of Kelmarsh Hall, Northants, a traveller, a yachtsman and a sportsman, son of J. Naylor, of Hartford Hill, Cheshire. Educated at Eton; was for some years a banker in Liverpool ; won the Queen's Cup at Cowes Regatta, 1846 ; purchased the famous stallion Stockwell and with his progeny won the Oaks, 1860; the Two Thousand and the Derby, 1868 ; the Cesarewitch, 1869 and 1878. Married, first, 1854, Caroline, daughter of Rev. R. Tredcroft, of Tangmere; and second, 1856, Mary Sophia, daughter of H. Thorold, of Curwold, Lincoln. On the 30th, at Pelworth, aged 52, Sir Perristone Mllbanke, ninth baronet. Born at Munich; son of Sir J. Ralph Milbanke-Huskisson, of Halnaby, York; member of the banking firm of Mllbanke & Co., Chichester. Married, 1870, Elizabeth Margaret, daughter of Hon. Richard Denman. On the 80th, at Ryde, aged 45, Captain Archibald Thomas Carter, R.N., son of Canon Carter, of Sarsden Rectory, Oxon. Entered the Royal Navy, 1848 ; served at the bombardment of Alexandria, 1882 ; in the Egyptian War, 1882-8; in the Eastern Soudan, 1884-5; Burmese War, 1885-7.

DECEMBER.

Lord Penzance. — James Plaisted Wilde, son of Edward Archer Wilde, a solicitor, and nephew of the first Baron Truro, was born in London, July 12, 1816, and educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A., 1888, and was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in the following year. His legal relatives were responsible for his rapid advance- ment, but the promise which he then gave was fully justified. In 1840, a little more than a year after his call, he was appointed Counsel to the Excise and Customs, and in 1850 to the Duchy of Lancaster, holding both appointments until 1860, and having meantime in 1855 been appointed a

Queen's Counsel. Meanwhile he had as a Liberal unsuccessfully contested Leicester in 1852 and Peterborough in 1857. His reputation as a sound but not a brilliant lawyer had grown with time and in 1860, at a very early age in those days, he was made a Baron of the Exchequer. His strong good sense and recognised abilities marked him in 1868 as a fitting suc- cessor to Sir C. Cresswell as Judge-in- Ordinary of the Probate and Divorce Court, a post which he held until 1872, when he was forced by ill-health to give up the heavy work entailed by the post, and he retired upon a pension. Previous to his retirement he had been created a peer in 1869, and subse- M 2