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quently sat in the Court of Appeal of tne House of Lords. A little more than three years after his retirement from the Probate Court he was ap- pointed, in 1875, under the Public Worship Regulation Act, Official Principal of the Court of Arches, Canterbury, and of the Chancery Court of York, Master of the Faculties, and Judge under the Public Worship Regulation Act. His right to sit in the Province of York was strongly contested by certain members of the High Church party, but if his appoint- ment was in any way technically irregular the ill-results must have been small, for during the twenty-four years he held office only nine cases were set down for hearing under the act, and of these three were with- drawn before trial. Of the remaining some were of considerable importance, and chiefly relating to questions of ritual. In two cases, those of Mr. Tooth and Mr. Mackonochie, the defendants elected to go to prison rather than submit to a court of which they did not recognise the authority. It was rather as a member of Royal Commission that Lord Penzance showed his willingness to give the benefit of his legal knowledge and judgment. He sat on the Judicature, Marriage Law, Eoolesiastical, Army Purchase, and Army Retirement Com- missions, as well as on one to inquire into the practice of the Stock Ex- change, and another into the condition of Wellington College. In 1860 he married Lady Mary Pleydell-Bouverie, •daughter of the third Earl of Radnor, and died on December 9 at Easling Park, Godalming.

Major-Qeneral Andrew Gilbert Wauc- hope, C.B., O.M.O., who was killed on December 11 at the action on the Modder River whilst leading the High- land Brigade, was the son of Andrew Wauchope, of Niddrie Marischal, Mid- lothian, and was born in 1846, and was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and Sandhurst. He entered the Army, 1865, and was appointed to the 42nd Regiment, the Black Watch. His first active service was seen in Ashanti, where he obtained a special command in Russell's regiment in the Adousi hills. As staff officer to the commander of the advanced guard he took part in a number of battles and skirmishes, and was severely wounded, his conspicuous gallantry causing him to be mentioned in des- patches. By the time of the first Egyptian Campaign in 1882 he had attained his captaincy, and with that

rank served at the battle of Tel-el - Kebir. In the subsequent Soudan Campaign of 1884 he was appointed D. A.O.G. and D.Q.M.G., under General Sir Gerald Graham, and at the hard fought battle of El-Teb was again severely wounded, and rewarded by a Brevet Lieutenant-Colonelcy. In the following season, 1884-5, he took part in the Nile Campaign, serving in the River Column under Major-General Earle, and he was again wounded at the engagement with the Dervishes at Kirbekan. After this he returned to Scotland to recruit, and for a time devoted himself to the management of his estates, to which on the death of his elder brother he had succeeded. He soon established himself in the affection of all his neighbours, gentle and simple, and so great was his popularity throughout the country that the leaders of the Conservative party induced him to contest Mid- lothian at the general election of 1892. At the previous election of 1885 when the seat was contested Mr. Gladstone was returned by a majority of 4,681 votes, but this was reduced by Colonel Wauchope to 690, notwith- standing his refusal to support the Eight Hours Bill for Miners, of whom there were many in the constituency. In 1894 he was appointed to the Colonelcy of the 2nd Battalion of the Black Watch, but it was as Brigadier- General in command of the 1st British Brigade that he went through the Soudan Expedition of 1898, and ac- quitted himself with conspicuous bravery at the battle of Omdurman. On his return from Egypt he was again, in June, 1899, put forward as a parlia- mentary candidate for South Edin- burgh, but was again defeated. On the formation of the South African Expeditionary Foroe General Wauc- hope was appointed to the command of the 3rd Infantry (Highland) Brigade, which on leaving England was in- tended for service in Natal. On its arrival at Cape Town orders were found directing it to reinforce Lord Methuen on the Modder River, and the fight in which he fell at the head of the regiment he loved so well took place within a few days of his arrival in South Africa. He was recognised on all sides to be both one of the bravest, the most dashing and the most popular officers in the British Army, and he was greatly beloved by all with whom he had been brought in contact, soldiers and civilians alike. General Wauchope married, first, 1882, Elythia Ruth, daughter of Sir Thomas Erskine, of Carnbo, second baronet.