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 1845; served with distinction with 84th Regiment in the Crimean Campaign, 1865, and Indian Mutiny, 1857-8 ; wounded at Cawnpore. Married, 1867, Maria, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Williams, R.A. On the 2nd, in Warren County, N. J., U.S.A., aged 97, John Inaley Blair, son of a small farmer, and from small beginnings became one of the greatest railway constructors in the North- western States — 2,000 miles in Iowa and Nebraska alone — founding about eighty towns along the lines in which he was interested. On the 4th, at Chomlea, Manchester, aged 76, Benjamin Armitage, son of Sir Elkanah Armitage. Edu- cated at Barton Hall School, Patricroft; for many years a manufacturer in Manchester ; sat as a Liberal for Salford, 1880-5, and for ^est Salford, 1885-6. Married, first, 1845, Helen, daughter of John Smith, of Binffley, Yorkshire ; and second, 1856, Elizabeth, daughter of G. J. Southam, of Manchester. On the 5th, at Parkhill, Streatham, aged 86, Sir Henry Tate, first baronet, son of Rev. William Tate, of Chorley. Began life as a grocer's assistant in Liverpool ; came to London, 1864, and established himself in the wholesale sugar trade, and promptly took a leading position by the acquisition of a patent for cutting sugar loaves mto cubes ; expended large sums upon philanthropic works in Liverpool and London, and generously patronised British art and artists. The first offers of his gallery of pictures to the nation having been declined, he at length offered to build a gallery at the cost of 80,0001. on a Government site. The offer having been tardily accepted, the building was commenced in 1892 and opened in 1897, and on November 27, 1899, the additional galleries, costing Sir H. Tate, with those originally opened, 250,000/., were completed. Married, first, 1841, Jane, daughter of John Wignall, of Aughton, Lancashire ; and second, 1885, Amy, daughter of Charles Hislop, of Brixton Hill. On the 5th, at Merrion Square, Dublin, aged 67, Bight Hon. William O'Brien, son of John O'Brien, of Broomfield, Co. Cork. Born at Cork ; educated at Midleton College ; began life as a schoolmaster and after- wards was a journalist ; called to the Bar, 1855 ; unsuccessfully contested Ennis as a moderate Home Ruler, 1880; Q.C., 1872; Judge of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland), 1882; of the Queen's Bench, 1888; Judicial Commissioner of Educational Endowments, 1890; presided at the trial of the " Invincibles " for the Phoenix Park murders. On the 5th, at Bournemouth, aged 83, Colonel Crawford Cooke. Entered the Madras Army of the H.E.I.C.S., 1884 ; served in the Burmese War, 1852-8. Married, 1843, Frances Pender, daughter of H. W. Kensington, C.S., Madras. On the 5th, at Southwick, Sussex, aged 67, Captain John Conyngham Patterson, B.H. Entered the Royal Navy, 1846 ; served at the taking of Borneo, 1846; on the West Coast of Africa, 1849-52; in the Baltic, 1854-5. On the 7th, at Singapore, aged 63, Sir Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell, O.C.M.O., son of Colonel Hugh Mitchell, R.M. Educated at the Royal Naval School ; entered the Royal Marines, 1852 ; served in the Baltic, 1854-5 ; appointed Colonial Secretary, British Honduras, 1868-76; Receiver-General of British Guiana, 1877; Colonial Secretary of Natal, 1877-86; Governor of Fiji, 1886-8; of the Leeward Islands, 1888 ; of Natal, 1889-98, when he was appointed Governor of the Straits Settlements. Married, first, 1862, Fanny Oakley, daughter of W. M. Rice; and second, 1889, Eliza, daughter of Rev. J. J. Welldon, Vicar of Kennington. On the 7th, at Dorchester, aged 91, Major-General Henry Buckley Jenner Wynyard, son of Rev. Monteyn J. Wynyard, of West Rounton, Yorks. Entered the Army, 1825 ; served with 89th Regiment in Canada, 1840-3 ; Com- mandant of Royal Military School, Dublin, 1861-78. Married, 1847, Ann, daughter of Rev. Jonathan Townley, of Steeple Bumpstead. On the 8th, at Teddington, aged 70, Hon. George Augustus Hobart-Hampden, son of sixth Earl of Buckinghamshire. Educated at Haileybury ; entered the Bombay Civil Service, 1849. Married, 1857, Jane, daughter of Sir J. Wither Awdry, Chief Justice of Bombay. On the 10th, at Botley, Hants, aged 61, Sir , K.C.B., son of Rev. Canon Jenkyns, D.D., of Durham. Educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford ; B.A., 1860 (First Class Lit. Hum.) ; called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, 1863; Assistant Parliamentary Counsel to the Treasury, 1869-86, when he suc- ceeded Lord Thring as Parliamentary Counsel. Married, 1877, Madeline Sabine, daughter of Admiral Sir Thomas Sabine Paslev, K.C.B. On the 10th, at Brack- nell, aged 59, Baroness Berkeley, Louisa Mary, daughter of Hon. Craven Berkeley. Established her claim to the barony of Berkeley, created in 1421, which she inherited from her uncle, the sixth Earl of Berkeley. Married, 1872, Major- General G. H. L. Milman, R.A. On the 13th, at Belfast, aged 83, John Frederick Hodges, M.D. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Glasgow and Giessen ; M.D., 1843 ; Professor of Chemistry, Royal Belfast College, 1862 ; Professor of Agriculture, Queen's College, Belfast, 1883 ; author of several scientific works. On the 13th, at Toronto, aged 58, Sir George Airey