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 186 OBITUAEY. [Dec

Castle, 1856-75; Rector of Great Haseley, Oxford, 1875-94; Prebendary of Lich- field, 1854-78; Hon. Canon of Christ Church, 1878-94; of Canterbury, 1894; an ardent advocate of temperance and founder, in 1862, of the Church of England Temperance Society. On the 25th, in Lowndes Square, aged 66, Sir Henry Longley, K.C.B., son of Dr. C. T. Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury. Educated at Rugby and Christ Church, Oxford; B.A., 1856 (Second Class Lit. Hum.); called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, 1860; joined the Northern Circuit and after- wards the Chancery Bar; appointed Poor Law Inspector, 1868; Third Charity Commissioner, 1874, and Chief Commissioner, 1885. Married, 1861, Diana Eliza, daughter of John Davenport, of Foxley, Hereford, and Westwood Hall, Stafford- shire. On the 25th, at Baltimore, U.S.A., aged 57, Elliot Coney. Served in the Medical Department of the United States Army, 1868-81; devoted himself to the study of ornithology; Secretary to the U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey, 1874-6; Professor of Anatomy at National Medical College, Washington, 1882-92; author of "Key to North American Birds" (1871), "Field Ornithology" (1874), etc. On the 26th, at Rutland Gate, Hyde Park, aged 87, William Forsyth, Q.C., son of Thomas Forsyth, of Liverpool. Born at Greenock; educated at Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A., 1884 (Third Classic and Second Senior Optime); called to the Bar at the Inner Temple, 1889; joined the Midland Circuit; Q.C., 1857; Standing Counsel for the Secretary of State for India, 1859-72; elected as Conservative Member for Cambridge, 1865, but unseated on the ground that his office was a place of profit under the Crown; sat for Marylebone, 1874-80; was the author of "Napoleon at St. Helena" (1858), "Life of Cicero" (1864), "Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century " (1871), and many other works; was editor of the Annual Register, 1842-68. Married, first, 1843, Mary, daughter of George Lyall, of Findon, Sussex; and second, 1866, Georgiana Charlotte, daughter of Thomas Hall Plumer. On the 27th, at Bromley House, Faversham, aged 88, Frederick Lowton Spink, son of John Spink. Educated at King's College School, London, and Magdalene College, Cambridge; B.A., 1840, as a Wrangler; called to the Bar at the Inner Temple, 1843, and went the Northern Circuit; appointed Serjeant-at-Law, 1862, and was the last survivor of the Serjeants; sat as a Con- servative for Oldham, 1875-80. Married, 1844, Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Brown, of Ashton-under-Lyne. On the 27th, at Durban, Natal, aged 61, Bight Hon. Harry Escombe, P.O., LL.D., son of Robert Esoombe, of Surbiton. Educated at St. Paul's School; began life in a stockbroker's office; went to Natal, 1860; called to the Bar; became Q.C., 1886; elected Member of the Legislative Council, 1872; appointed Attorney-General in the first Natal Administration, 1893-7; Premier, 1897-8; took part in the Jubilee celebrations in London, 1898, and was made a Privy Councillor. Married, 1865, Theresa, daughter of William Garbutt Taylor, of Natal. On the 29th, at Egerton Gardens, S.W., aged 84, Admiral Sir Frederick wllllam Ersklne Nicolaon, O.B., tenth baronet, son of Major-General Sir William Nicolson. Entered the Royal Navy, 1829; saw much service in the Mediterranean against the Barbary pirates, 1845-6; in the Baltic, 1854-5; and in the Chinese War, 1857-9; for many years Chairman of the Thames Conservancy Board. Married, first, 1847, Mary Clementina, daughter of James Loch, M.P.; second, 1854, Augusta Sarah, daughter of Robert Cullington and widow of Captain Hay; and third, 1867, Anne, daughter of R. Crosse. On the 29th, at Wells, Somerset, aged 84, William HU1 Brancker, a distinguished sportsman, son of Sir Thomas Brancker, Mayor of Liverpool. Was one of the first to open up the Scotch shootings in the Hebrides; was shooting tenant of the Island of Lewis, 1847-74. On the 30th, at Ealing, aged 73, Major-General George Hutchinson, O.B., 0.8.1. Educated at Addiscombe; entered the Bengal Engineers, 1844; served in the Sutlej War, 1846, and in the Indian Mutiny, 1857-8, as Political A.D.C. to Sir Henry Lawrence, and afterwards as Chief Engineer under Havelock, Outram and Lord Clyde; Military Secretary in Oude r 1858-60; Chief of the Police in the Punjab, 1861-75. On the 30th, at Paris, aged 65, Eugene Bertrand, Director of the Paris Grand Opera. Began life by studying medicine at Paris; afterwards became an actor; went to America, 1859; Manager of the Theatre des Vartetes, 1865-89; of the Grand Opera, 1892. On the 31st, at Allerton, Liverpool, aged 54, Sir Edward Percy Bates, second baronet, a large shipowner. Succeeded to his father's business. Married, 1876, Constance Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Robert Graves, M.P. On the 31st, at Wimpole Street, aged 58, George Lewis Watson, of Rockingham Castle, Northants, son of Hon. Richard Watson, M.P. Educated at Eton; entered the 1st Life Guards, 1860. Married, 1867, Laura Maria, daughter of Rev. Sir J. H. Culme Seymour, second baronet. On the 81st, at Shanklin, I.W., aged 84, Lady Granstoun, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Seale, M.P., first baronet. Married, 1842, tenth and last Baron Granstoun.