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 he travelled backwards and forwards through the United States, Canada, and England. From 1875 to 1879 Mr. Sullivan accepted various brief engagements in London. Among his later performances of importance in the Metropolis were those of Richard III. (Cibber's version of Shakespeare's play) at Drury Lane in 1876; Macbeth, at the same house, and Benedick, at the Haymarket Theatre, on the occasion of Mr. Buckstone's benefit, in August 1879. He subsequently made many appearances in the Metropolis, but latterly his health began to fail rapidly. While at home in West Brighton in 1888, he was so near death's door that the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church were administered to him. But medical skill and the watchful care of his wife and daughters kept him alive until May 3rd, 1891.

Summers, Charles, whose work as a sculptor will always be associated with early Australian art, was born at Charlton, near Ilminster, July 27th, 1827. In early life he worked with his father as a mason in various English towns, and it was while so working at Weston-super-Mare that his innate artistic talent was brought under the notice of the eminent sculptor, Henry Weekes, R.A., who was then engaged on a monumental figure in that place. Young Charles Summers was taken into Weekes' studio, and began his art career; afterward he entered the studio of Watson, and assisted in the monumental group of Lords Eldon and Stowell, now at Oxford. He was admitted as student to the Royal Academy in 1850, and obtained the silver medal for modelling from the antique. In the following year he had the almost unique honour of receiving on the same evening the first silver medal for the best model from life, and the gold medal for the best piece of historical sculpture. After exhibiting with s access at the Academy, Charles Summers emigrated to Melbourne in 1853, and after trying the diggings, opened a studio in Collins Street, and followed his art with great success. His chief work was the colossal bronze statue of the ill-fated explorers and, which he not only modelled but cast in bronze with his own hands. In 1866 he left Melbourne for Rome, where he executed a number of works, some of special Australian interest, such as the recumbent figure of Lady Macleay in Godstone Church, Surrey, and a bust of Viscount Canterbury. In 1876 Mr. Summers received a commission from Mr. (now Sir William), to execute statues of the Queen, Prince Consort, and the Prince and Princess of Wales, for the Melbourne Public Library. These were finished in 1878 and sent to Victoria, whither the sculptor himself intended to follow, but was suddenly seized with a fit, and died at Paris on Nov. 30th, 1878. He was buried in his favourite city, Rome.

Summers, Joseph, Mus. Doc., youngest son of George Summers, of Charlton, Somersetshire, and brother of the, was born in 1843, and in early life was a chorister in Wells Cathedral. After studying under such eminent musicians as Dr. Gauntlett and Sir W. Sterndale Bennett, Mr. Summers graduated Mus. Bac. at Oxford in 1863, and after holding the post of organist at Weston-super-Mare and at Notting Hill, London, he emigrated to Melbourne (1865), and for fourteen years was choirmaster and organist at St. Peter's, Eastern Hill, Melbourne, one of the oldest and leading Anglican churches in Victoria. In 1876 he was appointed Government Inspector of Music for State Schools; acts as Musical Examiner for the Tasmanian Council of Education; also the Education Department of Victoria, and assists Professor Ives (late of Glasgow) as examiner at the University of Adelaide. In 1890 the degree of Mus. Doc. was conferred on Mr. Summers by the Archbishop of Canterbury, as a social mark of recognition of his anthems and other high-class sacred music.

Supple, Gerald Henry, poet and journalist, took part as a young man in the '48 movement in Ireland, and was a member of the Irish Confederation. He contributed some stirring poems to the Nation when under the editorship of Sir. Four of them—"Sir Morrogh's Ride," "The Raid of Fitzmaurice," "The Sally from Salerno," and "Columbus"—are included in "The Ballads of Ireland" collected by Edmund Hayes. "Columbus" is a very striking and sonorous poem, resembling in many respects "The Dream of Dampier," which in after-years he contributed to the Melbourne Review, and by which he is best known in the colonies. In Melbourne, to which he emigrated about thirty years ago, Mr. Supple practised at the Bar and 448