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the florescence of acquaintance with culture, refinement and social usages; it was the fruitage of a life rooted in rectitude, sincerity, loyalty, generousness and broad humanity." Samuel J. Elder and Herbert Parker also spoke.

National Education for Ireland, and from 1885 to 1897 was judicial commissioner of educational endowments for Ireland. He was made a bencher of Lincoln's Inn in 1901. In 1896 he served as Chancellor of the united dioceses of Dublin, Glendalough and Kildare.

Judge J. A. Dupuy, a prominent jurist, Former United States Senator William died October 3 in Roanoke, Va. He was Lindsay at his home in Frankfort, Ky., fifty-five years old. At the time of his death October died 15. Senator Lindsay, who was a he was president of the Roanoke Bar Asso leading Southern Democrat and lawyer, was ciation. He was engaged in the practice in Rockbridge County, Va., September of law for many years in Parkersburg, W. born 1835. He moved to Kentucky in 1854. Va. The Parkersburg Dispatch- News thus 4, He served as Captain in the Confederate referred to him: "Gentle as a woman, but Army 1865. He was elected to the state strong as a lion in the defense of what he senateuntil in 1867. In 1870 he was made Judge believed to be right, Judge Dupuy was a of Court of Appeals, and in type of the chivalrous old Virginian school, 1876thehe Kentucky was appointed Chief Justice, serving which is too rapidly passing." for two years. He then became a resident of Frankfort, Ky. In 1893 he was elected to Judge James Cameron MacRae, for ten the United States Senate to succeed John years dean of the State University Law G. Carlisle. In the following year he was School of North Carolina and former Supreme re-elected for a full term of six years, which Court justice, died recently at Chapel Hill, expired in 1901. His opposition to "free twelve miles from Durham, N. C. Judge silver" brought him into national prominence. MacRae was seventy-one years old. Until On his retirement from the Senate he built his death he had been one of the state's most up a lucrative law practice in New York active citizens. Speaking of Judge MacRae, City. He has lately been called by the Chief Justice Clarke of North Carolina said: Washington Post "a lawyer the equal of any "His death is a great loss to the state, to the jurist who ever sat on any bench or ever profession and to the splendid law school pleaded at any bar. He made more decisions of which he was the head. He was a pains that became 'leading cases' than any other taking, able and conscientious judge and a man in the history of the Anglo-Saxon race most agreeable and pleasant associate on the who was on the bench no longer than he." In physique Senator Lindsay was of almost bench. massive size, standing six feet two in height and weighing nearly two hundred and fifty Judge Robert Roberts Bishop of the pounds. Superior Court of Massachusetts died at his home in Newton Centre, October 7, after Hon. Rufus Wheeler Peckham, Associate an illness of about three months. He was born in Medfield, Mass., in 1834, and was Justice of the Supreme Court of the United fitted for college at Phillips Academy, An- States, died at his summer home at Altamont, dover, from which he was graduated in 1854. near Albany N. Y., Oct. 24. Justice Peckham He was graduated from the Harvard Law was born in Albany, Nov. 8, 1838. His School in 1857. He spent a year in the office father was one of the best known lawyers in of Peleg W. Chandler before starting to the state of New York. Being graduated at practise for himself. In 1861 he formed the Albany Academy when eighteen years a law partnership with Thornton K. Lothrop, of age, the boy displayed exceptional gifts In the spring of 1888 Mr. Bishop was appointed as a public speaker. After graduation he a member of the Superior Court. For many entered the law office of Colt & Peckham, years he served as president of the board and three years later was admitted to the bar. Although not a college graduate. of trustees of Phillips Academy, Andover. Justice Peckham was a cultivated and scholarly gentleman. In 1857 he was ad Rt. Hon. Gerald FitzGibbon, Lord Justice mitted to the firm of Peckham & Tremain, of Appeal in Ireland, died October 14 in which subsequently became Peckham & London. He was born in Dublin in 1837. He Rosendale, and in that office his great legal was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, victories were won. He was engaged in many where as a scholar he won several medals. He of the most remarkable criminal trials of was admitted to the Irish bar in 1860, and central New York state, notably the Johnstown to the English bar, Lincoln's Inn, in the and Grannett murder trials and the Sessions following year. He received his appointment bribery case. In civil or criminal law he as Queen's Counsel in 1872, was appointed was almost uniformly successful. In 1881 law adviser to Dublin Castle in 1876, and was he was appointed corporation counsel to Solicitor-General of Ireland from 1877 to the city of Albany, and discharged the duties 1878. He was made a bencher of King's of the position to the satisfaction of tax Inns in 1877, and in 1879 received his ap payers. In 1883 he was elected Justice of pointment as Privy Councillor for Ireland. the Supreme Court in the third judicial From 1884 to 1896 he was Commissioner of district, and while serving as such was, in