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 Corea, 1900; retired, 1903; acted as Vice-Consul Hiogo and Osaka, 1872, as Consul at Kanagawa on various occasions, 1873-9, as Assistant Judge at Shanghai in 1879 and 1880, as Judge of H.B.M.'s Court for Japan, 1894 and 189o, and as Chief Justice of H.B.M.'s Supreme Court tor China and Japan on several occasions; Member of Senate of Queen's University, Belfast, since 1908, Pro-Chancellor since 1914; Member of Vice-Regal Commission of Inquiry National Education in Ireland, 1913; J.P., and D.L. Co. Londonderry (High Sheriff, 1921); b. 13th June, 1840; son of the late John Wilkinson, of Belfast, and Annabella, dau. of the late William Shaw, of Holden's Valley, Waringstown, Co. Down. Res.: Moneyshanere, Tobermore, Co. Londonderry. Clubs: Athenaeum and Wellington, London; and Ulster, Belfast.

WILKINSON, Robert Houghton, Inspector of Dairying, Ministry of Agriculture, Northern Ireland, from 1921. Educ. at Collegiate School, Runcorn, Cheshire, and University of Liverpool; formerly Assistant to Professor James Campbell Brown, D.Sc.; Public Analyst, County of Lancaster and City of Liverpool, and Professor of Chemistry, Liverpool University; late Analyst Condensed Milk Co. of Ireland, Ltd.; Managing Director Anglo Irish Condensed Milk Co., Ltd.; b. 1867; m. 1895, Margaret, dau. of Alexander Kyle, of Widnes, Lanes. Res.: Belfast.

WILLIAMS, Alexander, R.H.A., 1891. Educ.: Drogheda Grammar School; studied for the musical profession; was a member of the Dublin Glee and Madrigal Union Quintet, 1875; afterwards soloist in the Choirs of His Majesty's Chapel Royal, Trinity College Chapel, Christ Church Cathedral, and St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin; studied drawing in the Art Schools of the Royal Dublin Society; Painter in Oil and Water Colour; A.R.H.A., 1883; self taught; has devoted himself to the delineation of Irish Landscape, Lake and Sea-Coast Scenery. He has held several successful one-man shows of Irish Scenery in Bond Street; also in Liverpool Manchester, and Bristol. In 1897 he was commissioned by the Corporation of Dublin to advise and superintend the cleaning and restoration of the valuable historical collection of Portraits in the City Hall and Mansion House. Messrs. Blackie and Son commissioned the artist to paint 48 pictures to illustrate their four published vols, of "Beautiful Ireland," letterpress by Stephen Gwynn; in Canada there is an increasing demand for his pictures of Irish Scenery, and they have been exhibited in St. John, N.B., Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton, Regina, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Prince Albert, Fort William and Vancouver. In the United States an Exhibition was held in Detroit in 1916. Recn.: the study of entomology and ornithology; has written numerous articles on bird life; b. Co. Monaghan, Ireland; m. Kate, youngest dau. of late George Gray, Vicar-Choral of Westminster Abbey, Armagh, and St. Patrick's Cathedrals, and has issue one dau. Res.: 4 Hatch Street, Dublin; Bleanaskill Lodge, Achill Island.

WILLIAMS, Robert A., M.A., Ph.D. (Leipsic), Lit.D. (Dublin); Professor of German and Teutonic Philology, Queen's University, Belfast, from 1915; late Professor, University of Dublin. Res.: Queen's University, Belfast.

WILLIAMSON, Col. John Francis, C.B. (1904), C.M.G. (1900), M.B. (T.C.D.), Col. A. M.S. (ret.); son of late Rev. A. Williamson, of Ardess, Co. Fermanagh; b. 1851; served in Afghan War, 1878-9; Egyptian War, 1882; Burmese Expedition, 1887-8; N.W. Frontier of India, 1897-8; S. African War, 1900-2; Somaliland Expedition, 1903-4; P.M.O., 5th Div. S. Army, India, 1904-08; son of late Rev. A. Williamson, of Ardress, Co. Fermanagh; b. 1851. Res.: 18 Victoria Park, Dover.

WILSON, Hon. Daniel Martin, B.A. (T.C.D.); Barrister, King's Inns, 1885; K.C., 1907; Bencher, 1911; joined 9th Roy. Inniskilling Fusiliers in 1914, and was granted a Commission; Solicitor-General for Ireland, July, 1919, to June, 1921; M.P. for West Down, 1918-21; Recorder of Belfast and County Court Judge for Co. Antrim, 1921; a Judge of the High Court of Justice, Northern Ireland, from 1921; son of Rev. David Wilson, D.D., of Limerick; b. 1862; m. 1894, Eleanor, dau. of Rev. Robert Black of Dundalk. Res.: Queen's Elms, University Road, Belfast.

WILSON, Gregg, O.B.E. (1919), M.A., D.Sc, Ph.D., M.R.I.A.; Professor of Zoology, Queen's University, Belfast, from 1909. Educ. at the Royal High School, Edinburgh and at the Universities of Edinburgh, Marburg, and Freiburg; was Demonstrator in Zoology at Edinburgh University, 1891-98; Acting Professor of Biology at Sydney University, 1898; subsequently Lecturer on Zoology at the Heriot-Watt College, and at Surgeons' Hall, and Professor of Biology in the Royal Veterinary College, Edinburgh; Inspector of Fisheries for England and Wales, 1902; Professor of Natural History in Queen's College, Belfast, 1902-9; Major in Territorial Force; Commanding Belfast University Contingent Officers' Training Corps 1910-20; also commanded Schools of Instruction for Officers during European War. Pubns.: papers, chiefly embryological, in various scientific magazines. Recn.: golf: son of late James Wilson Solicitor, of Falkirk; b. at Falkirk 15th Dec, 1865; m. Florence Allen, eldest dau. of Rev. and Right Hon, Thomas Hamilton,