OBITUARY. 



CAPTAIN L. S. JENNINGS. 



Captain Lancelot S. Jennings, who was killed in action at the front on 

 the 15th September, 1916, as born at Takaka, Nelson Province, in the 

 year 1888. He was the second son of the Rev. Charles Jennings, sometime 

 incumbent of Takaka Parish, and a grandnephew of the late Sir John 

 Jennings, England. His mother was the second daughter of the late Rev. 

 T. S. Grace, who for many years in the earlier history of New Zealand, 

 before the Maori War, was the Church of England missionary resident at 

 Pukawa, Lake Taupo. 



Captain Jennings was educated at Nelson College and Canterbury 

 College. He distinguished himself at both places, taking his B.Sc. degree 

 in 1910, M.Sc. in 1911, B.A. in 1912, and was the Canterbury College 

 candidate for the Rhodes Scholarship in 1912. During that year he acted 

 as Professor of Biology at Canterbury College while Dr. Chilton was absent 

 on leave in Europe. After that he served for some time on the staff of 

 the Wanganui Collegiate School, and at the time of his enlistment he was 

 Science Master at Waitaki High School. He was a keen soldier always, and 

 put in his full time in the Senior Cadets and Territorials. He embarked on 

 the 14th August, 1915, with the Sixth Reinforcements as senior lieutenant 

 in the Otago Infantry Battalion, and after the Gallipoli campaign got his 

 captaincy in Egypt, prior to departure for the western front in France. 



He was a first-class cricketer, having represented both Nelson College 

 and Canterbury College, and was one of the most brilliant lawn-tennis 

 players in the country. He was New Zealand University champion from 

 1908 to 1912 (inclusive), and in the last year he and Miss B. D. M. Cross 

 (now Mrs. Jennings) won all five championships between them. 



Before the end of his college course he had joined the Philosophical 

 Institute of Canterbury, of which he continued to be an active member. 

 He took up specially the study of the New Zealand Cirripedia, a group 

 which has been very much neglected, and had already published a paper 

 dealing with the species of the pedunculate Cirripedia, while his revision of 

 the sessile forms was well advanced when he left New Zealand for the front. 



THOMAS KING. 



Thomas King was born in Glasgow in 1858, and was brought to Auckland 

 in infancy by his parents. He was educated at the Auckland College and 

 Grammar School, and afterwards by private tutors in Wellington. He 

 joined the staff of Messrs. W. and G. Turnbull and Co., and afterwards 

 entered the service of Messrs. Levin and Co. 



Mr. King was on the staff of the Colonial Observatory as transit observer 

 under the directorship of the late Sir James Hector, and from 1887 to 1911 

 he was responsible for the time service. At the latter date he resigned 

 from the Observatory. 



