OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (FoED GRAMME.) 



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Foa, Edouard, a French explorer, died in Paris 

 in June, 1901, at the age of thirty-eight. He 

 was decorated by the French Government for his 

 journey across Central Africa, and received the 

 grand gold medal of the French Geographical 

 Society. He was the author of two volumes, 

 Mes Grandes Chasses dans 1'Afrique Centrale and 

 Du Cap au Lac Nyassa, for which the French 

 Academy awarded him a prize of 1,500 francs. 



Ford, Edward Onslow, an English sculptor, 

 born in London July 27, 1852; died there, Dec. 

 23, 1901. He studied at Antwerp and Munich, 

 and after a few years became a regular exhibitor 



at the Royal Acad- 

 emy. His earliest 

 work to attract gen- 

 eral attention was a 

 seated statue of Sir 

 Henry Irving as 

 Hamlet, now in the 

 London Guildhall 

 Gallery. Other im- 

 portant works of his 

 are a standing statue 

 of Gladstone, seated 

 statues of Huxley, 

 Dr. Dale, and the 

 Duke of Norfolk, the 

 Shelley Memorial, 

 the Jowett Memo- 

 rial, the Marlowe 

 Memorial at Canter- 

 bury, the Strath- 

 nairn monument in 



Knightsbridge, and the great statue of Queen 

 Victoria for the city of Manchester. Besides 

 these, Ford executed many portrait busts and 

 imaginative designs. His figures are infused with 

 the perception of beauty of line or expression, 

 rather than with great originality or power. 



Fuller, Morris Joseph, an English clergyman, 

 born at Lewes, Sussex, about 1835; died in 

 Brighton, July 25, 1901. After receiving an edu- 

 cation at Brighton College and at Cambridge, he 

 was an assistant master at the former institution 

 in 1855-'60. He took orders in the English 

 Church in 1857, and for a time was curate of 

 Buckland Monachorum, Devonshire. He was 

 rector of Lydford, 1867-79; vicar of East Moul- 

 sey, 1879-'84; rector of Ryburgh, 1884-'89; vicar 

 of Bishops Tawton, 1889-'93; and vicar of St. 

 Mark's, Marylebone Road, London, 1893-1901. 

 He was an extreme ritualist and a very ardent 

 controversialist, and in consequence was continu- 

 ally involved in ecclesiastical disputes. He pub- 

 lished The Court of Final Appeal, or the Appellate 

 Jurisdiction of the Crown in Ecclesiastical Cases 

 (1865); Our Established Church (1878); The 

 Lord's Day: Its Unity, Philosophy, and Perpetual 

 Obligations (1883); Life, Times, and Writings of 

 Thomas Fuller, the Church Historian (1884); 

 Letters on the Disestablishment Question (1885) ; 

 Our Lady of Walsingham (1886); The Throne 

 of Canterbury, or the Archbishop's Jurisdiction 

 (1891); and Life, Letters, and Writings of John 

 Davenant, 1621-1641, Lord Bishop of Salisbury 

 (1897). 



Gilbert, Sir Henry, an English agricultural 

 chemist, born in Hull, in 1817; died in St. Albans, 

 Nov. 23, 1901. He was the son of a clergyman, 

 studied chemistry at Glasgow and London Uni- 

 versities, and under Liebig at Giessen, and after 

 assisting in the laboratory of University College, 

 London, took charge in 1843 of the chemical labo- 

 ratory of the experimental agricultural station of 

 Rothamsted started by John Bennett Lawes, 

 with whom he was associated for fifty-seven 



years, making the agricultural investigations the 

 main work of his lite:. 



Goltz, Graf Karl von der, a German soldier, 

 born April 12, 1815; died in Nice, i '(!>. ^), I'jOl. 

 He entered the Prussian army in iH.'i^, served 

 with the cuirassiers, commanded a regiment oi 

 hussars from 1859 to 1804, then a cavulrv \,n^-<'\>- 

 till 1872, when he was appointed act.ni- iuiju- 

 tant-general to the Emperor, serving till the 

 death of Wilhelm 1. 



Got, Edmond, a French actor, born in Li-nie- 

 rolles, Orne, Oct. 1, 1822; died in Passy, March 

 21, 1901. He was educated in the Charlemagne 

 Lyceum, graduating as laureate; was then em- 

 ployed in the prefecture of the Seine until he en- 

 tered the conservatory in 1841. He went into 

 the Theatre Frangais in 1844, playing servants' 

 roles and becoming a societaire in 1850. He won 

 the public and the critics from the start by the 

 studied naturalness of his comic acting and by 

 his talent for stage business and the picturesque 

 relief he gave even to the most insignificant parts. 

 The abbe in II ne faut jurer de rien was one of 

 his earliest triumphs, Tibia in Le Caprices de 

 Marianne another. He put his mark on the 

 valets of the classical drama of Moliere, Regnard, 

 Lesage, Marivaux, and Beaumarchais ; but mod- 

 ern creations added more to his reputation, one 

 of the first of which was Due Job of Leon Laya 

 in 1859. Still stronger was his Giboyer, Les 

 Effrontes and Le Fils de Giboyer of lilmile Au- 

 gier, his college friend, whose favorite interpreter 

 he became. When the Comedie Franchise hesi- 

 tated to produce La Contagion in 1866, he got 

 permission to take it to the Odeon and create the 

 r61e of Andre Lagarde, whose phrase meaning 

 that the hour will come when smothered truth 

 will burst forth in a thunderclap was frantically 

 applauded by the students as a protest against 

 the absolution of the second empire, to the dis- 

 may of the author, who stood well at court. In 

 Leons et Renards and the subsequent pieces of 

 Augier he created the most striking roles. One 

 of his greatest successes was as the rabbi in 

 L'Ami Fritz of Erckmann-Chatrian. His Tribou- 

 let in Victor Hugo's Le Roi s'amuse was a fail- 

 ure, and Bellac in Le Monde ou 1'on s'amuse he 

 had to transfer to Prudhon. Edmond Got was a 

 man of letters also. He wrote two books of 

 opera for Edmond Membre"e, L'Esclave and Fran- 

 cois Villon. He was professor in the conserva- 

 tory. 



Gramme, Zenobe, a Belgian electrician, born 

 in Jehay-Bodignee, Huy, April 4, 1826; died in 

 Paris, Jan. 20, 1901. He was the son of an offi- 

 cial in the tax office who had a small salary, but 

 spared nothing in the education of his three girls, 

 Avho became eminent teachers. The son learned 

 first the carpenter's trade, which he carried on 

 when his parents removed to Li&ge. There he 

 attended the trade-school. In 1855 he went to 

 Paris and was employed as a pattern-maker in 

 the works of the Alliance Company, which con- 

 structed electrical apparatus, especially the Rol- 

 let electro-magnetic machines for the generation 

 of electric illumination for lighthouses. The phe- 

 nomenon of induction struck his attention, and 

 when he found that his independent conclusions 

 coincided with those of Faraday and Amp&re he 

 sought further instruction from Ruhmkorff and 

 Disderi, having no theoretical knowledge till then 

 except what he had drawn from Ganot's treatise 

 on physics and a few other books. With a poor 

 apparatus installed in a kitchen he began to ex- 

 periment, and in 1867 he obtained his first patent, 

 which did not relieve his want, which was ex- 

 treme, for he had given up his trade and the 



