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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (INGRAM KARL.) 



1901. He entered the navy in 1845, became cap- 

 tain in 1863, after taking an active part in the 

 Chinese war, was a lord of the Admiralty in 

 1880, and in 1882 was charged with the operations 

 for the protection of the Suez Canal previous to 

 the arrival of Lord Wolseley's forces, in which 

 he acquitted himself in a manner to deserve the 

 thanks of Parliament. He was admiral com- 

 manding the naval reserves till 1885. commanded 

 the Mediterranean squadron from 1889 till 1891, 

 then First Lord of the Admiralty for two years, 

 at the end of which he retired. 



Ingram, Thomas Dunbar, an English jurist, 

 born in 1820: died in Dublin, Ireland, Dec. 30, 

 1901. He was educated at Queen's College, Bel- 

 fast, and at London University, and was called 

 to the bar in 1854. He went to India, where he 

 was for some time Professor of Jurisprudence in 

 the Presidency College at Calcutta, and an advo- 

 cate of the High Court of Judicature of India. 

 He was the author of Compensation to Land 

 and House Owners (1864) ; Two Letters on some 

 Recent Proceedings of the Indian Government 

 (1871); A History of the Legislative Union of 

 England and Ireland (1887); Two Chapters of 

 Irish History (1888) ; England and Rome: A His- 

 tory of the Relations between the Papacy and 

 the English State and Church from the Norman 

 Conquest to the' Revolution of 1688 (1892); and 

 A Critical Examination of Irish History (1900). 

 , Jack, Mrs. Agnes Jane (Nichol), a Scottish 

 novelist, born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1837 ; died 

 there in November, 1901. She was the daughter 

 .of John Pringle Nichol, for many years Professor 

 of Astronomy in Glasgow University, and a 

 younger sister of the late John Nichol, the well- 

 known Scottish critic. She married William Jack, 

 a professor in the university in which her father 

 and brother were long prominent. Her novels, 

 Brother and Sister and A Passion FloAver, were 

 published anonymously. 



Jacobs, Henry, an English clergyman, born in 

 the Isle of Wight in 1824; died in Christ Church, 

 New Zealand, in March, 1901. He was educated 

 at Oxford, and after taking orders in the Estab- 

 lished Church was successively curate of Bus- 

 sage, Gloucestershire, head master of St. Nicho- 

 las's School, at Shoreham, and curate of Poplar. 

 He went to New Zealand at the close of 1850, 

 and was master of the newly established gram- 

 mar school in Christ Church for eleven years. 

 He became Dean of Christ Church in 1866, re- 

 signing in 1891. He was the author of a History 

 of the New Zealand Church and edited the New 

 Zealand Church News for many years. 



Jeaffreson, John Cordy, an English author, 

 born in Framlingham, Suffolk, England, Jan. 14, 

 1831; died in London, Feb. 2, 1901. He was the 

 son of a surgeon, and received his university edu- 

 cation at Oxford. After spending some time as 

 a tutor, he studied law and was called to the 

 bar in 1859, but practised his profession slightly 

 if at all. He had begun to write novels soon after 

 taking his university degree, and after becoming 

 popular as a novelist he continued to put forth 

 novels, biographies, and other works at frequent 

 intervals for nearly forty years, besides contrib- 

 uting largely to periodicals. For many years he 

 was inspector of records and documents for her 

 Majesty's Commissions on Historical Manu- 

 scripts. His work in fiction includes Crew Rise 

 (1854) ; Isabel, the Young Wife and the Old Love 

 (1856); Miriam Copley (1859); Sir Everard's 

 Daughter (1860); Olive Blake's Good Work 

 (1862); Live it Down: A Story of the Light 

 Levels (1863); Not Dead Yet (1864); A Noble 

 Woman (1868); A Woman in Spite of Herself 



(1871); Lottie Darling (1873); The Rapiers of 

 Regent's Park (1882); and Cutting for Partners 

 (1890). His remaining works are Novels and 

 Novelists from Elizabeth to Victoria (1858); A 

 Book about Doctors (1860); Life of Robert Ste- 

 phenson (1864); A Book about Lawyers (1866); 

 A Book about the Clergy (1870); Annals of Ox- 

 ford (1870); Brides and Bridals (1872); A Book 

 about the Table (1874); A Young Squire of the 

 Seventeenth Century, edited (1878); The Real 

 Lord Byron (1885); The Real Shelley (1885); 

 Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson (1887); The 

 Queen of Naples and Lord Nelson (1889); Vic- 

 toria, Queen and Empress (1893); and A Book 

 of Recollections (1893). 



Jellett, Henry, an Irish clergyman, born in 

 Ireland about 1820; died in Dublin, Dec. 31, 1901. 

 He was graduated at Trinity College, Dublin, in 

 1842, and took orders in the Irish Episcopal 

 Church in 1844, his ministry being subsequently 

 in the south of Ireland. He was already a canon 

 of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, when in 1884 

 he became Archdeacon of Cloyne, and in 1889 he 

 succeeded to the deanery of St. Patrick's. Dean 

 Jellett was prominent in Irish Church affairs, and 

 took an active part in the reorganization of the 

 Church after its disestablishment in 1869. He 

 was a stanch theologian and a most effective 

 preacher. His published works are The Irish 

 Church and the Articles of 1615 (1850) and Some 

 Thoughts on the Christian Life (1884). 



Kaizl, Joseph, an Austrian statesman, born 

 in Bohemia in 1854; died in Miskowitz, Aug. 20> 

 1901. He studied in Strassburg, taught political 

 economy in Prague University while it was Ger- 

 man, and became professor when it was converted 

 into a Czech institution. Being a ready and ele- 

 gant speaker equipped with modern social science 

 and political knowledge, he became prominent in 

 politics, first attaching himself to the Old Czechs, 

 and going over to the Young Czech party like 

 many of his associates when the conflict over lan- 

 guages became earnest. When it became neces- 

 sary to give a ministerial post to the Czech group 

 Dr. Kaizl, although he had been known as a 

 Socialist of the chair and a Radical, entered the 

 Thun Cabinet as Minister of Finance. 



Karl, Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Wei- 

 mar, born June 24, 1818; died in Weimar, Jan. 

 5, 1901. He was the youngest child of the hered- 

 itary Grand-Duke Karl Friedrich and Maria 

 Paulowna, Grand Duchess of Russia. The golden 

 days of the reign of Karl August passed away 

 during his childhood, but Goethe was still alive 

 and celebrated the birth of the fortunate prince 

 with a poem entitled Die Kiinste, and took par- 

 ticular interest in the early education of Karl Au- 

 gust's grandson. The young hereditary, after a 

 long journey in Italy, studied for one year at the 

 University of Leipsic, then at Jena for one year, 

 after which he visited the courts of Berlin, St. 

 Petersburg, Paris, London, and The Hague, and in 

 1840, having been passed through the subordinate 

 grades, entered the Prussian army as colonel of. 

 cuirassiers, and in two years of active service in 

 command of a regiment was advanced to the rank 

 of field-marshal. On Oct. 8, 1842, he married 

 Sophia, Princess of the Netherlands, then eighteen 

 years of age, who bore him three children. The 

 eldest was the hereditary Grand-Duke Karl Au- 

 gust, born July 31, 1844, who died Nov. 20, 1894, 

 leaving two sons by Princess Pauline of Saxe- 

 Weimar, his first cousin, whom he married in 

 1873. Of the daughters of Karl Alexander the 

 elder, Princess Marie, married the Prince of Reuss- 

 Schleiz and the younger, Princess Elisabeth, Duke 

 Johann Albrecht of Mecklenburg, afterward Re- 



