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rization. In 1880 he delivered aggressive speeches 

 Ireland, and in 1880-'81 he was one of the trav- 

 ersers in the state trials. lie was one of the few 

 prominent members of the Irish party who were never 

 in prison, which he escaped at that tune by going to 

 Paris alter the suppression of the Land League and 

 living lor a considerable period in exile. Alter his 

 return he was made the defendant in a sensational 

 breach of promise suit brought by fanny Hyland, 

 whose acquaintance he made abroad. 



Blanchett, Joseph Goderick, a Canadian statesman, 

 born in St. Pierre, June 7, 1829; died in Quebec, 

 Jan. 2, 1890. He studied medicine, raised a battalion 

 of volunteers and was commander of the troops 

 stationed south of the St. Lawrence during the Fenian 

 raid of 1866 and in 1870j engaged in the railroad 

 business and entered politics, became a member of 

 the Canadian Assembly in 1861 and after the act of 

 union of the Quebec Assembly^ officiating as Speaker 

 till 1875. In 1873 he was appointed a member of the 

 Catholic section of the Quebec Council of Education. 

 Being defeated in the town of Levis, of which he was 

 mayor for six years, and which he represented as a 

 Liberal Conservative in the Provincial As<embly from 

 1867 till 1875, he was elected for Bellechasse, and rep- 

 resented that constituency until he was re-elected lor 

 Levis in 178. 



Boehm, Sir Edgar, English sculptor, born in Vienna, 

 Austria, July 4, 1834 ; died ir> London, Dec. 12, 1890. 

 His father, a Hungarian, was director of the Austrian 

 mint. After studying his art in Vienna, Paris, and 

 Italy, he settled in' England in 1862. He executed a 

 colossal statue of the Queen in 1869, and received 

 many other commissions from her ; was appointed her 

 sculptor in. ordinary in 1881; and in July, 1889, was 

 created a baronet. Among his best-known works are 

 a colossal statue of John Hunyan and statues of Lord 

 Napier of Magdala, Earl Russell, Lord Lawrence, 

 Thomas Carlyle, William Tyndall, Lords Beacons- 

 field and Stratford de Kedclyft'e, and Dean Stanley. 

 He made busts of many of the British statesmen, 

 military men, and men of science, bronze figures of 

 famous race horses, and models of lions and bulls. 



Booth, Catherine, wife of Gen. William Booth, the 

 organizer and chief of the Salvation Army, born in 

 the west of England in 1835 ; died in Clacton-on-Sea, 

 Oct. 4, 1890. She was married at the age of twenty- 

 five, her maiden name having been Mumford. In the 

 building up of the Salvation Army she took a part that 

 was only second to that of her husband, and that 

 earned for her the title of its " mother." She was a 

 fluent and effective platform speaker and the author 

 of books written in aid of the organization and its 

 missionary objects, among which are " Godliness," 

 "Heathen England," and "The Eelation of the 

 Salvation Army to Church and State." When she 

 died, instead of signs of grief and mourning, her 

 relatives and associates gave public expression to 

 their joy over her passage to a happier state. 



Brackenbury, Henry, an English general, born in 

 Bolin^broke, Lincolnshire, Sept. 1, 1837 ; died in 

 London. June 20. 1890. He was educated at Eton 

 and at tne Woolwich Military Academy, entered the 

 artillery, and served in 1857 and 1858 in the suppres- 

 sion of the Sepoy mutiny in India, after which he 

 returned to England, and was appointed instructor in 

 artillery and subsequently Protessor of Military 

 History in the Royal Military Academy. During the 

 Franco German \Var he was the chief representative 

 of the British society for aiding the sick and wounded. 

 In 1873-'74 he served as military secretary to Sir 

 Garnet Wolseley in the Ashantee" campaign, and in 

 1875 went on a special mission to Natal. He was 

 assistant adjutant-general of the force that occupied 

 Cyprus in '1878, and organized the Cyprus military 

 police. Accompanying Gen. Wolseley to South 

 Africa in 1879 as military secretary, he served as 

 chief of staff in the closing operations of the Zulu 

 war and in the operations against Secocceni. In 1880 

 he was Lord Lytton's private secretary in India, and 

 in January, 1881, was appointed military attache to 



the British embassy in Paris, whence he was recalled 

 in May, 1882, to take charge of the military police in 

 Ireland as assistant under-secretary. This post he 

 resigned in the following July. In 1884 he served 

 with the Nile expedition as deputy adjutant-general, 

 and subsequently as second in command of the river 

 column, with the rank of brigadier-general, succeeding 

 to the chief command of the column when Gen. Earle 

 was killed. He was promoted major-general, and on 

 Jan. 1, 1886, was appointed head of the intelligence 

 department of the British army. Gen. Brackenbury 

 published a " Narrative of the Ashantee War" and 

 " The River Column." 



Brand, Johnnes Henricus, President of the Orange 

 Free State, born in Cape Town, Dec. 6, 1823 ; died 

 July 15, 1890. He was a son of Sir C. Brand, Speaker 

 of the Cape Assembly, who died in 1875, and was edu- 

 cated at the South African College and at the Univer- 

 sity of Leyden, where he received his degree of D. C. L. 

 in 1845. He was called to the bar in 1849, returned'to 

 Cape Colony, and till 1863 was an advocate in the 

 - Supreme Court. In 1858 he was appointed Professor 

 of Law in the South African College. He was elected 

 President of the Orange River Republic in 1863, and 

 in 1869, 1874, 1879, 1884, and 1889 was re-elected. 

 He was a believer in the necessary subordination of 

 the Orange Republic to the policy of the British Gov- 

 ernment, which consequently showed him every mark 

 of favor and in 1882 knighted him. 



Burns, Sir. George, a Scotch ship owner, bom in 

 Glasgow, Dec, 10, 1795; died at \Vemyss Bay, June 

 2, 1890. He was the son of a distinguished minister, 

 and in 1818 went into mercantile business in Glas- 

 gow. His firm acquired vessels in the coasting-trade, 

 and in 1824 engaged in steam navigation. He raised 

 the capital to carry out the idea of a line of trans- 

 atlantic steam packets, suggested to him by Samuel 

 Cunard, of Halifax, the first four of which, all wooden 

 paddle-wheel vessels, were built in 1840. Cunard, 

 Burns, and Maclver, the founders of the company, 

 bought out the other shareholders, and George Burns 

 managed its affairs until he retired in 1860, and trans- 

 ferred the direction to his son John. He was created 

 a baronet of the United Kingdom in 1889. 



Callaway, Henry, an English missionary, born Jan. 

 17, 1817 ; died March 27, 1890. He was educated at 

 Dr. Lightfoot's school in Crediton, studied medicine 

 in London, and became a successful practitioner. 

 After becoming a member of the Society of Friends 

 and rejoining the Church of England, he followed 

 his religious bent in 1854 by going out to assist 

 Bishop Colenso in his missionary _ enterprise. He 

 was ordained and appointed to the first church built 

 in Natal, St. Andrew's at Pietermaritzburg, in Sep- 

 tember, 1858. He founded in 1858 the missionary 

 station of Spring Vale, which he made a center of 

 Christian and civilizing influence among the Zulu 

 Caffres, with whose language, beliefs, traditions, laws, 

 and customs he became thoroughly familiar. Dr. 

 Callaway took a leading part in the work of reducing 

 the Caffre language to writing, and made translations 

 of the Bible and the prayer-book. In 1874 he was 

 consecrated at Edinburgh Bishop of Independent Caf- 

 fraria, where he founded the town of Umtata, con- 

 taining now a church, a theological school for natives, 

 schools for native and European children, and other 

 institutions of his creation. Bishop Callaway pub- 

 lished " Zulu Nursery Tales " in Zulu and English. 



Carnarvon, Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, Earl of, 

 an English statesman, born June 24. 1831 ; died in 

 London, June 28, 1890. He took high rank as a 

 student at Eton and Christ Church, and having suc- 

 ceeded his father three years before, he began to take 

 part in the debates of the House of Lords after his 

 graduation in 1 852. In 1858 he was appointed Under 

 Secretary of State for the Colonies. When Lord 

 Derby became Prime Minister again in 1866 he made 

 Lord Carnarvon Secretarv for the Colonies. In March, 

 1867, after bringing in tne bill for the confederation 

 of the British North American colonies, he resigne< 

 because he could not agree with his colleagues on the 



