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'.I'M AN, Captain .IriMN .' 



!'. It. S., !'. li. (!. S., etc., an accomplished 

 :rtist, ami s.ivan, linni in IJatli, 

 i. in I 7 S '. ; died in London. He r. 



t the age of sixteen, ami srrvril 



in try fuithfnlly in all tpiarters of the globe, 

 ootil his health failed. Possessing a high de- 

 gree of artistic skill, lie made sketches in sepia 

 mid \\;;t.T <'<>loi's of many places and objects 

 of interest which he visited, in Asia, AlVica, 

 and America, and his communications on the 



tphy, geology, climate, and customs, of 

 different r >untrios were always warmly wel- 

 comed, lie was an active member of the 

 Royal So. -jet y, the Royal Asiatic Society, the 

 .iphical Society, the Royal Institution, etc. 

 J'tn. 20. D'Ai/rox, JOHN, an Irish historian 

 and genealogist, horn at Bcssvillc, County West- 

 meath, Ireland, in 1702 ; died in Dublin. lie 

 was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where 



idnated in 1810; studied law at the 

 Middle Temple, London; was called t> the. 

 Irish bar in 1813, and joined the Connaught Cir- 

 cuit. He speedily attained distinction as a law- 

 yer, but historical and archaeological literature 



.eater charms for him, and eventually 

 drew him from his profession. His first pub- 

 lished work was a metrical romance, "Dermid, 

 or Erin iu the Days of Boroihme," which ap- 

 peared in 1814. In 1828 he successfully com- 



'or the Conynghain Gold Medal, ottered 

 by the Royal Irish Academy for the best essay 

 on u The Ancient History, Religion, and Arts, <>f 

 Ireland," which was published in the Transac- 

 tions of the Academy. In 1833 he contributed 

 to the Irish Penny Magazines, se/ies of "11- 

 lu>t rations of Irish Topography," and then and 

 subsequently, numerous papers to the Gcntle- 

 mnri'a Majazine, etc. In 1838 he published 

 of the Archbishops of Dublin," and 

 the same year his " History of the County of 

 Dublin," for which he had long been collecting 

 materials. In 1S44 appeared his "History of 

 Drog'icda and its Environs, with Memoir of the 

 Dublin and Drogheda Railway ;" and in 1845 

 his " Annals of Boyle," one of his most elabo- 

 rate works. In 1855 he published his "Illus- 

 trations, Historical and Genealogical, of Kin:,' 

 .James's Irish Army List, 1C89," and in 1860 a 

 second and enlarged edition of the same work. 

 His last work, issued in 1864, was " The History 

 of Dnndalk." Besides his published works, Mr. 

 D'Alton left nearly 200 volumes of manuscripts, 

 calculated to furnish valuable aid to future his- 

 torians and genealogies. 



Jan. 22.- I>I:ODIK, GEORGE, a Scottish histor- 

 ical writer, Historiographer Royal of Scotland, 

 born in the county of Fladdington, in Scotland, 

 in 1786; died in London. lie was educated at 

 the University of Edinburgh, and called to the 

 Scottish burin 181 1. In 1882 he published a 

 " History of the British Empire, from the Ac- 



:i of Charles I. to the ! n. in- 



cluding a Particular Examination of Mr. Hume's 

 Statements relative to th<- ( i t' the 



English Government;" and in 1820 "I 

 ni.-ntaries on Stair's Institutions of the Law 

 of Scotland." a very valuable work. In 1886 

 he was appointed Historiographer Royal of Scot- 

 land, and after spending almost thirty years in 

 careful study and research, published in 1865 

 a new and entirely rewritten edition of his first 

 woi-l., under the title of "A Constitutional 

 History of the llriti-h Empire." 



Jan 24. McDo. \.\ici .1.. Ri< n.\i:i>, I). I)., LL. D., 

 Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, born in 

 Douglas, County Cork, in 17K7 ; died in Trinity 

 College, Dublin. He was educated at Trinity 

 College, graduating B. A. in 1805, becoming a 

 Fellow in 1808, and taking the degree of I.I . 1 >. 

 in 1813. lie at first studied law, was called to 

 the Irish bar, and practised for some time on 

 the Munster Circuit, hut subsequently aban- 

 doned the legal profession and took holy orders. 

 In 1816 he was elected Professor of Oratory by 

 competitive examination, took the degree of 

 I). I), in 1821, was chosen Senior Fellow in 1836, 

 was Bursar for many years, and was appointed 

 Provost in 1852. His administration of fifteen 

 years was marked by the introduction of mate- 

 rial improvements in the undergraduate course of 

 the college, and by a great advance in its status. 

 Some of these improvements at first excited 

 prejudice and opposition, but they were eventu- 

 ally acknowledged to be wise and beneficial. 



Jan. 25. PALAEZ, Most Rev. FRANCISCO 

 DE PAULA GARCIA, Archbishop of Guatemala, 

 died in Guatemala. 



Jan. 26. JERSEY, SARAH SOPHIA, Dowager- 

 Countess of, a leader of fashion and society in 

 London for more than fifty years, born at West- 

 moreland House, March 4, 1 785 ; died in London. 

 She was the eldest daughter of the tenth Earl 

 of Westmoreland, and at the age of nineteen 

 married George, Viscount Villiers, who the next 

 year became filth Earl of Jersey. Inheriting a 

 large fortune in her own right, and her husband 

 being a wealthy and influential peer, Lady Jer- 

 sey had a wide sphere for the development of 

 her really brilliant talents, and occupied it 

 successfully for half a century. She shared 

 with the Viscountess Palmerston the chief po- 

 litical influence of the time, the Tory or Con- 

 servative party being very greatly controlled 

 by her. Her saloons were open nightly to 

 riceive the Tory leaders and foreign diploma- 

 tists and notables, not a few of the crowned 

 heads of Europe being on her list of acquaint- 

 ance. Her \nowledge of European politics 

 was said to be unsurpassed, and though her 

 "at homes " were almost exclusively for the 

 Tories, she enjoyed the personal friendship 

 of the Whig leaders. Her husband died in 1859, 

 and she had buried six of her seven children. 

 Her last years were passed in comparative 

 seclusion. 



j an , 30. CAMPERDOWN, Rt. Hon. ADAM 

 DUNCAN HALDANB, second Earl of a British 



