S3 8 BRITISH OBITUARY 



BRITISH OBITUARY, 1910-12 



1910 



A few additions may be made here to the record of British obituary already contained 

 in the E. B., in respect of the period (1909-10) when the nth edition was passing 

 through the press. 



The deaths of Bishop Alfred Barry, formerly primate of Australia (b. 11826; d. at Windsor, 

 April i, 1910; see E. B. ill, 444); General Sir William Butler, the Irish soldier and writer 

 (b. 1839; d. in Tipperary, June 7, 1910; see E. B. iv, 888); Prof. J. E. B. Mayor, the classical 

 scholar (b. 1825; d. at Cambridge, December I, 1910; see E. B. xvii, 937), and Sir Walter 

 Palmer, 1st Bart., of "Huntley & Palmer's" (b. 1858; d. in Berkshire, April 16, 1910; see 

 E. B. xx, 645), may be noted in connection with the biographical articles referring to them. 



In the case of other people referred to in the E. B. as then living, the deaths occurred in 

 1910 of Lieut. Boyd Alexander, the African explorer (b. 1873; killed by natives at Nyeri in 

 Wadai, April 2; see E. B. i, 353); Col. Claude Regnier Conder, R.E., LL.D., the Palestinian 

 geographer and archaeologist (b. 1848; d. February 16; see E. B. xi, p. vi); Reginald Frank 

 Doherty, the lawn-tennis player (b. 1874; d. in London, December 29; see E. B. xvi, 303); 

 Sir Thomas Drew, the Irish architect, president of the Royal Hibernian Academy (b. 1838; 

 d. in Dublin, March 13; see E. B. ii, 441); Rev. Hereford Brooke George, the New College 

 (Oxford) tutor, military historian, geographer and Alpine climber (b. 1838; d. December 15; 

 see E. B. xv, 556, "Jungfrau"); Robert Walker Macbeth, the Scottish painter (b. 1848; 

 d. in London, November i ; see E. B. xx, 500) ; Frank Podmore, the associate of Gurney and 

 Myers in psychical research (b. 1856; d. near Malvern, August 14; see E. B. xxii, 15); 

 Admiral Sir Harry Rawspn, governor of New South Wales 1902-09 (b. 1843; d. in London, 

 November 3; see E. B. iii, 738); and Dean Edward C. Wickham, of Lincoln, ex-headmaster 

 of Wellington (b. 1834; d. in Switzerland August 18; see E. B. xii, 72). 



Archbishop William Dalrymple Maclagan, who had resigned the archbishopric of York 

 in 1908, died in London on the igth of September, 1910. Born in Edinburgh in 1826, he 

 had begun life in the army, retiring as lieutenant in 1852 in order to enter the church; and 

 after studying at Cambridge he became a London rector, first at Newington and then at 

 St. Mary Abbott's, Kensington, where his success led to his selection as bishop of Lichfield 

 in 1878. In 1891 he was made archbishop of York. Both as bishop and archbishop, Mac- 

 lagan did much to stimulate Church work both among the clergy and the laity; in 1899 he 

 sat as assessor with Archbishop Temple of Canterbury when the decision was given against 

 the use of incense and other "ritualistic" practices (see E. B. xiv, 352), and though personal- 

 ly a strong High Churchman he loyally upheld the Primate's "opinion" in his diocese. 



Mention must be made here too of the death in London, on December 12, 1909, of the 

 eccentric art-collector George Salting (b. Australia, 1836), whose name will endure because 

 of his bequest to the nation of his unique treasures, porcelains, etc., now housed in several 

 rooms of the Victoria and Albert Museum. 



The premature death in London, on December 29, 1910, of Samuel Henry Butcher, 

 the classical scholar and M.P. for Cambridge, calls for a fuller notice. He was the eldest 

 son of Samuel Butcher, classical tutor and lecturer at Trinity College, Dublin, and subse- 

 quently Bishop of Meath. Born in Dublin on the i6th of April 1850, he went to Marl- 

 borough in 1864 and won an open scholarship for classics at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 

 1869. In 1870 he won the Bell scholarship at Cambridge, in 1871 the Waddington scholar- 

 ship, and in 1871 and 1872 the Powis medal. In 1873 he graduated as senior classic and 

 won a Chancellor's medal. He took an assistant mastership at Eton for a year, but returned 

 to Trinity, Cambridge, as fellow and lecturer in classics. On his marriage in 1876 to Rose, 

 daughter of Archbishop Trench of Dublin (see E. B. xxvii, 242d), he had to resign his 

 Trinity fellowship, and was then elected tutor and "married fellow" at University College, 

 Oxford. In 1882 he succeeded Prof. Blackie as professor of Greek in the University of 

 Edinburgh. During his tenure of this chair he became widely known, not only as a scholar 

 but as a judicious administrator and educational reformer. He was a member of the royal 

 commission which was appointed after the passing of the Scottish Universities Bill in 1889 

 to reform the whole academical system in Scotland, and which reported in April 1900. In 

 1902 Mrs. Butcher died, and two years later he resigned his professorship and went to reside 

 in London. He had been a member of the Royal Commission of 1901 on University Educa- 

 tion in Ire-land, which produced an abortive report with 8 reservations in 1903; and he was 

 also included on the Royal Commission of 1906. In the latter year, on the death of Sir 

 Richard Jebb, he was chosen as a Unionist to represent the University of Cambridge in 

 Parliament, where his brother J. G. Butcher (b. 1853), a well-known barrister, had sat for 

 many years as Unionist member for York; he made an effective maiden speech on the Irish 

 University Bill and frequently took a valuable part in debate. His grave and thoughtful 

 style and gift of natural eloquence were combined with a charm and sincerity which won 

 him universal respect and affection, no less in public than in private life. He was however, 

 above all, a fine Greek scholar, full of the true spirit of classical learning, with a remarkable 



