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power of literary expression, shown especially in such publications as his Aspects of the 

 Greek Genius (1891), Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art (1895), Greek Idealism in 

 the Common Things of Life (1901), Harvard Lectures on Greek Subjects (1904), and his prose 

 translation (with Andrew Lang) of the Odyssey (1879). In 1907 he was president of the 

 English Classical Association, of which he had been one of the principal founders in 1903. 

 He was also the first president of the Irish Classical Association, and an original member of 

 the British Academy, becoming its president in 1909. In 1908 he was appointed a trustee 

 of the British Museum. Two years later his health began to fail, and he made his last 

 public appearance and delivered his last speech on the 2ist of October 1910, at the dinner 

 given to celebrate the publication of the nth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica by 

 the Cambridge University Press. 



1911 



The following persons, of whom separate biographical notices are given in the E. B., 

 died in 1911: 



Edwin Austin Abbey (b. 1851, see E. B. i, n), the Anglo-American painter, on August I, 

 in London. Besides bequests to the Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, the Boston Art 

 Museum and the British National Gallery, Mr. Abbey left his house in Chelsea, London, 

 after the death of his widow, to the Royal Academy for the use of the president. 



William Alexander (b. 1824; see E. B. i, 565), Protestant Archbishop of Armagh and 

 Primate of Ireland, at Torquay on September 12. He had resigned his see on January 30, 

 and had been created a G.C.V.O. 



The gth Earl of Carlisle (b. 1844; see E. B. v, 341), in London on April i6th. 



Edward Dicey (b. 1835; see E. B. viii, 178), the publicist, in London on July 7th. 



Sir Charles Dilke (b. 1841; see E. B. viii, 271), the Liberal statesman and author, in 

 London on January 26th. 



Sir Francis Galton (b. 1823; see E. B. xi, 427), the anthropologist and founder of "eugen- 

 ics," at Haslemere on January I7th. 



Sir William Gilbert (b. 1836; see E. B. xii, 10), author of the Bab Ballads and collaborator 

 with Sir Arthur Sullivan in the Savoy operas, on May 29th, being drowned in trying to rescue 

 a lady from a pond in his grounds at Harrow Weald. 



Sir Eldon Gorst (b. 1861; see E. B. xii, 261), Lord Cromer's successor as British Agent 

 and Consul-general in Egypt, on July I2th, at Castle Combe, Wiltshire. He had resigned 

 his position in Egypt shortly before he died, being succeeded by Lord Kitchener. 



Sir Robert Hart (b. 1835; see E. B. xiii, 30), long the head of the Chinese Customs, at 

 Great Marlow on September 2Oth. 



Sir Joseph Hooker (b. 1817; see E. B. xiii, 671), the eminent botanist, at Sunnydale on 

 December loth. 



Baron James of Hereford (b. 1829; see E. B. xiv, 144), the Liberal Unionist statesman 

 and lawyer, at Epsom on August i8th. 



Thomas Rupert Jones (b. 1819; see E. B. xv, 500), the geologist and palaeontologist, at 

 Chesham, Bucks, on April I3th. 



Alphonse Legros (b. 1837; see E. B. xvi, 380; ix, 806), the artist, on December 8. 



Sir Alfred Lyall (b. 1835; se E. B. xvii, 148), the Anglo-Indian administrator and man 

 of letters, in the Isle of Wight on April nth. 



John Brown Paton (b. 1830; see E. B. xx, 930), the Congregationalist divine, on January 

 26th. 



The 1st Baron Northcote (b. 1846; see E. B< xiv, 280), Governor-general of Australia 

 1903-08, at Ashford on December 2gth. 



The 4th Earl of Onslow (b. 1858; see E. B. xx, 113), formerly a Conservative Cabinet 

 Minister, and governor of New Zealand, on October 23. 



William Clark Russell (b. 1844; see E. B. xxiii, 865), the writer of sea-stories, on Novem- 

 ber 8th. 



Edward Whymper (b. 1840; see E. B. xxviii, 617), the artist and Alpine climber, at 

 Chamounix on September 16. 



" John Strange Winter " (Mrs. Arthur Stannard ; b. 1856; sec E. B. xxviii, 734), authoress 

 of Booties' Baby, in London on December 13. 



The 1st Viscount Wolverhampton (b. 1831; see E. B. xxviii, 781), the Liberal statesman, 

 on February 25. He had retired from the Asquith Cabinet early in 1910. 



References are also made in the E. B. to the following who died in this year: 



Hermann Adler (b. 1839; d. July 18), the Chief Rabbi of the United Synagogue, London 

 (see E. B. xxvi, 292a). 



James Aumonier (b. 18,32 ; d. October 4), the landscape painter (see E. B. xx, 5Oic). 

 His "Sheep Washing" and "Black Mountains" are in the Chantrey Bequest collection at 

 the Tate Gallery. 



_ Charles Frederick Moberly Bell (b. 1847; d. April 5th), the managing director of the 

 Times (see E. B. xix, 558a). Born in Alexandria, the son of an Egyptian merchant, he 

 was educated in England, but in 1865 went back to Egypt and engaged in business. He 



