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he organised the mobilisation of troops for the campaign of 1 880-81, including the march 

 from Cabul to Kandahar. After some years of service as Lieutenant he commanded the 

 Chitral Relief Expedition of 1895 (see E. B. vi, 252). Retiring in 1905 he was appointed 

 Keeper of the Crown Jewels in 1909. 



George Robert Milne Murray, F.R.S. (b. 1858; d. December 16), the well-known botan- 

 ist, younger brother of A. S. Murray (see E. B. xix, 38). As keeper of the Department of 

 Botany at the British Museum his researches were principally devoted to algae and 

 cryptogams, in the pursuit of which he made several voyages, notably in 1901 as scientific 

 director to Capt. R. F. Scott's Antarctic Expedition. 



Frederick William Pavy (b. 1829; d. September 19), the well-known physician. He was 

 for years the chief authority in Europe on diabetes (E. B. xviii, 62), and wrote various 

 works upon digestion and the metabolism of the carbo-hydrates. 



Sir Herbert Hope Risley (b. 1851; d. September 30), the Anglo-Indian Civil Servant 

 and anthropologist. His principal work was done in connection with Indian ethnography, 

 the discussion of the caste system, etc., and he published under Government auspices some 

 important volumes of anthropometric data. He had charge of the Indian Census operations 

 of 1901. He was appointed Secretary of the Judicial Department of the India Office in 1910. 



General Sir Frederick Charles Arthur Stephenson, G.C.B. (b. 1821; d. March 10) 

 Constable of the Tower of London since 1898. He fought in the Crimea, and served in 

 China from 1857 to 1861. From 1883 to 1888 he commanded the army of occupation in 

 Egypt (see E. B. ix, 123, 126). 



Meredith White Townsend (b. 1831; d. October 21), the well-known journalist. Born 

 in Suffolk, and educated at Ipswich grammar school, in 1848 he went out to India, and four 

 years later became editor of the Friend of India, acting also for some years as Times corre- 

 spondent. In 1860 he returned to England, and purchased the weekly Spectator (E. B. 

 xix, 562). With R. H. Hutton (E. B. xiv, i6d) he was joint-editor until 1898, and he was 

 largely instrumental in making it an established success. 



Bishop John Wordsworth of Salisbury (b. 1843; d. August 16), the classical scholar 

 and divine, son of Dr. Christopher Wordsworth (afterwards Bishop of Lincoln) and grand- 

 nephew of the poet (see E. B. xxviii, 8250). 



The obituary for. 1911 also included the following names of people of public interest, 

 concerning whom brief biographical data are appended; 



Sir John Aird, 1st Bart., the famous engineer and contractor; d. January 6th. Born in 

 London on the 3rd of December 1833, the only child of John Aird, contractor for gas and 

 water plant, he joined his father's business at eighteen. He was entrusted with the removal 

 of the Crystal Palace buildings for the Great Exhibition of 1851 from Hyde Park and their 

 re-erection at Sydenham, and took part in many large enterprises at home and abroad, 

 such as the Hampton and Staines reservoirs, the water-works of Amsterdam, Copenhagen, 

 Moscow, Bahia, Para, Calcutta, Simla and Berlin, and later (in the joint firm of Lucas & 

 Aird, afterwards John Aird & Co.), the St. John's Wood Railway, the Hull & Barnsley 

 Railway and Docks, the West Highland Railway and the great Assuan Dam across the 

 Nile (see E. B. xiv, 8soa). He represented North Paddington in Parliament as a Unionist 

 from 1887 to 1905, and was its first mayor in 1900. In 1901 he was created a baronet. 



William George Aston, a well-known authority on Japanese literature; b. 1841; d. Nov. 

 22nd. He entered the British consular service in Japan in 1864. His Japanese grammars 

 and translations were the first good English books on the subject. 



Harold Kyrle Bellew, the actor; d. at Salt Lake City, Utah, November 2. B. in 

 1855, in Lancashire, he first appeared on the stage in Australia in 1874; and after several 

 London engagements he joined Henry Irving for two years at the Lyceum in 1878. He 

 had the reputation of being the handsomest man on the stage. In 1888, with Mrs. Brown 

 Potter's company, he toured round the world. For the last ten years of his life he had been 

 playing in the United States, in romantic and modern plays. 



Sir Nathan Bodington, vice-chancellor of Leeds University; b. 1848; d. May I2th. A 

 graduate of Wadham, Oxford, he became a fellow of Oriel, and in 1882 professor of Greek 

 and principal of Yorkshire College, Leeds. It was owing to his efforts that the college was 

 endowed and chartered in 1903 as a university. 



Colonel Sir Edward Ridley Colborne Bradford, 1st Bart., the Anglo-Indian soldier, and 

 London Police Commissioner; d. May I3th. Born in Buckinghamshire on the 27th of July 

 1836, and educated at Marlborough, in 1853 he went to India as a cadet in the East India 

 Company's service and joined the 2nd Madras light cavalry. He served with distinction 

 through the Indian Mutiny and till 1863, when he lost an arm in tiger-shooting; he then ac- 

 cepted political offices, serving as political agent, chief of native police, and after 1878, 

 chief commissioner of Ajmere and in control of all relations with the Rajput chiefs. In 1887 

 he was recalled to the India Office in London, and from 1890 to 1903 he was commissioner of 

 the London Metropolitan Police. He was created a baronet in 1902. 



Henry Broadhurst, the English Labour Leader and Liberal politician; d. at Cromer, 

 October nth. Born at Littlemore, near Oxford on the I3th of April 1840, the son of a 

 stonemason, he was educated at the village school, and at the age of 13 was apprenticed to 



