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his father's trade. He worked at it for nearly twenty years, going to London finally in 1865. 

 where he was employed in the building of the House of Commons. In 1872 he was elected 

 chairman of the mason's committee during a strike, and from that time was prominent as a 

 trade union official. In 1875 he was elected secretary of the parliamentary committee of 

 the trade union congress. He entered parliament in 1880 as Liberal member for Stoke-on- 

 Trent. In 1885 he was elected for the Bordesley division of Birmingham, and in February 

 1886 was appointed under-secretary to the Home Office, going out with the Gladstone 

 government later in the year. He belonged to the older school of trade unionism and was 

 opposed to such demands as an 8-hours day fixed by law. His moderate policy was defeated 

 at the trade union congress of 1890, and ne then resigned his secretaryship. Both in 1892 

 and 1893 he was unsuccessful in his parliamentary candidatures. In 1892 he was appointed 

 a member of the Royal Commission on Labour, and in 1894 he was elected Liberal member 

 for Leicester, which seat he held until 1906, when he retired from ill health. He published 

 the story of his life in 1901, and a book on Leasehold Enfranchisement in conjunction with 

 Lord Loreburn in 1885. 



Lady Colin Campbell (nee Gertrude Elizabeth Blood); d. in London Nov. nth. In 1886 

 she obtained a separation from her husband, a son of the duke of Argyll, after a long and 

 painful suit; and subsequently, she became well-known as an art critic and journalist. 



The 3rd Earl of Cawdor (Frederick Archibald Vaughan Campbell), a prominent Unionist 

 politician; d. at Stackpole Court, Pembrokeshire, February 8th. Born at Windsor on the 

 I3th of February 1847, he was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. From 1874 

 to 1885 he was Conservative member for Carnarvonshire, and succeeded to the peerage in 

 1898. In 1890 he became a director of the Great Western Railway, and chairman in 1895, 

 and in this capacity earned a high reputation for business ability. On the 6th of March 1905 

 he became First Lord of the Admiralty in Mr. Balfour's cabinet, and held that post till the 

 fall of the government in December. Under him the "Dreadnought" and "Invincible," 

 the first ships of a new class, were laid down, and before leaving office he issued a programme 

 for building four large armoured ships annually. His death deprived the Unionist party of 

 a trusted statesman of whom much was expected. In 1907 he had moved for a select com- 

 mittee to consider the reform of the House of Lords, and he took a strong part in advising 

 that House to reject the Budget in 1909; he was a member of the C'onference of party-leaders 

 in 1910, which tried in vain to arrange a compromise on the constitutional question. 



Prof. George Chrystal, the eminent mathematician; d. at Edinburgh November 3rd. 

 Born near Aberdeen in 1851, he was second wrangler at Cambridge in 1875, and was ap- 

 pointed successively professor of mathematics at St. Andrews in 1877 and at Edinburgh in 

 1879, holding the latter post till his death. He was the author of many publications on physi- 

 cal and mathematical subjects, and his researches into the surface oscillations of Scottish 

 lakes won him a royal medal from the Royal Society. 



Baron Collins of Kensington (Richard Henn Collins), the jurist and Lord of Appeal, d. 

 at Hove January 3rd. Born in Dublin in 1842, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, 

 and Downing College, Cambridge, he was called to the English bar in 1867 and joined the 

 northern circuit. He edited the 7th, 8th and gth editions of Smith's Leading Cases, was 

 made a Q.C. in 1883 and a judge in 1891. In 1897 he became a judge of appeal, in 1901 

 Master of the Rolls, and in 1907 a lord of appeal (resigning in 1910). In 1899 he represented 

 Great Britain on the tribunal appointed to arbitrate in the boundary dispute between 

 British Guiana and Venezuela; and in 1904 he was chairman of the commission which in- 

 vestigated the case of Adolf Beck (E. B. xiv, 287) and resulted in his conviction being 

 annulled. 



Canon Robinson Duckworth, the well-known divine; d. at Hawkhurst September 25th. 

 Born at Liverpool in 1834 he took a first-class degree at Oxford in 1857, and became a fellow 

 of Trinity College, where, after being a master at Marlborough, he was tutor from 1860 to 

 1866. He was then appointed Instructor and Governor to the Duke of Albany (1866-70), 

 and subsequently Chaplain to Queen Victoria (1870). He was admitted into the most 

 domestic Court circles, and accompanied the Prince of Wales (afterwards King Edward VII) 

 on his tour through India. He l>ecanie a Canon of Westminster in 1875 (succeeding Charles 

 Kingsley) and Sub-Dean in 1895. 



Sir Charles Alfred Elliott, the Anglo-Indian administrator; d. at Wimbledon May 28th. 

 Born at Brighton in 1835, and educated at Harrow, he proceeded to Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge, but in 1856, when the Indian civil service was first thrown open to public competi- 

 tion, abandoned his Cambridge career and went out as one of the first fifteen members. 

 During the mutiny he was assistant magistrate of Mirsapur. He served at Cawnpore and 

 Oonao, where he published Chronicles ofuonao, a collection of folk-lore; he accomplished the 

 settlement of the Hoshangabad district and the Farukhabad district, drawing up a model 

 report of these operations. He administered famine relief at Mysore in 1878, and in 1881 

 became chief commissioner of Assam. In 1886 he presided over a committee appointed 

 by Lord Dufferin to inquire into Indian public expenditure. From 1890 to 1895 he was 

 lieutenant-governor of Bengal. After his retirement he did valuable work as a member of 

 the education rommirtee of the London County Council. 



Sir Hugh Gilzean-Reid, journalist and newspai>er proprietor; d. at Hendon November 



