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5th. Born in Aberdeenshire in 1835, he became a journalist, and founded several provincial 

 papers, notably the first existing halfpenny daily, the North Eastern Daily Gazette. He 

 was the first president of the Institute of Journalists 1888-90, and the first Liberal member of 

 parliament for Aston Manor 1885-86. He was knighted in 1893. 



Sir William Grantham, the well-known judge; d. in London, November 3Oth. Born in 

 1835, he came of an old Sussex family, and inherited property in the county. After a suc- 

 cessful career at the bar, and in parliament, where he represented East Surrey in the Con- 

 servative interest from 1874-85, he was appointed in 1885 judge of the Queen's Bench 

 division of the High Court. He was never at pains to conceal his own views on politics, and 

 after 1906, when he was on the rota of judges for election petitions, his decisions were sharply 

 criticized 1 as biassed against the Liberal party, notably in the Great Yarmouth case, which 

 led to a motion of censure in the House of Commons in July 1906. But in certain criminal 

 cases he gained considerable credit, and in the Adolf Beck trial he .was one of the first to 

 suspect the mistake as to the prisoner's identity (see E. B. xiy, 287). He was chairman of the 

 East Sussex Quarter Sessions, and as a landlord took a practical interest in the housing of the 

 rural labourers. In Parliament he was a strong supporter of the establishment of the Crim- 

 inal Court of Appeal. 



The Very Rev. Robert Gregory, Dean of St. Paul's; d. August 2nd. Born at Nottingham 

 in 1819, he was at first intended for business, but subsequently went to G.C.C., Oxford, and 

 was ordained in 1843. In 1851, after holding various country curacies, he became Curate 

 of Lambeth Parish Church, and from 1853-73 was rector of St. Mary's, Lambeth, becoming 

 a Canon of St. Paul's in 1868. In 1890 he became Dean of St. Paul's, and to the end of his 

 long life devoted himself to the service of the metropolitan cathedral. 'He was a High 

 Churchman, a champion of Church Schools and of religious education, and was ? membe^ of 

 the first London School Board. 



Sir Henry Harben, a pioneer of industrial life-insurance; b. 1823; d. Dec. 2nd. From 

 1848 he had been connected with the Prudential Assurance Company, and saw it increase 

 from small beginnings till its income was over 14 millions sterling. 



Samuel Henry Jeyes, a well-known journalist; b. 1857; d. in London June 25th. He had 

 been assistant-editor of the Standard since 1892, and was the author of a Life of Mr. Chamber- 

 lain and other books. 



Alfred Peter Hillier, Unionist M.P. for Hitchin division of Herts; b. 1858; d. Oct. 24th. 

 Educated as a doctor at Edinburgh, he settled in South Africa in 1878, arid became a partner 

 with Dr. (afterwards Sir Starr) Jameson at Kimberley and Johannesburg. He was a member 

 of the Reform Committee in the crisis of 1 895-96, and was one of the prisoners at Pretoria. 

 In 1897 he settled in England and devoted himself to finance and politics. He contributed 

 several articles on South African history to the E. B. 



Sir George Henry Lewis, 1st Bart, the famous solicitor; d. in London December 7th. 

 Born in 1833, and educated at University College, London, he was articled in 1856, and 

 became head of the firm of Lewis & Lewis. He was engaged in a very large number of 

 notable public cases, including the Bravo poisoning case, the Hatton Garden diamond rob- 

 bery, and the Overend-Gurney and other banking prosecutions. Later he was solicitor for 

 Mr. Parnell and the Irish party in the Parnell Commission (see E, B. ix, 579 and xx, 855). 

 Sir George Lewis, who was made a baronet in 1893, was for many years the most prominent 

 man in his profession, and had a unique practice, especially in advising on difficult family 

 affairs; he was the trusted confidential adviser of a host of important people. 



Baron Lochee of Gowrie (Edmund Robertson), the jurist and Liberal politician; d. 

 September I3th. Born in Scotland on the 28th of October 1845, and educated at Oxford, 

 he became a fellow of Corpus Christi College in 1872; he was called to the English bar, and 

 became well-known as a jurist, filling the posts of examiner in jurisprudence at Oxford, 

 professor of Roman Law at London University, and Reader in law to the council of legal 

 education. He was Liberal member for Dundee from 1885 until he was raised to the peerage 

 in 1908. In 1892 he became a Civil Lord of the Admiralty, and in 1906 was Secretary to 

 the Admiralty. His writings included a book on American Home Rule, and numerous 

 articles on legal and constitutional subjects in the E. B. 



John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow, the well-known social worker; d; in London October I7th. 

 He was born in 1821, and was called to the bar in 1843. Becoming associated with Kingsley, 

 Hughes and F. D. Maurice, he helped to found the Working Men's College in Great Ormond 

 Street, and was one of the first promoters of the Christian Socialist Moveirient. From 

 1875 to 1890 he was Chief-Registrar of Friendly Societies. He was one of the first members 

 and subsequently president of the labour Co-Partnership Society. 



The Rev. Dr. Norman Macleod, the Scottish divine; d. December nth. The son of the 

 Rev. John Macleod, D.D., he was born at Morven, Argyle, in 1838. He became one of the 

 leading ministers of the Church of Scotland, always with a slight leaning towards the "High 

 Church" section. Beginning his career as minister .of St. Columba's, Glasgow, he was in- 

 ducted to the first charge of Inverness in 1890, was appointed clerk of the General Assembly 

 of the Church of Scotland (an office in which his statesmanlike abilities were widely recog- 

 nised), and in 1900 was elected moderator of the General Assembly. 



John MacWhirter, the Scottish landscape painter; d. in London January 28th. Born 



