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near Edinburgh in 1839, he began his art training under Robert Scott Lauder, and was elected 

 a member of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1867, an associate of the Royal Academy in 

 1879 and R.A. in 1893. Hjs June in the Austrian Tyrol was bought in 1892 out of the 

 Chantrey bequest. 



Margaret Macdonald (Mrs. Ramsay Macdonald); b. 1870; d. in London Sept. 8th. A 

 daughter of Dr. J. H. Gladstone (E. B. xii, 66), she devoted herself to social work, both 

 before and after her marriage in 1896 to Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, who became leader of the 

 Labour party. She was the first President of the Women's Labour League (1906). 



Bishop Francis Paget of Oxford; d. in London August 2nd. The second son of the surgeon 

 Sir James Paget (see E. B. 20, 45ib), he was born on the 2Oth of March 1851. His brothers, 

 Sir John R. Paget, K.C., 2nd Bart., the lawyer (b. 1848), the Rt. Rev. Luke Paget, Bishop of 

 Stepney since 1909 (b. 1853), and Stephen Paget, the surgeon and author (b. 1855), all be- 

 came well-known men. Francis Paget was educated at Shrewsbury and Christ Church, 

 Oxford, where he had a distinguished career, taking first classes in classics, winning the 

 Hertford scholarship (1871) and Chancellor's Latin Verse Prize (1871); he was elected a 

 senior student of Christ Church (1873) an d tutor (1876), taking holy orders in 1875. In 

 1885 he was appointed Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology, and in 1892 succeeded Canon 

 Liadell as Dean of Christ Church. He contributed the essay on the Sacraments to Lux 

 Mundi. He became Bishop of Oxford in 1901, and was a Member of the Royal Commis- 

 sion on Ecclesiastical Discipline from 1904-06. 



Sir Cuthbert Quilter, 1st Bart., English financier and art collector, d. at Woodbridge, 

 Suffolk, November i8th. He was born in 1841. He made a considerable fortune in business, 

 and took an active interest in scientific agriculture, doing much to reclaim waste lands at 

 Bawdsey, SuFolk, and also in the improvement of horse-breeding (he revived the all but 

 extinct Suffolk "Punch"). He was a great picture-buyer, and acquired a collection of 

 paintings which realised over 87,000 at his death. He sat in Parliament as Liberal Unionist 

 member for Sudbury from 1885 to 1906, and for some years earnestly advocated the passing 

 of a Pure Beer Bill, with the object of restricting the use of substitutes for hops; he himself 

 started a brewery at Woodbridge in order to put his views into practice. 



Alberto Randegger, the musical composer and conductor; d. in London December i8th. 

 Born in Trieste in 1832, he had settled in London in 1854 after holding various musical appoint- 

 ments in Italy. Both as an orchestral conductor, and as a teacher of music and sinking 

 he held for many years a leading position in London; he published a number of original 

 compositions, and a host of prominent artists were his pupils, either privately or at the Royal 

 Academy (from 1868) and Royal College (from 1896). Besides conducting on various occa- 

 sions at the Royal Opera, musical festivals and elsewhere, he did much, as conductor of the 

 Carl Rosa company from 1879, towards the popular revival of opera in England. 



The Rev. James Guinness Rogers, the Congregationalist divine, b. 1822; d. August 2Oth. 

 He is best remembered for his close association with Dr. Dale in the Liberal- Nonconformist 

 Education and disestablishment campaigns of 1865-75, and for his friendship with Mn 

 Gladstone and Lord Rosebery, who consulted him as the foremost representative of Noncon- 

 formist statesmanship. 



" Lord " George Sanger, the circus-proprietor; b. 1827, murdered at Finchley on Nov. 

 28th. He had at one time the largest travelling circus in Europe. 



Elliot Stock, the Nonconformist publisher, bibliophile, and author; b. 1837; d. March 1st. 



Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne, the mineralogist; d. at Swindon, May 2Oth. 

 Born in 1823, he was descended on the mother's side from Nevil Maskelyne, the Astronomer 

 Royal. He was Professor of Mineralogy at Oxford from 1865-95, and also the first Keeper 

 of the Minerals at the British Museum, relinquishing that post in 1879. In 1880 he entered 

 Parliament as Liberal member for Cricklade, and represented North Wilts as a Liberal 

 Unionist from 1885-92. He studied especially crystallography, meteorites and gem-stones, 

 and was the author of many scientific papers, and of a book on the Morphology of Crystals. 



" Hesba Stretton " (Sarah Smith), the authoress; d. near Richmond October 8th. She 

 was born at Church Stretton in 1832, and wrote for Household Words under the editorship 

 of Charles Dickens, who became a personal friend. She was well known as the writer of 

 Jessica's First Prayer and other religious tales. 



Baron Swaythling (Samuel Montagu), the well known financier; d. in London January 

 I2th. He was born at Liverpool on the 2ist of December 1832, and came of a Jewish family 

 named Samuel, but afterwards took by royal licence the name of Montagu. Beginning in 

 early life in a very humble way of business, he gradually acquired great wealth by enlarging 

 its scope, and he rose to the head of the most important arbitrage house in the City of London. 

 A strong Liberal in politics, he sat in parliament for the Tower Hamlets from 1885 to 1900; 

 he was a member of the Gold and Silver Commission of 1887-90, being himself a bi-metallist. 

 He was created a baronet in 1894, and raised to the peerage in 1907. Throughout his life 

 he was a zealous promoter of Jewish interests, founding the loan fund of the Jewish Board of 

 Guardians, the Jewish Working Men's Club and several synagogues, and for his work on 

 emigration schemes for the persecuted Russian Jews he made many journeys in Europe and 

 America, succeeding Sir Julian Goldsmid as chairman of the Russo-Jewish committee. He 

 also helped to establish a modern secular school for Jews at Jerusalem in 1875. 



