BRITISH OBITUARY 1912 54S 



Katherine Cecil Thurston, the novelist; d. at Cork September 6th. The daughter of 

 Mr. Paul Madden, she was born at Cork, and in 1901 married Ernest Temple Thurston, 

 the novelist, the marriage being dissolved on her petition in 1910. Her chief publications 

 were The Circle (1903), John Chilcote, M.P. (1904), The Fly on the Wheel (1908). j 



Sir Samuel Walker, 1st Bart., Lord Chancellor of Ireland; d. at Dublin August I3th. 

 Born in County Westmeath in 1832, he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and called 

 to the Bar in 1855. He was Liberal Member for Londonderry from 1884-85, and was 

 appointed Attorney General for Ireland in 1885. From 1892 to 1895 he was Lord Chancellor 

 of Ireland, and again from 1905 till his death. 



Robert Spejace Watson, a prominent Liberal politician; d. at Gateshead-on-Tyne, March 

 2nd. Born at Gateshead in 1837, he came of an old Quaker family. He was educated at 

 the Friend's School, York, and London University, and then went into practice as a solicitor; 

 but later he became well-known as an enthusiastic worker for the Liberal cause in politics. 

 Though he never entered Parliament, he had a potent influence in north-country constit- 

 uencies, and was president of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Liberal Association (1873-90) 

 and also of the National Liberal Association (1891-1902). He held the honorary degree of 

 LL.D. from St. Andrews and D.C.L. from Durham Universities; and in 1907 the Liberal 

 Government made him a Privy Councillor. 



Rosamund Marriott Watson, the authoress; d. December 29 th. She was a daughter of 

 Mr. Benjamin Williams Ball, and was born in London in 1863.. As Graham Tomson (the 

 surname being that of her first husband) and also after her second marriage to the novelist 

 H. B. Marriott Watson, she published some charming verse, besides books in prose and 

 several anthologies, including a Selection from the Greek Anthology (1889) and Concerning 

 Cats (1890). 



James Galloway Weir, the Liberal politician; b. 1841; d. May i8th. He had been M.P. 

 for Ross and Cromarty since 1892. 



Charles J. Wertheimer, the art-dealer and collector; b. 1842, d. April 25th. His fine 

 collection was sold for a large sum after his death. 



1912 



During 1912 the following persons died, on whom biographical articles are included 

 in the E. B.: 



Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, the painter; b. 1836; d. at Wiesbaden on the 25th of June. 

 (See E. B. i, 712.) 



Edward Arber, the Early-English scholar; b. 1836; d. in London, November 23rd. 

 (See E. B. ii, 323.) 



William Blackwood, the Edinburgh publisher; b. 1836; d. November loth (see E. B. iv, 

 27); he had edited Blackwodd's Magazine since 1879. 



William Booth, "General" and founder of the Salvation Army; b. 1829; d. in London on 

 the 2Oth of August (see E. B. iv, 239d; and for the Salvation Army, E. B. xxiv, lood). 

 Towards the close of his life he became blind through cataract, losing the sight of one eye 

 in 1909, and of the other after an operation three months before his death. But he had 

 continued to direct the operations of the army and learned to write without the aid of sight. 

 As late as 1909 he had undertaken his sixth motor-car campaign. His last public appearance 

 was made at the Albert Hall, London, on the 9th of May 1912 at a meeting to celebrate his 

 83rd birthday. 



Sir George Howard Darwin, professor of astronomy and experimental philosophy at 

 Cambridge (see E. B. vii, 843d.); b. 1845; d. December 7th. The second son of Charles 

 Darwin, he was 2nd Wrangler and Smith's Prizeman at Cambridge, and was elected to his 

 professorship in 1883. His principal work was on the subject of tides, on which he became the 

 leading authority, and on other physical questions connected with the relation of the earth 

 and moon; and the article "Tide" in the E. B. (xxvi, 938 et seq.) remains a unique expression 

 of his matured researches on his special subject. 



Andrew Martin Fairbairn, the Congregationalist divine, ex-principal of Mansfield College, 

 Oxford; b. 1838; d. in London on the 9th of February. (See E. B. x, 129.) 



James Gairdner, the archivist and historian; b. 1828; d. at Pinner, on the 4th of Novem- 

 ber. (See E. B. xi, 390.) 



George Grossmith, the actor and entertainer; b. 1847; d. at Folkestone on the ist of 

 March. (See E.'B. xii, 619.) 



Octavia Hillj the social reformer; b. 1838; d. in London on the I3th of August. (See 

 E. B. xiii, 465 and 823.) 



Andrew Lang, the eminent writer; b. 1844; d. at Banchory, N.B., on the 2Oth of July. 

 (See E. B. xvi, 171.) 



Lord Lister, .the great surgeon; b. 1828; d. at Walmer on the roth of February. (See 

 E. B. xvi, 777; and for his discoveries in antiseptic surgery, xxvi, 129 et seq.) 



Justin McCarthy, the Irish politician, historian and novelist; b. 1831; d. at Folkestone 

 on the 24th of April. (See E. B. xviii, 2Ood.) 



Lord Peel, ex-speaker of the House of Commons; b. 1829; d. at Sandy, Beds., on the 

 24th of October. (See E. B. xxi, 39d.) 



