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Coast as private secretary to Sir Garnet (Lord) Wolseley. After seeing service in South 

 Africa and in the Egyptian campaign of 1882, he held the post of professor of Military 

 History at the Staff College, and was gazetted a major-general in 1895. It was, however, 

 less on active service than as a student of war and national problems and as a thinker and 

 writer that most of his work was achieved, between 1871, when he was awarded the Welling- 

 ton prize for his essay on field manoeuvres, and 1906-08, when he brought out the official 

 history of the South African War. His published works include a Life of his father (1884), 

 Hostilities without Declaration of War (1883), The Balance of Military Power in Europe 

 (1888), National Defence (1897), War (1891), an expansion of his article in the E. B. (gth 

 ed.)i and the Diary of Sir John Moore, with notes. In 1907 he was awarded the Chesney 

 Gold Medal of the Royal United Service Institution for his writings. One of his sons, Hugh 

 Alexander, was killed at Delhi, in a railway accident, on the 22nd of January 1912, ten days 

 after the death of his father. 



General Sir Charles John Stanley Gough; b. 1832, grand-nephew of Viscount Gough 

 (E. B. xii, 281); d. September 6th. He went to India at the age of sixteen, where he joined 

 the 8th Bengal Cavalry and served through the Punjab campaign of 1848-49. . During the 

 Mutiny he and his brother (afterwards General Sir Hugh Gough, keeper of the Crown Jewels) 

 joined the Guide Corps, and took part in many actions, including the relief of Lucknow. He 

 won the Victoria Cross. He served in the Bhutan expedition of 1864, and commanded a 

 cavalry brigade in the Peshawar Valley Field Force during the Afghan War of iSyS.. He 

 commanded the Hyderabad contingent from 1881-85, and a division of the Bengal Army 

 from 1886-90. He published The Sikhs and the Sikh Wars in 1897. 



Major-General Sir Frederick Walter Kitchener; b. 1858, brother of Lord Kitchener 

 (E. B. xv, 838); d. March 6th. He was with Lord Roberts in the Afghan War of 1878-80. 

 From 1891-96 he was Deputy Assistant Adjutant General for Instruction in India. He 

 accompanied the Dongola expedition of 1896 as director of Transport, and in 1899 filled the 

 same post in Lord Kitchener's march to Khartum (see E. B. ix, 1303). He served under 

 Sir Redvers Buller in South Africa, taking part in the relief of Ladysmith. In 1908 he was 

 appointed Governor of Bermuda, where he died. 



Religion was represented by the following notable names: 



John Sheepshanks, formerly Bishop of Norwich; b. 1834; d. June 3rd. Educated at the 

 Grammar School, Coventry, and Christ's College, Cambridge, he was ordained in 1857 to a 

 curacy under Dr. Hook, vicar of Leeds; but in 1859 he went out to British Columbia to be 

 chaplain to its bishop and rector of New Westminster. His eight years' work amongst 

 settlers, miners and lumbermen, taught him an unconventionality of outlook and methods 

 which remained with him throughout his clerical career. He published his experiences under 

 the title of A Bishop in the Rough. In 1868 he returned to England, and after five years 

 in the Yorkshire parish of Bilton, near Harrogate, he was presented to St. Margaret Airfield, 

 Liverpool, where he came under the notice of Mr. Gladstone, who in 1893 offered him the 

 bishopric of Norwich. He held the see till 1910, when he resigned owing to ill health. Among 

 his other publications were My Life in Mongolia and Siberia .(1903), The Pastor in his Parish 

 (1908), and volumes of sermons and addresses. 



Charles William Stubbs, Bishop of Truro; b. 1843; d. May 4th. His father and grand- 

 father were Yorkshire agriculturists, and throughout his life he took a strong interest in the 

 welfare of the agricultural labourer. He published three volumes on the subject, Village 

 Politics (1878), The Land and the Labourers (1890), and Christ and Democracy (1883). He 

 was a strong Liberal with somewhat socialistic views, and was preferred by Mr. Gladstone 

 to the living of Stokenham and Chivelstone in Devon in 1884. In 1887 he was transferred 

 to Liverpool, becoming rector of Wavertree. In 1893 Mr. Gladstone made him dean of 

 Ely. There he remained till 1905 when Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman made him Bishop 

 of Truro. He was Hulsean Lecturer at Cambridge in 1904, and published his lectures under 

 the title The Christ in English Poetry (1905). His other published works include A Creed 

 for Christian Socialists (1896) and a Handbook to Ely Cathedral (1898). 



George William Kitchin, Dean of Durham; b. 1827; d. October I3th. Educated at the 

 Ipswich Grammar School, King's College, London, and Christ Church, Oxford, he graduated 

 in 1850, the only double first-class man of his year, and was ordained in 1852. He became 

 a schoolmaster, but returned to Oxford as tutor at Christ Church in 1863. He undertook 

 the organisation and control of the non-collegiate students, admitted by the University- 

 after 1868, becoming their first Censor and holding the office till 1883, when he became 

 Dean of Winchester. In 1894 he was appointed Dean of Durham, becoming also first 

 Warden and then Chancellor of Durham University. He published a History of France 

 ('873-77), Life of Pope Pius II (1881), and various books on Winchester and Durhami > 



George Evan Moule, Anglican missionary Bishop in China; b. 1828; d. March 3rd. 

 Having graduated from C.C.C., Cambridge, and taken orders in 1851, he was sent out in 

 1857 to China by the Church Missionary Society. In 1861 he was joined by his brother the 

 Rev. Arthur K. Moule, and with him worked for over 50 years, at first at Ning-po, but prin- 

 cipally at Hang-chow. In 1880 he was consecrated first Bishop of Mid-China, and his work 

 steadily developed till his resignation in 1908. Bishop Moule was a Chinese scholar, and 

 translated the Prayer-book into classical Chinese. 



