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Father John Gerard, the Jesuit; b. 1840; d. December 13th. He was educated at Stony- 

 hurst after becoming a Jesuit, spent a great part of his life as a master at his old school. 

 In 1879 he was appointed its Prefect of Studies, but relinquished the post in 1893 to become 

 editor of The Month. From 1897 to 1900 he was Provincial of the English Jesuits. He pub- 

 lished a refutation of Haeckel in The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer, and various 

 other works, notably The Gunpowder Plot (see E. B. xi, 729a). 



John Griffith, the Welsh Congregationalist missionary in China; b. 1831; d. July 25th. 

 He showed his religious bent very early. He was brought up a Congregationalist, and at the 

 age of eight was admitted to full membership of his chapel, and when only 14 he delivered 

 his first sermon at a prayer meeting. At sixteen he became a regular preacher, and was 

 subsequently trained at the Brecon Congregational College for the ministry. In 1853 he 

 offered his services to the London Missionary Society, and after two years' training sailed 

 for Shanghai in 1855. His work in China covered a period of 55 years. In 1861 he went 

 from Shanghai through the provinces of Central China, which he was the first Christian 

 missionary to penetrate, and he claimed that with his colleagues he had established over 100 

 mission stations in Hu-peh and Hu-nan (see E. B. xviii, 596). He acquired an intimate 

 knowledge of the Chinese language and literature, and translated the New Testament and 

 a great part of the old into more than one Chinese dialect. In the Yangtsze valley he founded 

 a theological college for native preachers, which bears his name. At the end of 1911 his 

 health finally gave way and he returned to England. 



Arthur Wollaston Hutton, Anglican clergyman and author; b. 1849; d. March 25. A 

 scholar of Exeter, Oxford, he took orders in the Church of England in 1872, but under 

 Newman's influence became a Roman Catholic, and from 1876-83 was a member of the 

 Edgbaston Oratorian Community. He changed his views, however, renounced Romanism, 

 and became known as an agnostic and free-thinker; and for some years he was librarian at 

 the National Liberal Club in London. In 1898 he again made a remarkable change, being 

 readmitted to Anglican orders, and from 1903 to his death he was rector of Bow Church, 

 London. His absolute sincerity, strength of conviction, and great intellectual ability and 

 honesty, were recognised by all who knew him. He was the author of a Life of Manning 

 (1892), and of several articles in the E. B. 



Charles Voysey, the Theistic preacher; b. 1828; d. July 2pth. Educated at Stockwell 

 Grammar School and St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, he was ordained in the Anglican Church 

 and held various curacies up to 1860, when he became curate of St. Mark's Whitechapel. 

 Thence he was ejected for heterodox doctrine, and he went to St. Mark's, Victoria Docks, 

 and later to Healaugh near Tadcaster, where he was first curate and then vicar. But in 

 1869 he was summoned before the Chancery Court of the Diocese of York for heterodox 

 teaching, and deprived of his living. He appealed to the Privy Council, but the decision 

 was upheld. He then established a Theistic Church in London, where he continued to 

 preach and teach up to the time of his death. 



In the medical world the following were of most interest: 



Sir William Henry Allchin, physician and author; b. 1846; d. February 8th. He was 

 educated at University College, London, where he afterwards became Lecturer on Anatomy 

 and Physiology, then he was principally associated with Westminster Hospital of which he 

 became Senior Physician. He edited a Manual of Medicine (1903), to which he contributed 

 articles on his special subject of abdominal diseases. He was Harveian Orator (1903); 

 Bradshaw Lecturer (1901) and Lumleian Lecturer (1905); and was knighted in 1907. 



Sir Henry Trentham Butlin, Bart., the surgeon and pathologist; b. 1845; d. January 24th. 

 He received his medical training at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, to which he re- 

 turned after holding posts at the Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street, and at the 

 West London Hospital; and was successively demonstrator, assistant surgeon (1881), and 

 surgeon from 1892-1902. In 1909 he was elected president of the Royal College of Surgeons. 

 His investigations of cancer led him to the theory that the disease is a parasitic growth 

 formed within and from the tissues of its host, which he announced at a Bradshaw lecture of 

 the Royal College of Surgeons in 1905. 



Clinton Thomas Denton, a well-known surgeon and Alpine climber; b. 1850; d. August 

 26th. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was vice-president of the Royal 

 College of Surgeons, senior surgeon to St. George's Hospital, and since 1904 chief surgeon 

 to the Metropolitan Police. He made the first ascent of the Aiguille du Dru, a/ter 18 un- 

 successful attempts, and the first ascent of the Rothhorn from the Zermatt side. He also 

 did much exploration in the Caucasus. Besides many works on surgery he published 

 Above the Snow Line (1885). 



Washington Epps, the homoeopathic physician; b. 1848; d. October I4th. The son of 

 George Napoleon Epps (see E. B. ix, 7o8c), he was for 38 years on the staff of the London 

 Homoeopathic Hospital, and was president of the British Homoeopathic Society. 



William Ogle, physician and author; b. 1828; d. April I2th. He took his medical degree 

 at Oxford and became a Fellow of Corpus. In medical circles he was well-known as chief 

 secretary to the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, Lecturer on Physiology at St. 

 George's Hospital Medical School; but his permanent fame rests on his remarkable edition 

 of Aristotle's De Partibus Animalium, a work of great scholarship and learning. 



