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Thomas Kirkup, the sociologist and economist; b. 1844; d. May 23rd. Starting as a pupil 

 teacher in the village school at Kirk Yetholm, he proceeded thence to Edinburgh University, 

 and studied later at Gottingen, Berlin, Tubingen, Geneva and Paris. Besides many articles 

 on economic subjects for reviews and encyclopaedias (including "Socialism" in the 9th 

 edition of the E. B.) he wrote An Inquiry into Socialism (1887), History of Socialism 

 (1892), South Africa, Old and New (1903), Progress and the Fiscal Problem (1905), and 

 Primer of Socialism (1908). 



Thomas Mackay, economist; b. 1849; d. February 23rd. He was called to the bar but 

 never practised, devoting himself to the study of economics and the English Poor Law, 

 which was the subject of most of his writings. 



Sir Frank Thomas Marzials, C.B., civil servant and man of letters; b. 1840; d. February 

 I4th. He entered the War Office in the fifties and became Accountant-General in 1898, 

 retiring in 1904. As one of the editors of the "Great Writers" series, he contributed to it 

 several volumes, and made an English version of the Chronicle of Villehardouin (1908). 



William Flavelle Monypenny, the biographer of Lord Beacpnsfield; b. 1866; d. November 

 23rd. Of Ulster birth, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and Balliol, Oxford, in 1893 

 he joined the editorial staff of the Times, and early in 1899 became editor of the Johannes- 

 burg Star in the Transvaal. He played an important part, as a publicist, on the side of the 

 Reform party there, and when war came he joined thf Imperial Light Horse and was one 

 of the defenders of Ladysmith. Returning afterwarcL to his position on the Star, he did 

 much to promote Lord Milner's work of reconstruction, but resigned in 1903 owing to his 

 hostility to the introduction of Chinese labour in the mines. He was then entrusted by 

 the Times with the task of writing the official biography of Disraeli, and also did other work 

 for that paper, becoming in 1908 a director of the company. Owing to ill-health the first 

 volume of the Life of Beaconsfield (intended to be in four or five) only appeared in 1910, and 

 the second shortly before his death. 



Edward Williams Byron Nicholson, Bodley's librarian at Oxford; b. 1849; d. March I7th. 

 Educated at Tonbridge and Trinity College, Oxford, in 1873 he became librarian of the 

 London Institution, and in 1877 he founded the International Conference of Librarians and 

 the Library Association. In 1882 he succeeded H. O. Coxe as Bodley's librarian, and did 

 much to bring the library up to date. He published commentaries on the Gospel according 

 to the Hebrews (1879) and St. Matthew (1881), Keltic Researches (1904), papers on com- 

 parative philology, etc. and wrote the article on Mandeville in the E. B. 



Dr. Frederic Seebohm, the historian; b. 1833; d. February 6th. He was a native of 

 Bradford and came of a Quaker family. His interest in problems of modern life, social and 

 religious, led him to study the conditions of English rural life in the past, and the religious 

 movements of the Reformation. In his English Village Community (1853) he dwelt on the 

 survival of Roman influences in agricultural life; and in his Tribal Systems in Wales (1895) 

 he reconstituted a Celtic society from I4th century evidence. 



Bram Stoker, the novelist, for many years secretary to Sir Henry Irving; b. 1847; d. 

 April 2Oth. He was a native of Dublin and was educated there at Trinity College. ; Besides 

 Dracula and other novels, he wrote Personal Reminiscences of Sir Henry Irving, a valuable 

 record of the theatrical history of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. 



The Rev. Duncan Crookes Tovey, biographer and critic; b. 1842; d. September 29th. 

 Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1868 he became assistant master at Haileybury; 

 in 1871 chaplain to Trinity College; in 1874 assistant master at Eton, and in 1886 rector of 

 Worplesden. He was Clark lecturer in English literature at Cambridge in 1897-98, and 

 published Gray and His Friends (1890), an edition of Gray's poems, The Letters of Thomas 

 Gray (1900-12), an edition of Thomson's poems, and Reviews and Essays (1897). He 

 wrote the articles on Thomson and Gray in the E.. B. 



English music suffered a premature loss by the death of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; 

 b. 1875; d. September 1st. Of Anglo-African parentage, his father being a native of Sierra 

 Leone and his mother an Englishwoman, he was educated at the Royal College of Music, 

 entering as a violinist in 1891. In 1893 he won an open scholarship for composition, and 

 studied for four years under Sir Charles Stanford. In 1898 his cantata Hiawatha's Wedding 

 Feast was produced in London with marked success, and was followed by two other cantatas, 

 The Death of Minnehaha and The Departure of Hiawatha (see E. B. xix, 853). This trilogy 

 was first given complete at the Albert Hall, London, in looo. The Blind Girl of Castel 

 Cuille was given in Leeds in 1901, Meg Blane at Sheffield in 1902, and an oratorio, The 

 Atonement, at Hereford in 1903. He also produced Endymion's Dream and the Bon Bon 

 suite (1908-09), and A Tale of Old Japan (1911). 



In the art-world the following may be mentioned : 



Robert Wiedemann Barrett Browning (b. 1849; d ; at Asolo, in Italy, July 8th), the only 

 son of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (see E. B. iv, 668a et seq.). He became a 

 painter, studying under M. Heyermanns at Antwerp, and in 1875 had his first picture, "The 

 Armourer, " exhibited at the Royal Academy. He had other pictures hung in the Paris Salon, 

 and at Paris he also studied sculpture under Rodin. He bought and restored the Palazzo 

 Rezzonico in Venice, where his father died, making it a museum to his parents" memory, 



