S54 BRITISH OBITUARY 



but it was subsequently sold and he lived at Asolo and Florence. His portrait : of his father 

 hangs in Balliol College, Oxford. 



Eduardo de Martino, the marine painter (l>. 1838; d. May 2ist). He was a native of 

 Italy, and was educated at the Naval College in Naples. After serving as an officer in the 

 Italian navy until 1867 he went to Brazil, married a Brazilian lady, became a member of the 

 Rio de Janeiro Academy of Fine Arts, and was attached to the Court of Dom Pedro II, 

 Emperor of Brazil, for whom he painted several pictures, besides making a number of sketches 

 during the Paraguayan War. In 1875 he came to England and became marine painter to 

 Queen Victoria. 



John Leighton, the designer and illustrator (b. 1822; d. September 1 5th). The son of a 

 London book-binder, at an early age he began designs for book-covers; in later life he was a 

 prolific designer of book-plates (see E. B. iv, 2333), and wrote and illustrated the Book 

 Plate Annual from 1894-99. He did much work as a book illustrator in the sixties and 

 seventies, one of his best productions being The Life of Man Symbolised by the Months of 

 the Vear (1866.) 



Charles Brinsley Marlay, a well-known art-collector (b. 1831 ; d. June i8th). He inherit- 

 ed extensive Irish estates from the last Earl of Belvedere, and his sister married the 7th 

 Duke of Rutland. He was a connoisseur of Italian art, and a frequent exhibitor of pictures, 

 porcelains, etc., at the Burlington Fine Arts Club and elsewhere. He bequeathed his col- 

 lection of all kinds to Cambridge University, together with 80,000 for the Fitzwilliam 

 Museum. 



Sir John Edward Arthur Murray Scott, Bart., a trustee of the National Gallery (b. 1847; 

 d. January I7th). The son of an English doctor at Boulogne, he became secretary to Sir 

 Richard Wallace (see E. B. xxviii, 2773), heir of the 4th Marquess of Hertford. He helped 

 Sir Richard to organise relief for the sufferers of the siege of Paris in 1870, and after the 

 siege, to transport the treasures of the Hertford Art Collection from Paris to Bethnal Green 

 Museum. It was_ largely through his influence that Sir Richard Wallace's widow left the 

 collection en bloc to the British nation, together with Hertford House (see E. B. xix, 62!)), 

 and he acted as chairman of the trustees' committee until his death. 



English sport lost well-known representatives in John Moyer Heathcote (b. 1834; d. July 

 1 2th), formerly amateur champion at tennis (see E. B. xxvi, 6303, b); and William Storer 

 (b. 1868; d. February 28th), the Derbyshire professional wicket-keeper and batsman, who 

 played cricket for England against Australia in 1893 an< ^ I &99- 



A magnate of the music-hall world died in Sir Edward Moss (b. 1852; d. November 25th), 

 who had been the principal pioneer in the changes by which the modern "variety entertain- 

 ment" has been so successfully established. His first Empire Theatre was opened at Edin- 

 burgh in 1877, and gradually others were built elsewhere, till "Moss's Empires" (which 

 became a company under that name) numbered in 1912 over twenty houses, and the business 

 represented a capital of over 2,000,000. He was knighted in 1905. 



The deaths of several well-known women must also be recorded : 



Louisa Twining, the socialreformcr, b. 1820; d. September 25th. In early life she was 

 an artist, and published Symbols and Emblems of Mediaeval Christian Art (1852) and Types 

 and Figures of the Bible (1854). In 1853, however, she became interested in movements for 

 social reform (see E. B. iv, 8iia),and began the work in connection with the Poor L*aw to 

 which she devoted the rest, of her life. In March 1861 she helped to establish a home for 

 workhouse girls sent out to service, and in 1864 a Workhouse Visiting Society. In 1867 an 

 act was passed separating infirmaries from workhouses, and after twelve more years of 

 work Miss Twining in 1879 established the Workhouse Infirmary Nursing Association. She 

 was a Poor Law Guardian for Kensington from 1884-90, and for Tonbridge Union from 

 1893-96. She promoted the opening ot Lincoln's Inn Fields to the public, helped to start 

 the Metropolitan and National Association for nursing the poor in their homes, did much to 

 secure the appointment of police matrons, and was president of the Women's Local Govern- 

 ment Society. She published Recollections of Life and Work (1894), Workhouse and Pauper- 

 ism (1898), and many papers on poor law subjects. 



Dr. Sophia Jex-Blake, the pioneer lady doctor, b. 1840, died at Mark Cross, Sussex, 

 on the 7th of January. From 1858-61 she was mathematical tutor at Queen's College, Lon- 

 don. She subsequently set out on a tour of inspection of girls' education institutions, and 

 in America became a pupil of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwelt (E. B. xxv, 957d). In 1866 Miss 

 Jex-Blake began a course of study in Boston under Dr. Lucy Sewall. In 1868 she returned 

 to England and applied to the University of London for admission to their medical examina- 

 tions. Being refused, she returned to the L^nivcrsity of Edinburgh and was told that they 

 roulcl not admit one lady only. She got others to join her, and finally in 1869 they were 

 admitted to classes, in 1870 to the hospitals, though here they encountered much riotous 

 hostility from a section of the male students. The university, however, still refused to 

 allow graduation, and after some legal proceedings and much expense Miss Jex-Blake in 

 1874 went to London, where she took a leading part in establishing the London School of 

 Medicine for women. In 1877 this was associated with the Royal Free Hospital, and in the 

 same year Miss Jex-Blake obtained the M.D. degree of Bern. She was also admitted a 



