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licentiate of tlie College of Physicians, Dublin, and member in 1880. She began practice in 

 Edinburgh in 1878 and opened a dispensary there for women and children. In 1886 she 

 founded the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women. She retired in 1899. Besides 

 various medical works she published American Schools and Colleges (1886), and Medical 

 Women (1872). 



Victoria, Lady Welby, b. 1837, died at Harrow on the 29th of March. She was the 

 daughter of the Hon. Charles Stuart- Wortley, brother of the first Lord Wharncliffe, her moth- 

 er being Lady Emmeline Manners, sister of the 6th and 7th Dukes of Rutland. She was 

 in the household of the Duchess of Kent from 1858-61, and from 1861-63 was makl of honour 

 to Queen Victoria. In 1863 she married Sir William Welby-Gregory, Bart., who died in 1898. 

 She published in 1881 Links and Clues, a collection of religious papers. In later life she 

 worked on the subject of signifies, or the study of the correct philosophic and scientific, 

 use of language. She corresponded with a large circle of scientific men and philosophers, 

 and she published What is Meaning?, Signifies and Language (1911), and was the author 

 of the article "Signifies" in the E. B. 



Rosa Morison, the educational pioneer; b. 1841; d. February 8th. She was one of the 

 founders of College Hall, Byng Place, as a residence for women students in London; and was 

 vice-principal (her friend Miss Grove being principal) from 1882-1900. In 1883 she was 

 appointed as the first Lady Superintendent of Women Students at University College, 

 a post which she held till her death. 



Catherine Marsh; b. 1818; d. December I2th. Author of Memorials of Captain 

 Hedley Vicars, English Hearts and English Hands, and well known for her philanthropic 

 work among British navies. 



Marian Rebecca Hughes, Mother Superior of St. Thomas's Sisterhood, Holy Trinity 

 Convent, Oxford; b. 1817; d. at Oxford on the 7th of May. She became the first Anglican 

 nun on the 6th of June 1841 (see E. B. xxv, l6oc). At first she was directed by John Henry 

 Newman, afterwards for fifty years by Edward Bouverie Pusey, who took an active part in 

 establishing Anglican sisterhoods, and finally by Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln. Under 

 her rule the sisterhood prosi>ered; schools were established for girls of all classes, a printing 

 press was set up, and a Convent Magazine, issued. Much work was also done amongst the 

 poor of Oxford, and memorable service was rendered b}' the Mother during the cholera 

 epidemic of 1866. 



Lady Lindsay, the verse-writer and painter, died in London in August. The daughter of 

 the Rt. Hon. Henry Fitzroy, who married Miss Hannah Mayer de Rothschild, and grand- 

 daughter of the 2nd Lord Southampton, she married Sir Coutts Lindsay in 1864, and for 

 30 years before her death had lived in London or Venice, gathering a circle of friends about her 

 which included G. F. Watts, Alma-Tadema and Browning. She collected a number of fine 

 pictures, some of which she left in the National Gallery. She wrote several volumes of verse, 

 which hardly won the attention they deserved, among them From a Venetian Balcony, and 

 Poems of Love and Death. 



Margaret Hunt, the novelist, b, 1831, widow of the painter A. W. Hunt (E. B. xiii, 934), 

 d. in London on November 1st. Her best known book was Thornicroft' s Model. 



Mrs. De Courcy Laffan, the novelist, d. in London on the 5th of September. She married 

 first Surgeon-General Leith Adams and secondly the Rev. R. S. de Courcy Laffan, for some 

 years headmaster of Cheltenham. As Mrs. Leith Adams she published a number of novels, 

 beginning with Winstowe (1877) and including My Land of Beulah (1880), Louis Draycott 

 (1891) and The Peyton Romance (1894). She also published two plays in 1906 and a volume 

 of poems in 1907. 



Mrs. Stanhope Forbes, the painter, b. 1859; d. at Newlyn, Cornwall, on the i6th of March. 

 A native of Canada, but educated in New York, as Miss Elizabeth Armstrong she became 

 known as an etcher and a painter of the Newlyn School (see E. B. xx, 49_9c). In 1889 she 

 married Mr. Stanhope Forbes, R.A. Many of her pictures were exhibited at the Royal 

 Academy and the Paris Salon, and she was an associate of the Royal Society of Painters 

 in Water Colours. 



Emily Soldene, the singer and actress, b. 1840; d. in London on. the 8th of April. She 

 appeared in Genevieve de Brabant, her special role, in 1871, and in La Fille de Madame Angot 

 in 1872. Her greatest successes were made in opcra-bouffe. She retired from the stage 

 for some thirty years before her death. '? .; ' 



Florence St. John, the actress, b. 1854, d. in London on the 3Oth of January. She went 

 on the stage as a vocalist at the age of fourteen. Her chief early successes were made in light 

 comic opera, notably as Germaine in Les Cloches de .CorncviUe, and in Madame Favart, and 

 for many years she played leading r61es in musical comedy and burlesque. 



Beryl Faber, the actress, d. in London on. the ist of May. She married Mr. Gosmo 

 Hamilton, formerly editor of the World, and began her stage career as an amateur. She was 

 the original Clarice in The Masqueraders by H. A. Jones (1894) and Ellean in The Second 

 Mrs. Tanqueray, and appeared in several of Sir Arthur Pinero's other plays. 



Mrs. Lewis Waller (Florence West), the actress; b. 1862; d. November I4th (see E. B. 

 xxviii, 



