OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (PAEKB ROMAINE.) 



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April, 1898. Ho entered the UflTJ fal 18M,MeonjM>- 



ni.. I Dumontd'Urvillc us ensign on his voyage of dis- 

 covery hi I:i6, became a lieutenant in 183*2. navi- 

 gated I" Chirm tin- " Arehiincde," \vliidi was tlic first 

 steamer thut doubled tin- ('HIM-, was promoted captain 

 in IMii, ami in the Crimean Wtf OOQUIUUldad a vessel 

 with such ability u*> to gain tin: grade of rear-admiral, 

 and \\ :i> made vice admiral in 1864. He wan tlie 

 anthr of a dictionary of .-train navigation and a 

 treat isi: on the screw i>roiudlrr. 



Parke. Thomas Heazle, Irish African explorer, bom 

 in l>nnnoini. County Kosrommon, in 1857; died Sept. 

 '.', ivi'l. He was educated as a surgeon, received a 

 commission on the. medical stuff of the British army 

 in 1881. wont to Egypt in 1882, and distinguished 

 hiin.-rlt' in the campaign, in the cholera epidemic, 

 and in the expedition for the relief of Gen. Gordon. 

 In 1887-'89 he crossed Africa with Henry M. Stanley, 

 and performed an important part in the Emin 1'ashu 

 relief expedition with .-kill and courage. He pub- 

 lished several works, of which the last was "Guide to 

 Health in Africa" (1893). 



Paulet, Lord William, English general, born July 7, 

 1804: died in London, May 9 ? 1893. He was a son of 

 the thirteenth Marquis of Winchester, was educated 

 at Eton, entered the army in 1821, was promoted at 

 the usual rate of speed, was made equerry of the 

 Duke of Cambridge in 1851, served through the 

 Crimean War, was commander at Scutari in 1855, and 

 after that saw no more active service, but held high 

 appointments at home and was employed in diplo- 

 matic capacities. He became colonel of the Durham 

 Light Infantry in 1864, was made a general in 1874, 

 and in 1886 a field marshal. 



Pearson, Emma Maria, English philanthropist and 

 writer, died in Florence, Italy, in June, 1893. She 

 was the daughter of a naval officer, became a nurse 

 of the Red Cross, and gained a reputation in the 

 'Franco-German War by her services in nursing the 

 sick and wounded at Sedan and Orleans. Afterward 

 she engaged in the same work in Servia and else- 

 where. She wrote much for the " St. James Gazette" 

 and other periodicals, and published a book of travels. 



Pettie, John. British artist, born in Edinburgh, March 

 17, 1889; died in Hastings, England, Feb. 21,1893. 

 He learned to paint in Edinburgh under the instruc- 

 tion of Robert Scott Louder and John Ballantyne, 

 and at the age of nineteen exhibited there a " Scene 

 from the Fortunes of Nigel." At twenty-one he ex- 

 hibited " The Armorers" at the Royal Academy, and 

 the honor that he got from this picture determined 

 him to establish himself in London. He was elected 

 an associate of the Royal Academy in 1806 and an 

 academician in 1873. Besides historical scenes based 

 largely on Sir Walter Scott's novels, he painted some 

 humorous compositions and many portraits. Among 

 the best known of his works are "Jacobites," "Trea- 

 son," " Hunted Down,'' " Juliet and Friar Lawrence," 

 " The Flay of Truce," " Terms to the Besieged," " A 

 Sword-and-D agger Fight," "The Disgrace of Cardi- 

 nal Wolsey," "Touchstone and Audrey," "Sanctu- 

 ary," " The Death Warrant," " A State Secret," " The 

 Vigil," " Interview of the Duke of Monmputh with 

 .lames II," "The Defiance," and "Bonnie Prince 

 Charlie." The last two were exhibited at Chicago. 



Pike, Richard, arctic navigator, born in Carbohear, 

 Conception Bay, in 1834; died in St John, New- 

 foundland, May 4, 1898. He followed the sea from 

 his early youtn ; first took command of a sealing 

 steamer in 1869; and in 1881 conveyed the Grcely 

 expedition to its destination in the " Proteus." In 

 1883 he took the search expedition of Lieut. Garling- 

 ton, which ended in failure. In 1891 he landed 

 Liuut. Peary's exploring expedition to McCormack 

 Bay, and in 1892 went north again with the expedi- 

 tion for Peary's relief. 



Place. Charles Philippe. Frencli prelate, born in Paris, 

 Fel.. 14, 1814; died in Rennes, March 5, 1893. He 

 studied law, and took his degree in 1841 ; afterward 

 entered the French diplomatic service, and soon 

 abandoned this to take holy orders. He was an able 



preacher, and in 1878 was made Archbishop of 



Keiines. He was created a cardinal on June 7, 1886, 

 at the same time an Archbishop (iilil/orin. 



Potter. George, English trade-unionist, born in Ken- 

 il worth, in IK;:>; died in London, June 8, 1893. He 



rved his apprenticeship with a carpenter of Coven 

 try ; went to London in l. r >4 ; became a leader of the 

 trade union, and was the directing spirit in the lock- 

 out of the building trades in 1859. He also beaded 

 the workingmen who welcomed Garibaldi. As editor 

 of the "Beehive" and the " Industrial Review," and 

 a contributor to various periodicals, he established a 

 high reputation as a writer on social and labor n - 

 form and an exponent of the old trade-unionism. He 

 opened the first trade-union congress in London in 

 1868: was an unsuccessful candidate for Parliament 

 in 1874, and again in 1886; and was a member from 

 1873 till 1882 of th London School Board. 



Pratt, Anna English botanist, born in Strood, near 

 Rochester, in 1806; died July 27, 1893. Shepublished 

 u Flowers and their Associations " at the age of twen- 

 ty, and, devoting her life to the study of plants, wrote 

 with a deep knowledge and love of nature " The 

 Field, the Garden, and the Woodland," " Wild Flow- 

 ers," " Catechism of Botany," " Poisonous Plants," 

 " Common Things of the Seashore," and other books, 

 which were illustrated with her own artistic sketches. 

 Her principal work was one on " Flowering Plants 

 and Ferns of Great Britain," illustrated with colored 

 plates, which she revised for re-issue in a popular 

 edition in 1880. 



Piitchard, Charles, English astronomer, born Feb. 29, 

 1808: died in Oxford, May 28, 1893. He was grad- 

 uated at Cambridge in 1830 ; was chosen a fellow of 

 St. John's College; for many years was head master 

 of Clapham Grammar School ; and in 1870 was elected 

 Suviliun Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, where he 

 superintended the new observatory. In conjunction 

 with Prof. Pickering, of Harvard, he determined the 

 magnitude of all the stars of the Northern Hemi- 

 sphere that are visible to the naked eve. and received 

 a medal from the Royal Astronomical Society in 1886 

 for his discoveries in stellar photometry, and was 

 president of the society for that year, lie preached 

 often before Oxford and Cambridge Universities, 

 wrote many astronomical articles in cyclopaedias, 

 described his experiments and discoveries in the 

 " Transactions of the Astronomical Society," and pub- 

 lished, in 1890, " Occasional Thoughts of an Astrono- 

 mer on Nature and Revelation." 



Bae. John, Scottish arctic explorer, born in the Ork- 

 ney Islands, in 1813 ; died in London, July 21, 1898. 

 He studied medicine in Edinburgh, obtained his sur- 

 geon's diploma in 1833, was appointed surgeon on a 

 ship of the Hudson Bay Company, began his geo- 

 graphical explorations in 1846 by surveying 700 miles 

 of tne northern coast of America, filling the gap be- 

 tween Parry's and Ross's discoveries, went witn Sir 

 John Richardson in search of Sir John Franklin in 

 1848, visiting the coast l>rt \\ , n the Mackenzie and 

 Coppermine rivers, set out in command of an expedi- 

 tion in 1850 and explored Wollaston Land and the 

 coast east of the Coppermine, with Victoria Land, and 

 undertook a third search expedition in -1858, when 

 he proved King William's Land to be an island, and 

 found evidence that Franklin's ships were lost. Dr. 

 Rae's narratives were not universally believed. 



Romaine. W. OK, English administrator, bom about 

 ls i j."> ; died in the beginning of May, 1893. He was a 

 barrister without practice, but with many friends, 

 when the British unny departed for the Crimea in 

 1854, and, being fond of travel and adventure, he ob- 

 tained the appointment of deputy judge-advocate. 

 There he devoted himself voluntarily to the task of 

 making comfortable and feeding the wounded of both 

 sides. On his return he presented himself as a Lib- 

 eral candidate in Clapham, but was defeated by a 

 few votes. From 1857 till 1869 he was permanent 

 Secretary of the Admiralty, and then he was ap- 

 pointed Judge- Advocate General of India. In 1876 no 

 went to Egypt us a member of the Conseil du Trdsor, 



