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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (JACQUE LE CARON.) 



turns, stimulated the ingenuity of others and led to 

 discoveries that have supplanted his system. 



Jacque, Charles Emile, a French artist', born in Paris, 

 in 1813 ; died there, Oct. 15, IS'.i-i. He was first a map 

 engraver, then enlisted and served seven years as a 

 soldier, and after he left the army, in 1837, he worked 

 seven years as a draughtsman on stone and wood 

 for illustrated publications, designing pictures on a 

 great variety of subjects. Taking up etching next, 

 he was very successful with rustic subjects, and 

 exhibited regularly at the Salon, taking medals in 

 1851, 1861, and 1863. The same class of subjects he 

 treated happily on canvas. For paintings of peasants 

 and farm animals he received medals in 1861,1863, 

 and 1864. He was honored with the cross of the 

 Legion of Honor in 1867. He was practically inter- 

 ested in the breeding of fowls, and in 1858 he pub- 

 lished an illustrated handbook on the subject en- 

 titled " Le Poulailler." 



Johnson, Sir Francis Godschall, a Canadian jurist, 

 born in Bedfordshire, England, in 1817 ; died in Mon- 

 treal, May 27, 1894. He was the son of a captain ot 

 dragoons; was educated by private tutors and in the 

 colieire at St. Omer, France; went to Canada at the 

 a_re of eighteen; studied law, and was admitted to 

 the bar in 1839. He rose to the dignity of Queen's 

 counsel in 1847, was appointed recorder of Rupert's 

 Land in 1854, and from 1855 till 1859 was Governor 

 of Assiniboia. In 1865 he was appointed puisne 

 judge of the Superior Court of Quebec. In 1870 he 

 was appointed a special commissioner to Manitoba, 

 and in 1873 Lieutenant-Governor of that province. In 

 1889 he was appointed chief judge of the Superior 

 Court of Quebec, holding that office till his death, 

 lie was knighted in 1890. 



King, Alice, an English novelist, born in Cutcombe, 

 SMI i lersetshire, in 1839 ; died there in May, 1894. Her 

 father was the parson of the parish. Although blind 

 from the age of seven, she learned 7 languages, and 

 became a prolific writer for magazines and the author 

 of numerous novels, which she wrote with a type- 

 writer. The most important are " Forest Keep " (1862 ) ; 

 " Eveline " (1863) ; " The Lady of Winburne " (1865) ; 

 "Sir Tristram's Will" (1867); "Queen of herself" 

 (1871); "The Woman with a Secret" (1872); "A 

 < 'luster of Lives" (1874); ''Hearts or Coronets" 

 (1876); "Twice loved" (1878); "Fettered, yet Free" 

 (1883) ; and " A Strange Tangle" (1885). 



Laconperie, Terrien de, a French Orientalist, died in 

 Chelsea, England, Oct. 11, 1894. He went in early 

 youth to Hong-Kong, where he became a silk mer- 

 chant. His business was ruined by losses caused by a 

 typhoon, and after that he devoted himself to the 

 study of Oriental languages, acquiring a most accurate 

 knowledge of the Chinese and rare information con- 

 cerning Tibet. He went to London, became Professor 

 of Indo-Chinese in University College, and edited the 

 " Babylonian and Oriental Record." The University 

 of Louvain conferred on him the degree of Doctor of 

 Letters. Dr. de Lacouperie was one of the discov- 

 erers of the relationship between the Chinese hiero- 

 glyphics and the ancient Akkadian language. 



Layard, Sir Ansten Henry, an English archaeologist, 

 born in Paris, France, March 5, 1817; died in Lon- 

 don, July 5, 1894. Of Huguenot descent, French by 

 birth, and Italian by education, he seems to have 

 been destined for a cosmopolitan career. In 1833 he 

 was articled to his uncle, a London solicitor, but was 

 soon attracted to the Ceylon Civil Service. Attempt- 

 ing to reach India by land, he became so much en- 

 amored of a life of travel and adventure that he re- 

 linquished the thought of India, and after securing 

 the aid of Lord Stratford de Redeliffe he devoted 

 himself to conducting explorations in Mesopotamia. 

 His discoveries at Nineveh at once brought him into 

 notice, and no archseologist since has ever secured so 

 general a recognition. But his antiquarian exploits 

 were all confined to the earlier half of his career. 

 He sat in Parliament from 1852 to 1857 as member for 

 Aylesbury, and afterward for South wark, and was 

 subsequently ambassador at Madrid and Constan- 



tinople. He retired from public life in 1880. and, 

 living chiefly in Venice, occupied himself with art 

 criticisms and the collection of pictures. His very 

 latest writing was a description of the picture galleries 

 in Rome for "Murray's Handbook." Although an 



excellent linguist, he was not a profound scholar, but 

 as an enthusiastic antiquary, an active influential 

 diplomatist, and a dilettante in the region of art he 

 was a notable figure of the century. The familiar ex- 

 pression " the right man in the right place " occurred 

 originally in one of his speeches in Parliament. His 

 works include " Nineveh and its Remains " (London, 

 1848 ; abridged edition, 1867) ; " The Monuments of 

 Nineveh" (London, 1850); "Fresh Discoveries at 

 Nineveh and Babylon" (London, 1849-'51 ; abridged 

 edition, 1867); "The Nineveh Court in the Crystal 

 Palace " (London, 1854) ; " The Brancacci Chapel and 

 Masolino, Massaccio, and Fillippino Lippi " (London, 

 1868) ; " Kugler's Handbook of Painting : The Italian 

 Schools " (edited, London, 1887) ; " Early Adventures 

 in Persia, Susiana, and Babylonia" (London, 1887). 



Le Caron, Henri, the assumed name of Thomas Beach, 

 a British informer, born in Colchester, Berkshire. 

 Sept. 26, 1841; died in London, April 1,1894. He 

 was apprenticed to a draper, but ran away when six- 

 teen years old to London, whence lie wandered to 

 Paris and obtained a commercial clerkship. This he 

 abandoned to go to America and enlist in the Union 

 army under the name of Le Caron. He served in the 

 Anderson cavalry in the Peninsular campaign, and 

 afterward in Tennessee, was commissioned 2d lieu- 

 tenant in 1863 and 1st lieutenant in 1864, and com- 

 manded a company of scouts. After the war he 

 wormed some Fenian secrets from John O'Neill, an 

 army comrade arid neighbor in Nashville, which he 

 communicated, through his father, to the British Gov- 

 ernment. Pretend ing to join the Fenian brotherhood, 

 he informed the English authorities of the prepara- 

 tions for the attack on Fort Erie led by O'Neill on 

 June 1, 1866. Returning to England, Le Caron was 

 regularly engaged as a secret police agent and sent 

 back to the United States to take an active part in 

 Irish revolutionary conspiracies in order that he 

 might betray them. Through O'Neill he was ap- 

 pointed military organizer of the next projected in- 

 vasion of Canada, with the rank of major. He com- 

 municated directly to Lord Monck, Governor-din 

 eral at Ottawa, tlie plans of the expedition of 1870, 

 which he had helped to organize, and which he led 

 into a deadly ambush in the forest. Le Caron was 

 soon afterward graduated as a physician, and began 

 practice in Braidwood, 111., where he opened a drug 



