OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (CowiE DOCHE.) 



515 





of Charles and Rose Coghlan, and was educated 

 at the Conservatory of Alusic, in Paris, where she 

 attracted the attention of Carl Rosa, who en- 

 gaged her as the leading contralto of his opera 

 company, which place she occupied for years, 

 singing with great success in England and on the 

 Continent. She came to the United States as a 

 member of Mapleson's Opera Company. Jn 1889 

 she married Sydney Battam, secretary of the 

 Leadenhall Bank, London. Her last appearance 

 was at Rochester, N. Y., Feb. 24, 1900, with the 

 Joe Ott Comic Opera Company. 



Cowie, Benjamin Morgan, an English clergy- 

 man, born June 8, 1810; died in London, May 1, 

 1900. He was educated at Cambridge, and took 

 orders in 1841. From 1844 to 1851 he was prin- 

 cipal of the College of Civil Engineers, at Putney, 

 ;ind he was Hulsean lecturer at Cambridge in 1853 

 and 1854. In the year last named he was Pro- 

 fessor of Geometry at Gresham College. He re- 

 ceived the living of St. Lawrence, Jewry, Lon- 

 don, and was made a minor canon of St. Paul's 



1858, and from 1872 to 1883 he held the deanery 

 jf Manchester. He became dean of Exeter in 

 1883, and held that office until his death. He was 



high churchman, though not an extreme ritual- 

 ist, and was one of the earliest to introduce choral 

 celebrations and vested processions. He pub- 

 lished, besides lesser works, Scripture Difficulties 

 (1853- ? 54); On Sacrifice (1856); The Voice of 

 (1870); Ministerial Work (1872). 



Del Puente, Giuseppe, an Italian singer, born 

 Naples, in 1845; died in New York city, May 



, 1900. He was educated at the Conservatory 

 Music, in Naples, under the famous masters 

 Juercia and Scafato. He was an enthusiastic 

 Jaribaldian, and served as a soldier in the revo- 

 ition in Italy. After resuming his studies he 

 uade his debut as a baritone at Jassy, Wallachia, 



company with Italo Campanini. the celebrated 

 enor, in 1871. His success was immediate and 



ibstantial, and he was successively engaged in 

 the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, La Scala in 

 Milan, the Apollo in Rome, and the Grand Italian 

 Opera in London. Maurice Strakosch heard him 

 in Rome in 1873 in the role of Rigoletto, and en- 

 gaged him for a three years' visit to America. 

 His first appearance in New York was a triumph, 

 and he remained in possession of the baritone 

 roles at the Academy of Music and the Metro- 

 politan Opera House for successive seasons until 

 his retirement in 1890, when he took up his resi- 

 dence in Philadelphia, and devoted himself to 

 teaching. His greatest roles were Rigoletto in the 

 opera of that name and the toreador in Carmen. 



Desbordes, Borg-nis, a French soldier, born in 

 Paris in 1839; died in Saigon, Indo-China, July 

 14, 1900. He had earned the reputation of a dar- 

 ing and resourceful officer, and had served in 

 various campaigns, when in 1880 he was ordered 

 to occupy upper Senegal as far as Kita, and to 

 make a survey for a railroad to the Niger. He 

 carried on operations against Samory, defeated 

 his forces on Feb. 26, 1882, reached the Niger and 

 built a fort at Bammation in 1883, and drove 

 Siimory back to the south. In 1884 Col. Des- 

 Ixmbs was appointed to the command of the 

 artillery in the Tonquin expedition. He was pro- 

 moted to be a general in 1886. commanded a bri- 

 gade in Tonquin and Annam in 1887, and con- 

 'inued to serve in Tndo-China, rising to be com- 

 lander in chief of the forces. 



Didon, Henri, a French preacher, born in Tou- 

 ret, Isre, March 17, 1840: died in Toulouse about 

 "ne middle of March, 1900. He was trained for 

 the Catholic priesthood in a French seminary, 



tudied in Berlin and Leipsic, joined the Domini- 



can order, gained fame as an orator, and occupied 

 in succession the principal pulpits of Paris. His 

 resonant voice, free gesticulation, impassioned 

 style, and bold and vigorous language attracted 

 immense audiences. His addresses in the Church 

 of St. Roch made a profound impression, and his 

 freedom of thought and expression disquieted his 

 superiors, who in 1880 sent him to a monastery 

 in Corsica to do penance for eighteen months. 

 He held liberal views in religion and politics, and 

 preached that the Catholic Church is not opposed 

 to the fullest liberty, and that religion and science 

 are not in conflict. In his later life he directed 

 the college of Albert-le-Grand, at Arcueil. Pere 

 Didon was the author of a book on the Germans 

 and of a Life of Jesus, written in response to the 

 work of Ernest Renan on the same subject. 



Dixon, Richard Watson, an English clergy- 

 man, born in London, in 1833; died Jan. 2, 1900. 

 He was the son of a noted Wesleyan minister, and 

 was educated at Oxford, where with Burne-Jones 

 and William Morris he edited the Oxford and 

 Cambridge Magazine as an exponent of pre- 

 Raphaelite opinions. After being admitted to 

 orders in 1858 he became curate of the parish of 

 Saint Mary-the-Less in Lambeth, and in 1863 was 

 appointed second master of the high school at 

 Carlisle. He was made honorary canon of Car- 

 lisle in 1874, vicar of Hayton the next year, 

 and vicar of Warkworth in 1883. Dixon was 

 never a popular writer, for although he possessed 

 both sincerity and power, he was prolix. He was 

 not wanting in poetic insight, and as a historian 

 he was acute and painstaking, but his choice of 

 words was sometimes infelicitous, and his style 

 suffered from audacity of phrase. His writings 

 include The Close of the Tenth Century of the 

 Christian Era (Oxford, 1858) ; Christ's Company 

 and Other Poems (London, 1861); Historical 

 Odes and Other Poems (1864); Essay on the 

 Maintenance of the Church of England (1875); 

 The Life of James Dixon (1874); History of the 

 Church of England from the Abolition of the 

 Roman Jurisdiction (1877-'90); Mano: A Poet- 

 ical History (1883); Odes and Eclogues (Oxford, 

 1884); Lyrical Poems (1885); The Story of Eu- 

 docia and her Brothers, a narrative poem (1887) ; 

 Songs and Odes (1896). 



Doche, Madame (Lady Marie Charlotte Eu- 

 genie de Plunkett), a French actress, born in 

 Brussels, Nov. 4, 1823; died in Paris, July 21, 

 1900. She was the daughter of an Irish family 

 domiciled in Belgium since the migration of the 

 Irish families with the Stuarts. She made her 

 first appearance at Versailles in October, 1837, 

 as Juliette in Moiroud et Compagnie. On Jan. 8, 

 1838, she made her debut at the Theatre Vaude- 

 ville, Paris, in the play of Renaudin de Caen. 

 With this theater particularly Mine. Doche's 

 fame is most intimately associated, for it was her 

 wonderful popularity that made this house one of 

 the principal theaters of France. It was here that 

 she originated the part of Stella in Serment de 

 Coll&ge. During these early years of her public- 

 life she used a nom de theatre, EugCnie Fleury. 

 In March, 1839, she married Pierre Alexandre 

 Joseph Doche, conductor of the orchestra at the 

 Vaudeville. In March, 1845, she left the Vaude- 

 ville for the Gymnase, where she first appeared. 

 April 17, as Madeleine in L'lmage. In December 

 following she returned to the Vaudeville, which 

 she again left in 1848. In February, 1852, she re- 

 turned once more to the Vaudeville to make an 

 epoch in the history of the French stage, for it 

 was then that she created the role of Marguerite 

 Gautier in La Dame aux Came'lias of Alexandre 

 Dumas, fils, known to the American stage as 



