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OBITUARIES, Foi; ilwu,K How.) 



Havelock- Allan - II. nr> >lar>hman. an 

 English general, born in Chinsurah. India. Aug. 6, 

 M.-ji.l. in tb< pass, 



Dec. 80. 1897. His father was <i,-n. II. -nry 1 

 lock, and his mother was a daughter <-f I T' Marsh- 

 limn, a Mapti>t missionary in India. II.- ei 



vnny as an ensign in 1848. received a linn.-n- 



ant's commission when eighteen yean of age, and 



was a captain at twenty-sevi-n. on hi- father's 



staff he saw service in the Persian campaign, die- 



.U himself in the capture- of Mohumrah. 



as his father'* aid through the mutin\ 

 paigns,and was prawn t a- as of Fnttehpnr, 



Aoung. 1'atidmi. Xmlii- -erui. 



_, Mungarwar. and Alumbagh. and in the re- 

 defense of Ih. 



and in t*>th these actions was wound. -d. 

 he was promoted captain he took pan under 

 Franks in the actions of Nnsrut pur. < 'lianda, Uraeer- 

 Sultanpur. In 1858 he was breveted 



r and was created a ban-net, his father. t.-r 

 whom the honor was intended, having, lie. I. <>n tin- 

 staff of <"n. l.uanl he was present at the relief t 



_-hur and in the operations against the .lu-d. - 

 spur rebel.-. Later in the Tear he commanded u 

 cavalry detachment in (hide und.-r Lord Clyde. 

 and was present at Burgudeea, Musjeedia, and Hap 

 tee. For his brilliai in India ho was fre- 



quently mentioned in dispatches, and was made a 

 brevet 'lieutenant colonel, though barely thirty 

 of age. After two years of staff duty at AJdershot, 

 he took pert, in 1863, in the war against t h- .M 

 of New Zealand, In-ing j.r- Kangariri, I'ate- 



rangiand Orakau.and in command at the battle of 

 Wairre, From 1*67 till 1869 he was assist ant M uar- 

 tcrma--t -r general in Canada, becoming in 1868 a 

 colonel, and then served in the same capacity <m 

 the staff in Ireland till 1872. He was made a 



r general in 1878 and lieutenant general in 

 1881. His passion for seeing fighting was such that 

 be acted as a newspaper correspondent in order to 

 witness the actions of the Franco-German and 

 Rosso-Servian wars, and in 1882 he went to Egypt 

 and was in the foremost lighting line at K assassin, 

 causing an insurance company to cancel the policy 

 on his life. When not in active service Sir Henry 

 Havelock took an earnest interest in politics. II. 

 entered the House of Commons as an advanced 

 Liberal in 1874. and represented Sundcrland till 

 1881, when he was appointed to the command of a 

 brigade at Aldershot. In 1884 he was returned as 

 a Liberal for Durham, and in 1886 was elected 

 again as a Liberal- 1" ni.nist. Losing his seat in 

 1892, he was returned again in 1895. The surname 

 Allan was coupled with his own in 1880, in compli- 

 ance with the testamentary request of a relative. 



! tiry Havelock-Allan was a member of the 

 political staff that accompanied Sir William Ix>ck- 

 hArt in the campaign again -t the . Uridis. and while 



4 out to visit a newly recaptured post in tin- 

 pass he went ahead of the escort, and was killed by 

 A f rid i ^harpsbooters lying in wait for stragglers. 



II aton. John A Mum. an English decorative 

 artist, bom in York-hip- in 1830; died in Hamp- 

 stead, London, Nov. 20, 1897. His early training 

 among the looms of his native shire gave him tin- 

 technical knowledge of fabrics that was aft. : 

 so useful to him. and his extraordinary sensitive- 

 ness to color enabled him to arrange the greatest 

 variety of combination* of tint and ornament. II. 

 designed innumerable patterns in furniture, wall 

 papers, and stained glass, and in his early days was 

 to some extent a follower of prpranhaelite" ideas. 

 In 1889 he published in two folio volumes " Furni- 

 ture and Decoration in Kneland during the Eight- 

 eenth ." which ranks as the final authority 

 on the subject. 



Heemskcik. M. A. J.. a Hutch statesman. born 



longed to the old Oof 1 formerly 



wasa leading figure in the politics of the Nether- 

 lands He possessed Na-t knowlcd- il |Mi- 

 lilii-al sagacity, was more than ..lire intrusted \\ilh 

 the 1 t a cabinet, and -\eral times wasa 

 cabinet minister. 



Hewlett, Henri <..i\ r. Lorn in 



London. April I, 1888; died 1897. Ih- 



\\id- a< .jiiainlanee with lilaek-h-l ti-r hi-liry and 



law, almost in efTert a family inheritance, led I 



ntinent in isirtas keeper of I he Land K.-vmn,- 



ds and 1; nt for the Crown, whieh 



plare he resigned in ls.:. 1 1,- \\a-> lon^ the frinid 

 of Henry Chorley. the well-kno\\n eriiie. and a^ his 

 litera- .ileil the " A ill ol no U 'ra| .h s 



.and hell. T- of Henry l-'..t lirr-ill Uhorley" m 

 Hi. pulili-hed \\..rk- in- hide * Th( II- roes of 

 F.un ; raphical Outline of Knro|teai. 



L ! I"" 1 1""" (I860); "Shakespea; 

 ma" (isr.i 

 W.-ii.lov.-r Lilirr qui ilieitur i 



!-iarum " ilsHi. : - I'.-i-Norman Uriiain " 



: and "The WayfaP-r'> Wallet." V( 

 llolilen. Sir Isaac, a I'.riti-h inventor. In.rn in 

 Hnrlet. near I' I807j died in K.'i.u'hl.-v. 



mi.. An_'. 18,1897. ll- was the son of a coal 

 miner, attended a grammar sehool at Kill-an-han 

 for two years, worked a short time in a cotton mill, 

 returned to M-hool at the a.u r e of thirteen, and after 



learning Latin and I kkeepini; \>< n-her 



at Pai-li-y. and in Is-JS a teacher of mat heinat ie- 

 in an academy at Leeds. Subsequently he taught 

 Latin and Greek, science, and history in Ke;i 

 and while tin-re mad.- experiments which roulte.l 

 in the di.-cciv.-rv .,f the lucifer match, hut did not 

 secure a patent. He had hoped to !>., ,,me a 

 preacher, having eml>rac>-d the \Ve-leyan doctrine- 

 at an early age, l>ut aliandoned his ambition and in 

 1830 entered the service of a wool-eomher at Col- 

 lingworth. Finding here full scope for his invent- 

 ive powers, in a few year.- he completely revolu- 

 tionized the process of wool-eomliim:. In 1 s - 

 removed to Bradford, and in association wit); 

 Lister, afterward Lord Masham, perfected many 

 improvements in wool-combing machinery. In 

 1848 they established shops at Sl.-I>enis. in Fr- 

 aud after these were closed, in 1860, they opened 

 still larger works at Hradford. whieh ^ri-w to be 

 the most extensive in the world, employing, with 

 the branch shop- in <'roj\ and L'heims. more than 

 4,000 persons. The firm acquired an honorable rep- 

 utation for efforts to improve the social and intel- 

 lectual status of the work people. Mr. Holden en- 



of ( 'oinnion- a- a Liberal in 

 ,-d his seat in favor of his son-in-law. Alfred 

 Illinpvnrih. in !*<>*, and was not succe-sful in his 



Ll to obtain another till 1H82. He wa 

 elected in INS.-, and lss. finally retiring in 

 He wa- created a baronet in 18 



Hon. ill i. in, NiiMum. l-inplish prelate. 



born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, I '. i::. ivj:;-. died 

 at Leenane. Conne'mara. Ireland. An-. 1 ( >. \^'>1. He 

 was a graduate of Oxford, and after taking h"ly or- 

 ders became curate of St. Oeorp-'s, Kidderminster, 

 in 1840. II is next curacy was at Ilo|\( r 

 bury, which he p-eejved in 1K4N and relimjuisherl 

 in i^")l to become rector of Whittin-ton. Shrop- 

 shire. He remained at Whitt intfton twenty 

 years, during which time he became widely K 

 as a writer, and in l*7!f wa appointed to the living 

 rit Andrew t'nler-hMft in London. Thi* of- 

 fice he held a few months only, till hi- consecration 



Trairan Uishop of Bedford in July of that year. 

 In his new office his work lay wholly in KH-I Lon- 

 don, where he not only won the regard of his clergy, 



