

OBITUARIES, FoRI'lGN. v Kn:iii. UOSMKAD.) 



Riehl ilhe|m llein.ieh rmall hi<- 



torian. liorn in Micbrich n 1M38 ; died in Munich. 

 16. 1897. Aft.-r stud)ing theology and phi- 

 losophy at dnTen-ii! univorsitfi^ be devoted him- 

 self t d studies at Gies^-n. He became 

 a journalist at Frankfort in 1MV and w:is n 

 ward connected with paper* in Karlsruhe, Wies- 

 baden, and Augsburg until isr>:t, win -n K 



,1 him I 1 ' TV at the 



- of Munich. In 1HS5 he Iwanu- li 

 of the National Mu--um and . 

 rian monuments ,,f ar; and antiquities, while still 

 rftai; professorship. 1'n.f. Riehl was a 



composer, and published several musical \v 

 Hi- books on the history <>f civilization and man- 

 ners an* rorv numerous, and he wrote several his- 

 torical novels. Am..ng his U'st known works are 



lam Son. 



"Ffcmilr Book of 1 ^lories from Ancient 



Times,""and "Studies of the History of Civilization 

 daring Three Centuries." 



Rocra, Km i< o Mon.//n ddhi. an Italian 

 orml. born in 1807: died in Augn- 

 cadet of a Piedmontese family whose nobility dates 

 from the thirteenth century, he was placed at court 

 when nine years old as a page to the I'rii 

 Carignano. and later passed through the military 

 academy, which he left in IW to join the Mail 

 with the grade of lieutenant. II. did good work 

 in geodetical and topographical surveying till Carlo 

 Alberto, whom he had served as page, came to the 

 throne in 1831, and called him to court to be squire 

 to the Duke of Savoy. After the defeat at Nova- 

 ra and the abdication of the Kint: in favor of 

 Vittorio Kmmanuele. the latter intrusted to Gen. 

 delta Rocca the portfolio of .Mini-ter of War. which 

 be was not long able to retain amid the continual 

 political storms of the period. He continued, how- 

 to be one of the intimate confidential advisers 

 of his sovereign, and it was lie and Cavoiir. his old 

 comrade, who urged Vittorio Kmmanuele to take 

 part in the Crimean expedition with the view ,f 

 securing tin- future co-oj.erat i<n of Napoleon III in 

 the unification of Italy. 



BflfJBMtX Lord (formerly Sir Hr.uru:s ROBIN- 

 SON), a British administrator, born in Kosmead, 

 County Westmeath, Ireland, in 1824; died in Lon- 

 don. Get 28, 1897. He was a son of Admiral Her- 

 cules Robinson, was educated at Sandhurst, held a 

 commis-ion in the army for a short time, then 

 served in various positions in the Irish civil 

 ice, and in 1854 was appointed President of Mont- 

 serrat and Lieutenant Governor of St. Christopher. 

 On completion of his term of five years he was 

 made Governor of H ad in l *':; 



on a commission to inquire into the financial con- 

 dition ,,f Settlements. In lsr,r, he was 

 transferred from Hong-Kong to Ceylon, where he 

 erred until he was appointed. -r of 

 the self-governing colony of :h Wales. 

 .irtilv indorsed the incipient project of Aus- 

 tralian federation, and was already an Imperialist. 

 to a successful issue the annexati 

 lands in 1H74. In Iv 



Zealand, but was governor of thai uly a 



year and a half, when he was called away to under- 

 take the difficult duties of Governor of the Cape 



missioner of south 



I hardlv reached Cape Town when. 



ec. Ifl, 1880. the Transvaal declared its ind.- 



. nee. The campaign that followed t-ndeil wit h 



the disastrous tut tie of Majuha Hill. aft. r which hc 



made peace in accordance with the i- mand- of the 



;il party at h.-m- . though much a? 



In 



the nine years that folj,,w,.j > ;r Henulcs Kohin- 

 son,towbom in the delicate -it nation f>f S-uth Afii- 



'Tairs the home Government all inli- 



bO liy hi* tact and 



diploma, y and his sagacitv in vit-'lding to ! 

 that In- could not resist, and di>j-la\ ni;' unexpected 



English piv-iige and 



1. played a greater part 



than any other colonial 'iiury. 



d'l.v the Liberal Mltj, he. in OODJUncUon 

 with Cecil Klmles. made il - for t In- 

 most aml'itioiis of forward m-\. m-. ami tin \ 



even gained the support of the Dutch of Cape Cof- 

 ony ! Miperial de-igns. playing upon their 



fears of (Jerman c\|.aii-i..n. The A fnkander r.-.n-i. 

 formed with sentiments of direct aiitagoni.sm to 

 Mngli-h rule under the s\-!em of eoiiciliat ion 



adopted liy Sir Hercules RobinSOO, I.eeaine the 



mainstay <'f the nolicy of Hrili-h imperial . 



made a British 



protcclorate.in < 'harles NN'arreii. who led 



\pedition that occupied the country, proposed 



to divest Sir Hercules Uol.ilisoli of the oflice of 



high commi-.ioiier and liave the Imperi. 



Illellt take the direct and sole control of th 



tones to be acquired in the north, holding that the 

 nor of Cape Colony was too much under the 

 influence of the Cape hutch and their brother- of 

 the I>oer republics. Tlli- Od i the 



jealou-ies between the Dutch and 'the Knglish 

 which the conciliatory policy of Sir Hercule- Robin- 

 son had succeeded in allaying, tint hi- final \: 

 restored to a considerable extent the mutual confi- 

 dence between the parties. In the year in which 

 his term expired the British South Africa 

 obtained a charter to administer the territories that 

 t he Port ugiicse had been forced by menaces to relin- 

 quish, up to and beyond the /amboi a far a- i 



-ir Hercules IJobinson retained the 

 confidence of the Dutch to the la-l. and. when a 

 convulsion in the Transvaal seemed again to be 

 impending, the Liberal Government, in 1 s !'"'. 

 him out again a- Sir Henry Loch's successor, al- 

 though his appointment was the subject of sharp 

 criticism, because during his retirement he had 

 entered into relations with variou- South African 

 companies. Cecil Rhodes was still Premier, and 

 no break had occurred between him and the hutch 

 leaders, and hence the former con. lit ions were ex- 

 pected to be restored by him and Sir IL: 

 Kobin-on. whom I're-ide'nt Kriig.-r had -aid that 

 he preferred to all other British governors. With 

 his usual diplomatic >kill he i to com- 



pose the quarrels between the Tit landers and the 

 I'ran .-rnment. Then came the .la- 



raid and the explosion of the plot in which hi- 

 oiliccrs were implicated, of which Cecil Rhodes was 

 the main instigator. He himself re-ted under sus- 

 picion, /us well as the colonial authorities at home. 

 Plank and universal distrust pervaded South Al 

 and race feeling was aroused almo-t t. the pitch 

 that would precipitate civil war. In these trying 

 circumstances the aged and sickly governor 

 with energy ami di-Tetion. di-playini: hi-< political 

 ability as he never had don,- before. He promptly 



weil Dr. .lame-on'- action, and en:- 

 arrest hi- march. Then he proceeded to IV. 

 and negotiated of hr. .lame-on and his 



fellow off! failure to obtain any immcdi- 



cdress for the grievances of I'ritish subjects, 

 and thus rehabilitate I'.rili-h : 

 the r, i-piracv, was keenly crit 



by the imjH-rialiMs in Kngland and South Africa, 

 biit the best |nilitician< concluded that he h;> : 

 tricated \ii< Government from a difficult and hu- 

 milia i-.n as well as could be done. Hi- 



: . however, was considered at an end : and 

 after being elevated to the peerage, having already 

 received the colonial order of knighthood and a 



