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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (CLARK DAUPHIN.) 



Grevy a commander of the Legion of Honor. In 

 1896 he was created a Knight of St. Michael and 

 St. George. 



Clark, George Thomas, an English genealogist 

 and archaeologist, born in 1809 ; died at Tal-y-Garn 

 near Llantrissant, Wales, Jan. 31, 1898. He was 

 educated at the Charterhouse School, and in early 

 life was a civil engineer. His attention was directed 

 to archaeology early in his career, and for many 

 years he devoted his leisure to examination of med- 

 ieval castles, the result of his investigations appear- 

 ing in 1883 in a work in two volumes on " Mediaeval 

 Military Architecture in England." He knew his 

 subject'more thoroughly than any man of his time, 

 and his great work is a standard authority. He 

 possessed a clear, terse style, and his descriptions 

 and explanations of castle arrangements leave very 

 little to be desired. He published " The Land of 

 Morgan : Its Conquest and its Conquerors " a vol- 

 ume relating to Glamorganshire (London, 1880); 

 " Limbus Patrum Morganik and Glamorganik," a 

 genealogical work (London, 1886) ; and " Cartae et 

 alia Munimenta quae ad Dominum de Glamorgan 

 Pertinent" (London, 1885-'93). 



Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden, English au- 

 thoress and Shakespearean editor, born in London, 

 England, June 22, 1809; died in Genoa, Italy, Jan. 

 13, 1898. She was a daughter of Vincent Novello, 

 an eminent musician and composer, and married, 

 July 5, 1828, an intimate friend of her family, 

 twenty-two years older than herself, Charles Cowden 

 Clarke, an author and lecturer. The home of Mr. 

 Novello was a resting place for many of the best 

 literary, artistic, and dramatic persons of the day, 

 and the little Victoria, as she was called in the home 

 circle, became disposed toward literature at a very 

 early age. In her childhood she was taught by Mary 

 Lamb ; and Charles Lamb, John Keats, Leigh Hunt, 

 and Shelley were associates of her early years. 

 After leaving the care of Mrs. Lamb she was sent to 

 a boarding school in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, for 

 education in the language and letters of that coun- 

 try. Returning to London, she became a governess 

 and spent the years that intervened until her mar- 

 riage as such in one family. She began her literary 

 work during this time with the contribution of sev- 

 eral interesting articles to Hone's "Table Book." 

 After her marriage her husband and she resided 

 with her parents. Mr. Cowden Clarke was at this 

 time dramatic writer for the "Examiner" and "At- 

 las " newspapers, and the young wife became deeply 

 interested in the drama and in study of Shakespeare. 

 She began her celebrated concordance to the plays 

 of Shakespeare in 1829, and completed it in 1845. 

 This book has gone through many editions both in 

 England and America, and constitutes the best 

 monument of the gentle compiler's worth. Thence 

 ensued a busy life of book and essay writing, varied 

 with social meetings in which mutually helpful 

 groups of writers, singers, and actors were gathered 

 around her. In an amateur performance of "The 

 Rivals," Nov. 10, 1847, Mrs. Cowden Clarke played 

 Mrs. Malaprop so charmingly that Charles Dickens 

 easily induced her to join his famous company of 

 literary players. With these eminent associates, 

 among whom were Dickens, Mark Lemon, and John 

 Forster, she played in the series of performances 

 given in the principal cities of England in 1848. In 

 1856 she and husband removed to Nice. About the 

 same time she was introduced to American litera- 

 ture by the Messrs. Appleton, who engaged her to 

 edit an edition of Shakespeare published in 1858, 

 thus bestowing upon her the distinction of being 

 the first woman editor of the great dramatist. 

 From that time she became also a contributor to 

 American magazines. In 1860 her brother Alfred, 

 founder of the music publishing house of Novello, 



Ewer & Co., London, having retired from business, 

 purchased an estate near Genoa, which he named 

 " Villa Novello," and persuaded the Cowden Clarkes 

 to make their home with him. After the death of 

 her husband, in his ninetieth year, March 13, 1877, 

 Mrs. Clarke passed much of her time with her sis- 

 ter Clara, Countess Gigliucci, at Fermo, Italy. 

 From 1877 to 1885 she traveled much on the Conti- 

 nent, principally in Germany and Austria, always 

 returning to the Villa Novello. She was actively 

 engaged as a writer of magazine articles during 

 the closing years of her life. Her principal works 

 are : " The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare " 

 (London, 1845); "World-Noted Women" (Ni-w 

 York, 1858) ; " The Girlhood of Shakespeare's 

 Heroines " : " The Story of the Drop of Water, a 

 London Legend," under the pseudonym of Harry 

 Wandsworth Shortfellow (London, 1856); "Life 

 and Labors of Vincent Novello" (London, 1864); 

 " Trust and Remittance, Love Stories in Metrical 

 Prose" (London, 1873) ; "A Rambling Story "(Lon- 

 don, 1874) ; " Honey from the Weed " (London, 

 1881) ; " Slippery Ford : or, How Tom was Taught '' 

 (London, 1885); "A Centennial Biographic Sketch 

 of Charles Cowden Clarke, by her whom he made 

 his Second Self " (London, 1887); and " My Busy 

 Life," an autobiography (New York, 1896). 



Cochraiie, William, clergyman and educator, 

 born in Paisley, Scotland, in 1831 ; died in Brant- 

 ford, Ontario, Canada, Oct. 17, 1898. He entered 

 the University of Glasgow, but removed to th< 

 United States before he had completed the course 

 of study. He was graduated at Hanover College, 

 Indiana, in 1857. He was ordained to the ministry 

 in 1859. and in 1862 became pastor of Zion Presby- 

 terian Church, Brantford. In the conduct of this 

 pastorate, which lasted through his life, he became 

 prominent in all the affairs of his denomination, 

 and he was conceded to be the most distinguished 

 minister of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. 

 He was for many years president of the Young 

 Ladies' College in Brantford. In 1875 Hanover 

 College conferred the degree of D. D. upon him. 

 He published "The Heavenly Vision'* (1873); 

 " Christ and Christian Life "(1875); "The Church 

 and the Commonwealth" and " Memoirs and Re- 

 mains of the Rev. Peter Inglis " (1887) ; and " Fu- 

 ture Punishment " (1888). 



Crespo, Joaquin, ex-President of Venezuela, 

 died in April, 1898. He rose to high political posi- 

 tions when Guzman Blanco was President, and was 

 chosen by the latter to succeed him when the Con- 

 stitution forbade him to occupy the presidential 

 chair. Not content with the role of a substitute,, 

 Crespo drove Guzman Blanco from power. When 

 he in turn fell from power in 1892, he took up arms 

 against President Andueza Palacio, overturned him, 

 and had himself elected in his place. After a tran- 

 quil administration he yielded up the chair to Gen. 

 Andrade, whom he had chosen for his successor, 

 and replaced the latter as Governor of Mirandu. 

 Gen. Hernandez, the opposing candidate, pretend- 

 ing to believe that Crespo had conducted the pres,- 

 dential election arbitrarily, began to recruit parti- 

 sans in the interior in February, 1898, and in an 

 encounter with these, in April, Gen. Crespo founi 

 his death. 



Dauphin, Albert a French statesman, born in 

 Amiens, Aug. 26, 1827; died there in November, 

 1898. He was mayor of Amiens in 1870, in 1873 

 president of the Council of the Somme, and in 

 1876 was elected to the Senate, where he took h s 

 seat in the Left Center and supported the Dufauie 

 ministry. He was re-elected in 1882, presided in 

 1884 over one of the committees for the revision of 

 the Constitution, and in 1886 received the portfolio 

 of Finance in the Goblet ministry. 



