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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (POTTER RIVIER.) 



in 1893, and was one of the founders and the par- 

 liamentary leader of the Agrarian League, a faction 

 started within the Conservative party to defend the 

 interests of the landowning class, which promoted 

 extreme protection and adopted Anti-Semitic prin- 

 ciples and the theory of bimetallism. He was the 

 author of the bourse law placing the produce ex- 

 changes under the control of Agrarians, which broke 

 up the exchanges in most German cities. 



Potter, Thomas Bayley. an English politician, 

 born in Tadcaster in 1817 ; died in Midhurst, Nov. 

 6, 1898. He was the son of Sir Thomas Potter, mem- 

 ber of a great commercial firm in Manchester that 

 was influential in political and in philanthropic and 

 social affairs. He was educated at Rugby and at 

 London University, became head of the firm after 

 his brother had broken with the Anti-Corn-Law 

 League, healed the breach and became the fast 

 friend of Cobden, took the leading part with his 

 partner, Francis Taylor, in organizing in 1863 the 

 Union and Emancipation Society which defended 

 the cause of the North in the American war of 

 secession, succeeded Cobden in 1865 as member of 

 Parliament for Rochdale, and in 1866 founded the 

 Cobden Club, which by its publications, its transac- 

 tions and prize essays, and its anniversary dinners has 

 kept the arguments for free trade before the public. 



Price, Bartholomew, an English mathematician, 

 born in Coin Saint Dennis, Gloucestershire. May 14, 

 1818 ; died Dec. 30, 1898. He was educated at Pem- 

 broke College, Oxford, and was graduated in 1840. 

 In 1844 he became a fellow of Pembroke, and in 

 1853 was appointed Professor of Natural Philoso- 

 phy at Oxford. He held honorable places con- 

 nected with the university, was for many years 

 secretary of the Clarendon Press, resigning that 

 office in 1885, and from 1892 until his death was 

 master of Pembroke College. He published "Trea- 

 tise on the Differential Calculus " (1848) ; " Treatise 

 on the Infinitesimal Calculus " : Vol. I, " Differential 

 Calculus " (1852) : Vol. II, "' Integral Calculus and 

 Calculus of Variations " (1854) ; Vol. Ill, " Statics 

 and Dynamics of a Particle " (1856) ; Vol. IV, " Dy- 

 namics of Material Systems " (1862 ; 2d ed., 1889). 



Pnyis de Chavannes, Pierre, a French painter, 

 born in Lyons, Dec. 4, 1824 ; died in Paris, Oct. 25, 

 1898. He studied with Henri Scheffer and Thomas 

 Couture, painted in 1861 the mural decorations for 

 the Amiens library, and produced many other se- 

 ries in subsequent years for Marseilles, Lyons, Poi- 

 tiers, and other French cities, for the new Sorbonne 

 and the Pantheon in Paris, and for the Boston pub- 

 lic library. Among the most important are the 

 "Life of'Sainte Genevieve" in the Pantheon, the 

 " Sacred Grove," and the " Vision of Antiquity " 

 and " Christian Inspiration " at Lyons. Mystic 

 figures, marked by repose, grace, and dignity, scat- 

 tered at wide intervals on a background of cold, 

 neutral color, are the chief characteristic of his 

 work, which at first was regarded as from its 

 novelty as eccentric and artificial, and in the end 

 came to be looked upon as the acme of chaste and 

 classic beauty in decorative art. 



Ouain, Sir Richard, a British physician, born in 

 Mallow, near Cork, Oct. 30, 1816 ; died in London, 

 March 13, 1,898. He was graduated as doctor of 

 medicine in the University of London in 1842, 

 attained a large practice rapidly, was elected a 

 fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1851, 

 became physician to the Brompton Hospital for 

 Chest Diseases in 1855, a member of the senate of 

 the London University in 1860, and chairman of 

 the Brown Institution.' In 1865 he was appointed 

 a member of the royal commission for the inves- 

 tigation of the cattle plague, and not only induced 

 the commission to recommend strict quarantine 

 against infected districts and the slaughter of all 



animals attacked or exposed to infection, but by 

 his articles in the " Times " and the ' Saturday 

 Review " prepared the public for the acceptance of 

 these stringent measures. He was Appointed a 

 member of the General Medical Council in 1863, 

 and became chairman of the Pharmacopoeia Com- 

 mittee, and in 1891 president of the Council. He 

 edited a " Dictionary of Medicine." His researches 

 into the causes of fatty degeneration gave him a 

 great reputation in the medical profession while he 

 was still young. He was distinguished for his power 

 of rapid and acute diagnosis. He lived on cordial 

 terms with many famous authors and artists, mid 

 on account of his genial humor was a social favorite. 



It a \> I in so ii. Sir Robert, an English engineer, 

 born in Bristol, Feb. 28, 1810; died in London, 

 May 31, 1898. He was the son of a builder, began 

 life as a stone mason, became an engineer under 

 Robert Stephenson in the construction of railroads. 

 and in 1840 assistant surveyor of Liverpool, in which 

 post his attention was turned to sanitary engineer- 

 ing. He was appointed an inspector under the pub- 

 lic health act of 1848, and exposed without fear or 

 favor the overcrowding, want of proper sewerage 

 or water supply, and general filthy condition of 

 many towns. In 1855, after the mismanagement 

 of the Crimean campaign had driven a Cabinet 

 from office, he was sent as one of the sanitary 

 commissioners who immediately checked the ap- 

 palling mortality in the hospitals and camps from 

 insanitary causes. In 1863 he recommended and 

 planned sewerage, drainage, reservoirs, streets, parks, 

 etc., costing 1,850,000, that gave employment to 

 the starving cotton operatives of Lancashire, lie 

 was chairman of the royal commission appointed 

 in 1866 to inquire into the pollution of rivers, one 

 of the commissioners that investigated the sanitary 

 condition of Dublin in 1879, and on the constitu- 

 tion of the Local Government Board he became 

 chief engineering inspector. He was knighted in 

 1883. In 1894 he was elected president of the In- 

 stitution of Civil Engineers. 



Richebourg 1 , Jules Emile, French dramatist, 

 born in Meuvy, Haute Marne, France, April 2->, 

 1833 ; died in Bougival, Jan. 26, 1898. He was, 

 like Siderot, the son of a cutler, and was brought 

 up to follow his father's business. At the age of 

 seventeen he sought employment in commercial 

 pursuits in Paris, but after a short experience in 

 business and as a tutor he secured a place on the 

 staff of " Figaro " as a writer. His first effort at 

 novel writing was the " Contes Enfantins" (1857). 

 In 1862, after failing several times to obtain a 

 favorable hearing, he produced a successful drama, 

 " Les Nuits de la Place Royale," of which Leon 

 Pournin was joint author. "A comedy mini, 

 called " Un Menage a la Mode," which he gave to 

 the public in 1863, firmly established him as a 

 dramatist. But his greatest distinction was that 

 he was a wonderfully prolific writer of popular 

 fiction. His first greatly successful romance " Lu- 

 cienne " appeared in 1858, and for forty years In- 

 turned out reams of melodramatic and blood- 

 curdling tales and became very wealthy. He was 

 a member of the Directory of the Societe des Gena 

 de Lettres and a Knight of the Legion of Honor. 

 At the time of his death he was the literary and 

 dramatic critic of "Le Petit Journal." Hi- ln-st- 

 known books are " Contes Enfantins " (Paris, 1858); 

 " Ilomme aux Lunettes Noires" (1864); "Co>ur- 

 des Femmes " (1864) ; " Les Barbes Crises " (1^ 

 "Recits devant 1'ltre" (1867); " Les Franc-tireurs 

 de Paris " (1872) ; " La Coined ie au Village " (I*?-, 1 ' : 

 " Les Soirees Amusantes " (12 vols., 1874-'75) ; and 

 " La Dame Voilee " (1875). 



Rivier, Alphonse Pierre Octave, a Belgian 

 legal writer, born in Lausanne, Switzerland, Nov. 9, 



