OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (HLOMFIKLD B< 



Blomfield, Sir Arthur William, English 

 architect, born in the palace of the Bishop of 

 London, Fulham, March (5, 1829; died in London, 

 Oct. 30, 1899. He was the fourth son of Bishop 

 Blomfield, and was educated at Rugby and Cam- 

 bridge. He was for some time a pupil of Philip 

 Bardwick, the noted architect. In 1888 he was 

 elected an associate of the Royal Academy, and 

 in 1889 was knighted. He was a fellow of the In- 

 stitute of Architects, and vice-president of the 

 Institute, 1886-'87, while in 1891 he received the 

 gold medal of the Royal Institute of British 

 Architects. At the time of his death he was al- 

 most the latest prominent figure among the ar- 

 chitects of the Gothic revival, having within a 

 few months succeeded Pearson, perhaps the chief 

 of them all, as architect to the chapters of Lin- 

 coln and Chichester. He was not a great archi- 

 tect, but his work was always refined and schol- 

 arly. His designs were frankly imitative of the 

 best mediaeval examples, but the character of 

 his work was always intelligent, and exhibited 

 great excellence in execution. He paid much 

 attention to lighting, heating, and acoustics; 

 did not disdain galleries in his churches, and 

 even defended the use of iron pillars between 

 nave and aisles. His fame will principally de- 

 pend upon his design of the nave of St. Saviour's 

 Church, Southwark. The number of his works 

 is very great, but in the latest of these his tw r o 

 sons were associated with him. Ecclesiastical 

 architecture was his specialty. He restored a 

 large number of mediaeval buildings, ecclesiastical 

 and secular, usually in a conservative fashion. 

 Some few of the many important erections with 

 which he was concerned are St. Mary's Church, 

 Portsea; St. Alban's English Church at Copen- 

 hagen; St. Katherine's Training College; the ca- 

 thedral at Georgetown, Demerara; Selwyn Col- 

 lege, Cambridge; Sion College, Victoria Embank- 

 ment, a very successful achievement in secular 

 Gothic. Next to the nave of St. Saviour's, St. 

 Mary's, Portsea, appears to have been regarded 

 as his best work. 



Bonheur, Rosalie (commonly called Rosa), 

 French painter, born in Bordeaux, March 22, 

 1822; died in Paris, May 25, 1899. She was the 

 daughter of a painter, and devoted herself to art 

 in early youth. Before long she was a rival of 

 Baseassat and Landseer as an animal painter. 

 She was addicted to compositions of large dimen- 

 sions. The principal galleries of modern paint- 

 ings in Europe and America have examples of her 

 art. She practiced sculpture also. In foreign 

 countries her reputation was as great as in 

 France. She directed for many years the free 

 school of design for girls. Her pictures include 

 Horses in a Meadow, The Three Musketeers, A 

 Drove on the Road, Bucks in Repose, Deer Cross- 

 ing an Open Space, Plowing with Oxen, which 

 is in the Luxembourg, and by some is con- 

 sidered her masterpiece), and The Horse Fair. 

 The last named was the work of a year and a 

 half, was exhibited in 1853, and is now in the 

 Metropolitan Museum, New York. The National 

 Gallery, London, has a replica. Miss Bonheur 

 received several medals and other prizes and the 

 cross of the Legion of Honor. Larnelle wrote a 

 sketch of her life, with an essay on her work 

 (1885). 



Borlase, William Copeland, an English ar- 

 chaeologist, born in Cornwall in 1848; died in 

 London, March 31, 1899. He was educated at 

 Winchester and Oxford, and was called to the 

 bar in 1882. From 1880 he sat in Parliament. 

 He was president of the Royal Institute of Corn- 

 wall, and attained prominence as an archaeolo-" 



gist. His published books include NViiisi Cor- 

 nubiee: A Descriptive Kssay (London, 1872); Ni 

 phon and its Antiquities (Plymouth, IH70) ; Sun 

 Ways: A Record of Travel (Plymouth, Is7); 

 The Age of the Saints: A Monograph of Kurly 

 Christianity in Cornwall (Truio, JH7S). 



Bowen, Sir George Ferguson, a BritUh ad- 

 ministrator, born in County Donegal, Ireland, in 

 1821; died in Brighton, Feb. 21, 1891). lie was 

 educated at Oxford, gaining a scholarship in 1H40, 

 and became a member of Lincoln's Inn, but was 

 not called to the bar. In 1847 lie was made presi- 

 dent of the university established in Corfu, then 

 under British administration. Becoming Secre- 

 tary of the Government of Corfu, through his fa- 

 miliarity with Italian and modern Greek and his 

 knowledge of Eastern affairs, he was of assistance 

 to Mr. Gladstone when the latter was sent out in 

 1858 as High Commissioner to inquire into the 

 constitution of the Ionian Islands. In 1859 Sir 

 George Bowen was appointed Governor of Queens- 

 land, when it was erected into a separate colony. 

 In 1807 he was transferred to New Zealand, and 

 in 1873 became Governor of Victoria, and" from 

 1879 till 1883 was Governor of Mauritius. His 

 last appointment was Hong-Kong. He was the 

 author of Ithaca in 1850 (London, 1851); Mount 

 Athos, Thessaly, and Epirus (1852; a Handbook 

 for Travelers in Greece (1854) ; and Thirty Years 

 of Colonial Government (1889). 



Bowerling, Adelaide (Mrs. J. B. Steele), 

 English actress, born in Sunderland in 1838; died 

 in Wandsworth, England, May 26, 1899. She 

 made her first appearance at Sunderland in 1854. 

 She was leading lady of the Brighton Theater 

 when Miss Braddon, the novelist, played as a 

 member of that company under the name of Mary 

 Seaton. She was in the original production o"f 

 The Hidden Hand at the Olympic Theater, Lon- 

 don, and was soon afterward engaged to go to 

 Australia by George Copping, who at that time 

 was managing theaters in Sydney and Melbourne. 

 She became at once a great favorite as a leading 

 lady and star in that country, and remained 

 there at the head of her calling for more than 

 seventeen years. She returned to London ten 

 years before her death, and after one or two 

 engagements retired permanently. 



Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison, a 

 Scottish clergyman, born in Auchinlech, Scotland, 

 Nov. 3, 1825; died in Bournemouth, England, 

 March 1, 1899. He was educated at King's Col- 

 lege, London, and at the Glasgow University, 

 and was ordained in the Church of Scotland in 

 1851. He was successively minister of the par- 

 ishes of Newton-on-Ayr, Kirkpatrick-lrongray in 

 Dumfriesshire, and St. Bernard's in Edinburgh. 

 In 1865 he became minister of a parish at St. 

 Andrew's, and in that city the remainder of his 

 life was spent. In 1890 he was moderator of the 

 General Assembly, the highest office in the 

 Church of Scotland. As the " Country Parson " 

 he won considerable reputation in the sixties by 

 his volumes of contemplative essays, written in 

 a light, entertaining style. Concerning Veal and 

 Concerning the Advantages of being a Cantan- 

 kerous Fool were among the most noted of these. 

 But the public taste presently wearied of these 

 pleasant but by no means profound papers, and 

 for many years their author was almost forgotten 

 outside of a small circle till in later life he pub- 

 lished several volumes of readable reminiscences, 

 which somewhat revived his fame. His work sel- 

 dom gave evidence of original thought, but he 

 was always pleasantly persuasive, and until his 

 mannerisms palled upon the general taste was 

 thoroughly readable. His writings comprise The 



