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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (HUGHES KIMBERLEY.) 



time of his death he was president of the London 

 Methodist Council. He vigorously and success- 

 fully opposed the proposal to admit Unitarians 

 to the National Council of Evangelical Free 

 Churches, and combated with equal vehemence 

 the exclusion of religious teaching from the 

 board schools. At the Review of Churches Confer- 

 ence at Grindelwald, Switzerland, in 1894, he 

 spoke on the possible reconciliation between Eng- 

 lish Dissenters and the Church of England, and 

 was also present at the Lucerne Conference the 

 previous year. He was editor of the Methodist 

 Times, and he published Social Christianity 

 (1889) ; Essential Christianity; Ethical Christian- 

 ity; The Philanthropy of God (1890); and The 

 Atheist Shoemaker (1891). 



Hughes, Richard, English homeopathist, born 

 in London in 1826; died in April, 1902. He be- 

 came a member of the Royal College of Surgeons 

 in 1857. He published Pharmacodynamics 

 (1867); A Manual of Therapeutics; Hahnemann 

 as a Medical Philosopher; and The Cyclopaedia of 

 Drug Pathology. 



Johnson, Lionel Pigot, English poet, born of 

 Irish parentage, at Broadstairs, Kent, England, 

 March, 1867; died in London, Oct. 4, 1902. He 

 was educated at Winchester College and at Ox- 

 ford. He was a stanch Roman Catholic, and 

 the influence of his mother Church is frequently 

 apparent, and equally evident is his strong Celtic 

 spirit. He did much in the field of literary criti- 

 cism, and to the general reader was perhaps bet- 

 ter known as a scholarly critic than as a poet, 

 through his contributions to critical periodicals. 

 His work in both directions exhibited much 

 promise, with not a little in the way of fulfil- 

 ment. His published books include The Art of 

 Thomas Hardy (1894); Poems (1896); and Ire- 

 land, with Other Poems (1897). 



Kent, William Charles Mark, English au- 

 thor, born in London, Nov. 3, 1823; died there, 

 Feb. 23, 1902. He was of Roman Catholic parent- 

 age, and received his education at Oscutt Col- 

 lege. He edited The Sun in 1845-70, and the 

 Weekly Register in 1874-'81. He also stiidied 

 law, and was called to the bar of the Middle 

 Temple in 1859. He was a frequent contributor 

 to works of reference, including the Dictionary 

 of National Biography and the Encyclopedia 

 Britannica, and was the author of the following 

 works: Catholicity in the Middle Ages (1847); 

 The Vision of Cagliostro (1847); Alethia, or the 

 Doom of Mythology, with Other Poems, much 

 praised by Lamartine (1850); What shall be 

 done with Cardinal Newman? (1850); The Derby 

 Ministry (1858) ; The Lives of Eminent Conserva- 

 tive Statesmen (1866); The Dickens Dinner 

 (1867); The Gladstone Government (1869); Poems 

 (1870); Mythological Dictionary (1870); Charles 

 Dickens as a Reader (1872) ; Corona Catholica ad 

 Petri Successoris Oblata (1880) ; and The Modern 

 Seven Wonders of the World (1890). Several of 

 his books appeared under the pseudonym of 

 Mark Rochester. He edited the miscellaneous 

 writings of the first Lord Lytton, and also the 

 writings of Father Prout, Burns, and his inti- 

 mate friend Leigh Hunt. 



Kimberley, John Wodehouse, Earl of, Brit- 

 ish statesman, born Jan. 7, 1826; died in London, 

 April 8, 1902. He was a son of Henry, son of 

 the second Baron Wodehouse, was educated at 

 Christ Church, Oxford, taking a first class in hu- 

 mane letters in 1847, married the daughter of the 

 Earl of Clare, took his seat in the House of Lords, 

 having succeeded his grandfather in 1846, and 

 was appointed Under-Secretary of State for For- 

 eign Affairs in 1852 by Lord' Aberdeen, holding 



the same post under Lord Palmerston during the 

 Crimean War. In 1863 Lord Wodehouse was de- 

 spatched by Lord John Russell to Copenhagen to 

 straighten out the Schleswig-Holstein imbroglio, 

 with instructions to uphold the London protocol 

 of 1850, recognizing the unity of Denmark, Schles- 

 wig-Holstein, and Lauenburg, and the treaty of 

 1852, securing the succession of Prince Christian 

 of Gliicksburg, without committing England, al- 

 though Denmark had violated engagements which 

 Germany considered a part of the treaty. Ger- 

 many and Austria had therefore threatened to 

 annul it and seize the duchies, but were willing 

 to accept the com- 

 promise proposed 

 by England' as 

 mediator, and Den- 

 mark, relying on 

 the armed inter- 

 vention of Eng- 

 land, had rejected 

 this compromise. 

 The succession of 

 Prince Christian to 

 the Danish throne 

 had brought mat- 

 ters to a focus. 

 The treaty could 

 not be carried out 

 because its terms 

 were contradic- 

 tory, the duchies 

 being declared to 

 be an integral part of Denmark, and yet the 

 rights of the German Federation over them wore 

 reserved. In the confusion the Prince of Au- 

 gustenburg revived his claim to the throne of 

 Holstein, and the German people were wrought 

 up over the wrongs of their kinsfolk in the duch- 

 ies, while the Danes grew frantic at the thought 

 of their kinsfolk and a part of their national ter- 

 ritory being swallowed up in Germany. It was a 

 question that England could solve only by an 

 arbitrary decision, with the will to back it up by 

 force. His Government supported the Danish 

 contention, but was unwilling to act, and there- 

 fore Lord Wodehouse failed. After his return he 

 was appointed Secretary of State for India, but 

 before he could decide with Sir John Lawrence, 

 the new Governor-General, on the course to be 

 followed in regard to the war in Bhutan and the 

 struggles of Shere AH, England's prottge, for 

 the Afghan throne, he was transferred toward 

 the end of 1864 to the post of Viceroy of Ireland, 

 which he filled for nearly two years, where he 

 made no mark, but on the strength of his arrest- 

 ing the early Fenians and in keeping with his offi- 

 cial advancement was raised in the peerage to be 

 Earl of Kimberley. The Liberal ministry of Earl 

 Russell was succeeded by that of the Earl of Derby 

 in July, 1866. When "Mr. Gladstone formed a 

 Cabinet in December, 1868, he made Lord Kim- 

 berley Lord Privy Seal. This office was ex- 

 changed in 1870 for that of Secretary of State for 

 the Colonies. Diamonds were discovered in Smith 

 Africa just then. When a mining-camp sprang 

 up on the spot it took the name of the Colonial 

 Secretary, under whose administration it was dis- 

 covered that, instead of belonging to the Oranijr 

 State farmers who had settled there, it belonged 

 to half-breed savages living elsewhere, and was 

 therefore British territory. During his first ten- 

 ure of the office Rupertsland was created into the 

 Canadian province of Manitoba in 1870, the Do- 

 minion was empowered to organize new provinces 

 in 1871 and the last British garrison was with- 

 drawn, Cape Colony received responsible gov- 



