Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 187

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O'CONOR DON, Rt. Hon. Charles Owen O'Conor, P. C., LL. D .:

ford, 1883; passed Irish Industrial Schools Act, 1868; Irish Sunday Closing Act, 1879; member of Penal Servitude Acts Commis- sion, 1863; Factories and Workshops Com- mission, 1875; Registration of Deeds Com- mission, 1878; Land Law (Bessborough) Commission, 1880; Reformatories and In- dustrial Schools Commissions, 1882; Chair- man of Financial Relations Commission, 1896. Publications: History of the O'Con- ors of Connaught; esssays on Freedom of Education, Irish Land Tenure, Taxation of Ireland. Address: Clonalis, Castlerea, Co. Roscommon; Granite Hall, Kingstown, Co. Dublin. Clubs: Reform, Athenæum; Kildare Street and Stephen's Green, Dub- lin.

OLDFIELD, Dr. Josiah:

Physician; born Shrewsbury; married Miss Gertrude Hick. Educated: Newport Grammar School; Oxford University. Took a second class in the Honour School of Theology at Oxford and then a second class in the School of Civil Law; entered at Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the Bar, and practised on the Oxford circuit; then joined St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and took his medical diploma, and later founded the Humanitarian Hospital of St. Francis, S.E., of which he was for some years chairman and senior physician; he was awarded the degree of Doctor in Civil Law (D.C.L.) at Oxford for his thesis on Capital Punishment; while at Oxford he adopted the Frutarian diet, and has since then strenously advocated its adoption by the higher classes for æsthetic and hu- mane reasons; founded the Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment, 1901; spent some time in India in the winter of 1901 studying the effect of the English Government on the people of India, and trying at same

the time to

dis- cover the reality of their grievance, and at the same time to learn the cause of the failure of Christian Mis- sions in India. Publications: The Claims of Common Life; Flesh-eating a Cause of Consumption; Butchery and Its Hor- rors; Essays of the Golden Oge; The Pen- alty of Death; and many booklets and pamphlets. Recreations: Surgeon-captain in the 1st Vol. Batt. Essex Regiment; lecturing on Fruitarianism and humane reforms; tree-planting. Address: 5 Har- ley Street, W .; Carn Brae, Bromley, Kent. OSBOURNE, Lloyd:

H.M.'s Lieut. and Custos Rotulorum of Co. Roscommon since 1888; born Dublin, 7 May 1838; eldest son of late Denis O'Conor Don and Mary, daughter of Maj. Blake, Towerhill; married 1st, Georgina, daughter of T. A. Perry, Bitham House, Warwickshire, 1868; 2nd, Ellen, daughter of. John More O'Ferral, Lisard, Co. Long- Born San Francisco, 7 April 1868; son of Samuel Osbourne and Fanny Van de Grift (who afterwards married Robert Louis ford, 1879. Educated: St. Gregory's Coll. Downside; London University. M.P. (L.) Co. Roscommon, 1860-80; contested Wex- |Stevenson); married Katherine Durham,

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1896. Educated: tutors; private schools; [Guilderoy, 1889; Ruffino, 1890; Syrlin, 1890;

Edinburgh University. United States Vice-Consul General, Samoa and Friend- ly Islands, to 1896. Publications: In col- laboration with Robert Louis Stevenson- The Wrong Box, 1889; The Wrecker, 1892; The Ebb Tide, 1894. By himself-The Queen versus Billy; The Renegade; Love, the Fiddler; The Exile (in collaboration with Austin Strong), an historical drama produced in London on May 9th by Mr. Martin Harvey; and many other stories in the magazines. Recreations: boxing, sailing, riding. Address: (summer) Bo- hemian Club, San Francisco, Cal .; (win- ter) Lambs' Club, New York City.

OSLER, William, M. D., F. R. S., F. R. C. P. (Lond.), Hon. D. Sc .:

Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford, since 1904; born Bond Head, Canada, 12 July 1849; 6th son of late Rev. F. L. Os- ler; married 1892, Grace, eldest daughter of late John Revere of Boston, Mass. Ed- ucated: Trinity College School; Trin. Coll. Toronto; Toronto Univ .; M'Gill Univ. Montreal; Univ. Coll. London; Berlin and Vienna, D.Sc. Oxford; LL.D. M'Gill Univ. Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Yale, and Harvard Univs .; D.C.L. Orin. Univ. Toronto. Pro- fessor of the Institutes of Medicine, M'Gill Univ. 1874-84; Professor of Clinical Medi- cine, Univ. of Penna, 1884-89; Johns Hop- kins University, 1889-1904; Gulstonian Lecturer, Royal College of Physicians, London, 1885. Publications: Cerebral Palsies of Children, 1889; Chorea and Choreiform Affections, 1894; the Principles and Practice of Medicine, 5th cd. 1902; Lectures on Abdominal Tumours, 1895; On Angina Pectoris and Allied States, 1897; Monograph on Cancer of the Stomach, 1900. Recreation: bibliography. Address: Oxford. Clubs: Savile; Maryland; Uni- versity, New York.

OUIDA (Mdlle. Louise de la Ramée) :

Novelist; born Bury St. Edmunds; father English, mother French. Publications: Held in Bondage, 1863; Strathmore, 1865; Chandos, 1866; Under Two Flags, 1867; Idalia, 1867; Tricotrin, 1869; Puck, 1870; Tolle-Farine, 1871; A Dog of Flanders, 1872; Pascarel, 1873; Two Little Wooden Shoes, 1874; Signa, 1875; In a Winter City, 1876; The Story of a Dream, 1877; Friendship, 1878; Moths, 1880; A Village Commune, 1881; In Maremma, 1882; Bimbi Stones for Children, 1882; Dramatic Sketches, 1883; Wanda, 1883; Pipistrello, and other Stories, 1884; Princess Napraxine, 1884; A Rainy June, 1885; Othmar, 1885; Don Gesualdo, 1886; A House Party, 1887;

The Tower of Taddeo, 1890; Santa Bar- bara, 1891; The New Prieshood, 1893; The Silver Christ, 1894; Two Offenders, 1894; Le Selve, 1896; The Massarenes, 1897; Toxin, an Altruist, 1897; La Strega, 1899; The Waters of Edera, 1900; Critical Studies, 1900; Street Dust, 1901. Address: Lucca, Italy.

OXFORD, Bishop of, since 1901, Rt. Rev. Francis Paget, D. D .:

Chancellor of Order of the Garter; born 20 Mar. 1851; 2nd son of Sir James Paget, Bt .; married Helen Beatrice (died 1900), eldest daughter of the Very Rev. R. W. Church, 1883. Educated: St. Marylebone and All Souls Grammar School; Shrews- bury School; Christ Church, Oxford. Hertford Scholarship, 1871; Chancellor's Prize for Latin Verse, 1871; First Class Moderations, 1871; First Class (Lit.Hum.), 1873. Senior student Christ Church, Ox- ford, 1873; tutor, 1876; Oxford preacher at Whitehall, 1882-83; examining chaplain to Bishop of Ely; Vicar of Bromsgrove, 1883- 85; Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology and Canon of Christ Church, 1885; chap- lain to Bishop of Oxford, 1892; Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, 1892-1901. Publi- cations: Concerning Spiritual Gifts; The Redemption of Work; Faculties and Diffi- culties for Belief and Disbelief; The Hal- lowing of Work; Essay in Lux Mundi- on Sacraments; The Spirit of Discipline; Studies in the Christian Character; In- troduction to 5th Book of Hooker's Ec- clesiastical Polity; The Redemption of War; Christ the Way; A Primary Charge. Address: Cuddesdon, Oxon.

PADEREWSKI, Ignace Jan:

Pianist and composer; born Podolia, a province of Russian Poland, 6 Nov. 1860. At the early age of three began to play the piano; at seven, placed by father under the care of a local teacher, Pierre Lowinski, and with him remained for four years. In 1872 went to Warsaw, where the foundation of the knowledge of har- mony and counterpoint was acquired from Roguski, but subsequently pursued this branch of studies under the late Freder- ick Kiel of Berlin. Shortly after this date, undertook first tour, which included Russia, Siberia, and Roumania. At 18

years of age became a teacher. In 189y abandoned teaching, and resolved to adqfe the career of a virtuoso; accordingly 10 moved to Vienna, and placed hin

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under his fellow-countryman, Theador Leschetizky, and at the expiration of three years' hard study made his debut. Afterwards paid several visits to the provincial towns of Germany, and in the autumn of 1889 made his first appearance before a Parisian audience. First appear- ance in England took place at St. James's Hall, London, on 9th May 1890; has paid four visits to America. In 1898 appointed by King Humbert a Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy, as a sou- venir of his appearance at the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome.

FAGET, Major-General Arthur Henry:

C. B. 1904; C.V.O .; commanding 1st Di- vision 1st Army Corps since 1902; born 1851; son of late Gen. Lord A. H. Paget, C.B .; married 1878, Mary (see Mrs. Ar- thur Paget). Entered Scots Guards, 1869; Lt .- Col. 1882; Col. 1895; Maj .- Gen. 1900; served Ashanti War, 1873 (medal with clasp); Soudan, 1885 (medal with clasp. Khedive's star); Burmah, 1887-88 (medal with clasp); Soudan. 1888-89, including action of Gemaizah (clasp) commanded 1st Scots Guards, South Africa, until pro- moted; commanded 20th Brigade (des- patches, medal, 6 clasps). Address: 35 Belgrave Square, S.W.

PAVY, Frederick W., M. D., LL.D., F. F. R. S .:

Consulting Physician to, and formerly Lecturer on Physiology, on Comparative Anatomy and Zoology, and on Medicine, at Guy's Hospital. London; born Wilt- shire, 29 May 1828; married 1854. Edu- cated: Merchant Taylors' School. Pres. of Assoc. for Advancement of Medicine by Research. and of National Committee for Great Britain and Ireland of International Medical Congress; Ex-Pres. of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical, and of the Pa- thological Society Gulstonian Lecturer, 1862 and 1863; Croonian Lecturer, 1878 and 1894, Harveian Orator, 1886, and Baly Gold Medallist, 1901, at Royal College of Physicians, London. Publications: On the Nature and Treatment of Diabetes, 2nd ed. 1869; A Treatise on the Function of Digestion, its Disorders and their Treat- ment, 2nd ed. 1869; A Treatise on Food and Dietetics, 2nd ed. 1875; Physiology of the Carbohydrates, 1896. Recreation: tra- velling. Owns 100 acres in Wiltshire. Address: 35 Grosvenor Street, W. Club: Athenæum.

PEARSON, Cyril Arthur:

Principal shareholder in and managing director of C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd., the Daily Express, Ltd., and several other Pike, Salmon and Trout; The Sporting

newspaper companies in London and the Provinces; Chairman of the Tariff Re- form League, and Vice-Chairman of Tar- iff Commission, 1903; born Wookey, near Wells, 24 Feb. 1866; oldest son of Rev. A. Cyril Pearson and Phillippa Maxwell- Lyte; married 1897, Ethe, 3rd daughter of W. J. Fraser. Educated: Winchester. After leaving Winchester, and completing his education for two years at home, joined staff of Sir George Newnes; rapidly rose to position of manager; occupied it for four years, and then left to start Pearson's Weekly; made a rapid success of this, and followed it with Home Notes,

Pearson's

Magazine,

Royal

Magazine,

Lady's Magazine, M.A.P., Rapid Review, and other periodicals. His most important venture so far is the Daily Express, a halfpenny London morning paper, started April 1900; has since then founded the North Mail and Evening Mail in New- castle-on-Tyne, the Gazette and Express in Birmingham, the Evening Despatch in the same city, and the Evening News in Leicester, and has recently become the principal owner of the St. James's Gaz- ette. Recreations: all kinds of in-door and out-door sports, especially riding and motoring. Address: Frensham Place, Farnham, Surrey; 4 Whitehall Court, S. W. Clubs: Devonshire, Bath.

PENNELL, Elizabeth Robins:

Author; wife of Joseph Pennell, q.v. PENNELL, Henry Cholmondeley:

Author, poet, sportsman; owner of Rossetti Mansions, Chelsea, and Palace Mansions, Kensington; born London, 1837, eldest son of Sir Henry Pennell and Har- riet Emily, daughter of Philip Francis, and graddaughter of Sir Philip Fran- cis (Junius' Letters). Educated: Private tutor. Entered public service, 1853; Insp. of Sea Fisheries, 1866-75; selected by English Gov. to initiate commercial and other reforms in Egypt, 1875; afterwards appointed Director-General of Interior Commerce. Publications: verse -- Puck on Pegasus, 1861; Crescent? 1866; Modern Babylon, 1873; Muses of Mayfair, 1874; Pegasus Re-saddled, 1877; From Grave to Gay, 1885; sport and natural history- How to Spin for Pike, 1862; The Angler- Naturalist, 1864; The Book of the Pike, 1866; Fishing Gossip, 1867; Modern Prac- tical Angler, 1873; two vols. in Badminton Library of Sport, viz. Salmon and Trout, and Pike and other Coarse Fish, 1885; Fly and Worm Fishing for Salmon Trout and Grayling; Float Fishing; Trolling for

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Fish of Great Britain, 1886; Oyster Fish- | London, 1866; M.R.C.P., 1867; F.R. C.P., 1873; President Royal Medical

eries and Legislation; The Oyster and Musel Fisheries of France; and other pamphlets and reports on Sea Fisheries; edited the Fisherman's Magazine and Re- view. Recreations: fishing, skating, huat- ing, bicycling, shooting (won the Grand Prix of Monaco, and also the Universal Championship, Grand Prix of Ostend. Dieppe). etc. Address: 24 West Kensing- ton Gardens, W. Clubs: Hurlingham, Fly- fishers', Queen's, Sports, etc.

POTTER, Cora Urquhart (Mrs. Brown Potter) :

Actress; born New Orleans; daughter of Colonel David Urquhart and Augusta Slo- cum; married J. B. Potter of N.Y., U.S.A. Educated: home. Played as an amateur for several years in America, obtaining 50.000 dollars thereby for charities; first appearance professionally, London, Hay- market, 1887; has played during three tours round the world in every country where English is spoken, and as "Miladi" at Her Majesty's, in Carnac Sahib, and The Ghetto, 1899; during 1901 at Avenue and Palace Theatres. Mrs. Potter was the first to move in the matter of obtaining funds for the Hospital Ship "Maine" pre . sented to His Majesty by the ladies of America; she recited Pone's ode Vital Spark from the steps of the altar in Gorleston Church at the request of the vicar, in his endeavour to bring Church and Stage into practical relations; and has on several occasions recited for the Rev. Kerr Gray in St. George's Chapel, Albermarle Street; recited the "Antigone" at the Bristol Musical Festival, October, 1902. Publications: My Recitations; sev- eral magazine articles in New York. Rec- reations: growing flowers; all outdoor amusements. Address: Bray Lodge, Fish- ery Estate, Maidenhead.

POWELL, Sir Richard Douglas:

1st Bt .; cr. 1897; K.C.V.O .; cr. 1901; M.D., F.R.C.P .. . M.R.C.S .; Physician Ex- traordinary to the King since 1901; Con- sulting Physician to Middlesex Hosp .; Consulting Physician to Brompton and Ventnor Hosps .; Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem since 1898; Deputy-Chairman of the Clerical, Medical and General Life Assurance Society; born Walthamstow, 25 Sept. 1842; 2nd and old- est surviving son of late Captain Scott Powell, formerly 23rd Royal Welsh Fu- siliers; married Juliet, 2nd daughter of Sir John Bennett, Kt., 1873. Enucated: Streatham, University Coll. Hospital; graduated in Honours, University of

Chir. Society; late President of the

Clinical and Medical Societies; Sen-

College ior Censor of Royal of

Physicians; Physician in Ordinary to

Queen Victoria, 1899. Publications: on

various medical subjects. Recreation:

out-door exercise. Heir: son Douglas, born 1874, R.W. Fusiliers (B.A. Oxon.). Address: 62 Wimpole Street, W. Ciub: Oriental.

POWER, D'Arcy :

Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London; Senior Surgeon to the Victoria Hospital for Children, Chelsea; Consult- ing Surgeon to Bromley Cottage Hospital, Kent, Hospital for Diseases of the Hip, Sevenoaks, and Clergy Orphan School, Bushey; born London, 11 Nov. 1855; eldest son of Henry Power, F.R.C.S. (Eng.) [q.v.] ; married Eleanor, youngest daugh- ter of George Haynes Fosbroke of Bid- ford. Stratford-on-Avon. Educated.

Merchant Taylors' School, London; New and Exeter Colls. Oxford. B.A. with 1st class honours in Natural Science. 1878: M.A. 1881; M.B. 1882; F.R.C.S.(Eng.), 1883; F.S.A. 1897. Treasurer of Samuel Pepys Club; formerly Surgeon in charge of Throat Department, St. Bartholomew's Hospital; formerly Examiner in the Uni- versities of Cambridge and Durham, and at the R.C.S. (Eng.); Hunterian Profes- sor of Surgery, R.C.S .; Secretary of the National Committee for Great Britain and Ireland of the International Medical Congress, Paris (1900), Madrid (1903), Lisbon (1906). Publications: various contributions on cancer, intestinal ob- struction, and the surgical diseases of children; Memorials of the Craft of Surgery; A Life of William Harvey; and lives of eminent surgeons in the Diction- ary of National Biography. Recreations: rowing and bicycling. Address: 10a Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, W. Club: Oxford and Cambridge.

PRAED, Rosa Caroline Mackworth:

Born Queensland, Australia. 27 Mar. 1851; eldest daughter of Thomas Lodge Murray Prior, for many years Postmas- ter-Gen. of Queensland, married 1872, Campbell Mackworth Praed (died 1901). Publications: An Australian Heroine, 1880; Policy and Passion, 1881; Nadine, 1882; Moloch, 1883; Zero, 1884; Affinities, 1885; The Brother of the Shadow, 1885; The Head Station, 1885; The Bond of Wedlock, 1887; Miss Jacobsen's Chance, 1887; The Romance of a Station, 1889,

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Romance of a Chalet, 1891; December

Roses, 1893; Outlaw and Lawmaker,

1893: Christina Chard, 1894; Mrs. Tre- gaskiss. 1896; The Scourge Stick, 1898; Madame Izan, 1899; As a Watch in the Night, 1900; The Insane Root; Dwellers by the River; My Australian Girlhood. 1902; Fugitive Anne. 1903; Nuria. 1904. Address: 98 Oakwood Court, Melbury Road, Kensington, W.

QUILLER-COUCH, Arthur Thomas,

B. A .:

Writer; born Cornwall, 21 Nov. 1863; eldest son of late Thomas Quiller-Couch; grandson of Jonathan Couch, Polperro, the ichthyologist. Educated: Newton Ab- hot College; Clifton College: Trin. Coll. Oxford. Lecturer Classics Trin. Col Ox- ford. 1886-87: removed to London; was connected with the Speaker from its commencement until autumn of 1890; in 1891 left London for his native county. where he has since resided. Publications: Dead Man's Rock. 1887; Troy Town. 1888: The Splendid Spur, 1889; Noughts and Crosses. 1891; The Blue Pavilions, 1891; I Saw Three Ships, 1892; The Warwick- shire Avon, 1892; The Delectable Duchy, 1893; Green Bays; Verses and Parodies, 1893; Wandering Heath, 1895; The Golden Pomp. 1895; Ta, 1896; Adventures in Criti- cism. 1896; Poems and Ballads, 1896; The Shin of Stars, 1889 ; Old Fires and Prof- itable Ghosts, 1900; The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1900; The Laird's Luck, 1901; The Westcotes, 1902; The White Wolf, 1902; The Adventures of Harry Revel, 1903; Hetty Wesley, 1903; Two Sides of the Face, 1903; Fort Amity, 1904. In 1897 was commissioned to finish R. L. Stevenson's uncompleted novel St. Ives. Recreations : yachting, rowing, Address: The Haven, Fowey, Cornwall. Clubs : Royal Western Yacht, Fowey Yacht (Rear-Commodore).

RAMSAY, Sir William, K. C. B .:

Cr. 1902; LL.D., D.Sc .. Ph.D., F.R.S., F.C.S .; Officier de la Légion d'honneur; Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, Hon. Member of the Royal Acad- emies of Ireland. Berlin, Bohemia, Hol- iand. St. Petersburg, Turin. Roumania, Vienna. and Sweden; and of the Acade- mies of Geneva, Frankfort, and Mexico; and of the German Chemical Society; of the Pharmaceutical Society; of the Philo-

sophical Societies of Manchester, Phila - delphia and Rotterdam; Professor of Chemistry University College, London, since 1887; born Glasgow, 2 Oct. 1852; old- est son of late William Ramsay, C.E., and Catherine Robertson; married 1881, Margaret, daughter of George Stevenson Buchanan. ducated: Glasgow Academy and University; Tübingen University. Assistant "Young" Laboratory of Techni- cal Chemistry, 1872-74; Tutorial Assistant of Chemistry, Glasgow University, 1874- 80; Professor of Chemistry University Coll. Bristol. 1880-87; Principal University Coll. Bristol, 1881-87. Publications: numerous papers, the most important of which are perhaps The Molecular Surface-Energy of Liquids; Argon, A New Constituent of the Atmosphere (in conjunction with Lord Rayleigh) ; and Helium, A Constituent of Certain Minerals; also Neon, Krypton, and Xenon, three new atmospheric gases; two text-books of Chemistry, and of The Discovery of the Constituents of the Air. Recreations: languages, cycling. Address: 19 Chester Terrace. Regent's Park, N.W .; University College, Gower Street, W.C. Club: Savile.

RANJITSINHJI, Prince Kumar Shri:

Born Saroar. in the prov. of Kathiawar, 10 Sep. 1872; son of the Jam of Navanagar. Educated: Rajkumar College, Rajkote, India; Trinity College, Cambridge. First appearance for Sussex County Cricket Club. 1895; head of the Sussex averages same year: became head of the Sussex averages. 1895-1902; champion batsman for All England in 1896 and 1900, scoring 2.780 runs with an average of 59.91; went with Stoddart's All England XI. to Aus- tralia, 1897-98. Publications : The Jubilee Book of Cricket. Recreations: cricket, shooting, tennis, racquets, cycling, ang- ling, pig-sticking, and skating. Ad- dress. 22 Sidney Street, Cambridge.

REED, Sir Edward James, K. C. B .:

Cr. 1880; F.R.S .; M.P. (R.) Cardiff Dis- trict since 1900; J.P .; born 1830; married Rosetta. daughter of Nathaniel Barnaby, 1851. Educated: School of Mathematics and Naval Construction, Portsmouth, Chief Constructor of Navy, 1863-70; Lord of Treasury, 1886; M.P. Pembroke, 1874-80; Cardiff, 1880-95. Publications: Our Ironclad Ships, 1869; Letters from Russia in 1875-1876; Japan, 1880; The Stability of Ships, 1884; Fort Minster, M.P., 1885; Modern Ships of War (with Admiral Simpson), 1888; Poems, 1902. Address: Broadway Chambers, West- minster, S.W .; The Lodge, Ascot.

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REYNOLDS, James Emerson, M. D., 1879-83;

D. Sc., F. R. S. 1880:

Mem. of Roy. Coll. of Phys. Dublin and Edin .; Pres. Chemical Soc. London, 1902-03; Vice-Pres. Roy. Soc. of London, 1902; born Booterstown, Co. Dublin, 1844; son of Dr. James Reynolds; mar- ried Janet, oldest child of Canon Finlay- son, Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin,

1875. Educated: Dublin University

(M.D. and D.Sc., causa honoris). Be- came Keeper of Minerals at National Museum, Dublin, 1867; Professor of

Analytical Chemistry to Royal Dublin Society, 1870; Professor of Chemistry to Royal Coll. of Surgeans, Ireland, 1873, President Society of Chemical Industry, 1891; President of Section British Asso- ciation, 1893; Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Philosophy Dublin University, 1875-1903; discovered a large number of chemical substances, including the pri- mary Thiocarbamide and many of its allies, a new class of colloids, and later, several groups of organic and other de- rivatives of the element silicon; these are described in a series of papers in Trans. Chemical Society and to Royal Society; also papers on the Periodic Law, Spectrum Analysis, and Electro-Chem- istry. Publications: Lectures on Experi- mental Chemistry, 1874; General Experi- mental Chemistry, 1880. Recreations: horticulture. Address: 29 Campden Hill Court, Kensington, W.

RIPON, Bishop of (since 1884), Rt. Rev. William Boyd Carpenter, D. D .:

Hon. Fellow of St. Catherine's Coll., Cam- bridge; Hon. D.D. Glasgow; Hon. D.C.L. Oxon; Hon. D.C.L. Durham; Knight of the Order of the Royal Crown, Prussia; Clerk of the Closet since 1903; born Liver- pool, 26 March 1841; son of Rev. Henry Carpenter, incumbent of St. Michael's, Leverpool, and Hester, daughter of Archi- bald Boyd. Londonderry, Ireland; married 1st, 1864, Harriet Charlotte, oldest daugh- ter of Rev. J. W. Peers, of Chislehamp- ton, Oxon; 2nd, 1883, Annie Maude, daugh- ter of W. W. Gardiner. Educated: Royal Institution School, Liverpool; St. Cath. Coll. Camb. (Scholar). Senior Optime, 1864; Hulsean Lecturer, Cambridge, 1878; Bampton Lecturer, Oxford, 1887; Pastoral Lecturer on Theology, Cambridge, 1895. Curate of All Saints, Maidstone, 1864-66; St. Paul's Clapham, 1866-67; Holy Trinity Lee, 1867-70; Vicar of St. James's, Hollo- way, 1870-79; Vicar of Christ Church. Lancaster Gate, 1879-84; Canon of Wind- sor, 1882-84; hon. chaplain to the Queen,

chaplain-in-ordinary, 1883-84.

Publications: Commentary on Revelation, 1879; Thoughts on Prayer, 1871; Witness of Heart to Christ (Hulsean Lectures), 1879; Permanent Elements of Religion (Bampton Lectures), 1889; Lectures on Preaching, 1895; Christian Reunion, 1895; The Great Charter of Christ, 1895; Dis- trict Visitors' Companion, 1881; My Bible, 1884; Truth in Tale, 1884 ;; Twilight Dreams, 1894; A Popular History of the Church of England, 1900; The Religious Spirit of the Poets, 1900; The Wisdom of James the First, 1902; Introduction to Study of the Bible, 1902. Recreation: has a fair collection of Dante literature. Address: The Palace, Ripon; 71 Carlisle Place, S.W .; Trevissome, Cornwall. Club: Athenæum.

ROBERTS of Kandahar, Pretoria, and

Waterford, 1st Earl (cr. 1901), Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts:

Viscount St. Pierre (cr. 1901), 1st Baron (cr. 1892), P. C., K.P., G.C.B., G. C.S.I., G.C.I.E., V.C., D.C.L., LL.D .; Order of Merit; Field-Marshal. [Title derived from services in Afghanistan, particu- larly at Kandahar, and from the long connection of his family with Water- ford.] Born Cawnpore, India, 30 Sept. 1832; son of Gen. Sir Abraham Roberts, G.C.B. and Isabella, daughter of Maj. Abraham Bunbury, 62nd Foot, Kilfeache, Co. Tipperary; married 17 May 1859, Nora Henrietta, daughter of Capt. Bews, 73rd Foot. Protestant. Educated: Ea- ton; Sandhurst; Addiscombe, D.C.L. Ox- ford, 1881; LL.D. Dublin, 1880; LL.D. Cambridge, 1893; LL.D. Edinburgh, 1893; LL.D. Durham, 1903; freedom of the cities of London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Bristol, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Dundee, Waterford, Cardiff, Chesterfield, Windsor and Durham, and royal boroughs of In- verness, Wick and Dunbar. 2nd Lieut. Bengal Artillery, 12 Dec. 1851; Lieut., 3rd June 1857; Capt., 12 Nov. 1860; Brev. Maj., 13 Nov. 1860; Brev. Lieut .- Col., 15 Aug. 1868; Brev. Col., 30 Jan. 1875; Maj .- Gen,, 31 Dec. 1878; Lieut .- Gen., 26 July 1883; Gen., 28 Nov. 1890; Field-Mar., 25 May 1895; D.A.Q.M.G. throughout Indian Mutiny; A.Q.M.G. (Bengal), 1863-68; 1st A.Q.M.G, 1869-72; D.Q.M.G., 1872-75; Q.M.G. in India, 1875-78; commanded Kuram Field Force, Nov. 1878-Sept. 1879; commanded Kabul Field Force, Sept. 1879-April 1880; commanded Kabul- Kandahar Field Force, Aug .- Sept. 1880; commanded in Southern Afghanistan,

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Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 187

Author: Publication date: 1904- Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co., etc. Number of Pages: 1100

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