OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 487, 21 April 1909, Page 8

OBITUARY.

; The "Standard of Empire" gives the following • •obituary; list 1 for the week ending March 12:— - ' ■ ' 6 Lord MoncreifF, .aged 68. ; ' ' Lord Moncreiff, - who came of an old and distinguished .Scottish family, was a Judge ?L- , our A ' Session in Edinburgh until 1905, when no resigned. The Mir of Khairpur. His Highness was one of the few Sind Mirs : supported the British cause during the ( first Afghan war. Ho was creatcd G.C.LE. in 1897, on' the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.' Bishop Kestell-Cornish, aged 85. .'•'••• The Eight Eev. Robert Kestell KestellCornish was for twenty yeahs Anglican' bishop or Madagascar. He resigned in 1896. The Earl of Howth, aged 81. . . , _The Earl of Howth (Sir ' William tflick Tristram St._Lawrcnce, K.P.) was an'ardent sportsman; rhe title becomes extinct. Canon Charles Thompson, aged 72. .<■'« " Canon Thompson was formerly preacher of Gray s Inn and vicar of Cardiff. He .vas an . old member of the Alpino,Club. Colonel Henry Gordon Watson. . ■ CdoneMVatson saw. service in the Stutli African. War, was mentioned, in ( dispatches, and received the Queen's medal with five clasps. ■ " . Lieutenant-Colonel- E. M: Nedham. ' Lioatenant-Colonel Nedham served in ■ tho Afghan_war_of 1878-9, in the Second Bazar Valley Expedition and in tho Burma Exnedi- ' tion of 188G-9. Mr. Ibrahim Ahmadi, aged 18. . the first Indian to'obtain ' tpa Fellowship of tho .Royal Institute of British Architects. Ho did much to preserve the ruins of tho Adil Shalu dynasty. The Rev, W. 8.-'Simpson. 1 Mr.'Simpson was a "well-known Wesloyan Methodist missionary. Ho spent somo sixteens years in work in India.. •

Mr. Henry Mason Bompas, K.C. Mr. Bompas frequently appeared in. Privy Council cases. Tho most important case lie was engaged in was that, of the British Scuth Africa Company v. Companhia do Mocambiquo in the Kouso of Lords. Mr.'ThomaSiWakley, aged 57. • : . Mr. Wakley was grandson of the founder of tho "Lancet," and up to his death > editor of tho paper. ; -