OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 542, 24 June 1909, Page 8

OBITUARY.

: The "Standard, of Empire," of May i 4, contains tbo following obitirary notices Admiral E. Neville Rolfe, C 3., aged 61., Admiral Rolfe served with / the , Naval , Brigade durmg ;the ! Ashanti, campaign of 1873, and distinguished himself during the operations' on the "Congo and Niger river's ill; He 'waß; appointed commander of the : -Victoria and 'Albert, in , 1879. .He served during tho Egyptian campaign of i .1882,. and commanded the Naval Bngado ,in the Sudan expedition, and was present! at tho actions of Kl Teb and Tamaai. . MajoiyGeneral Riohard Bracken. .. • Major-General, Bracken, who was born in 1831,,• passed, hisi career entirely in. the ' Indian Axmy; and: saw a good - deal of service. - Ho was, an . Indian ' Mutiny > ■■■' ■■■'■• ■ ■'~■. 7 .. l' 4. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Clarke, aged 82. Lieutenant-Colonel' Clarko - emigrated from England., as a lad, and-began work oa.a farm-near Niagara.) He then became a journalist in Hamilton, Ontario, and at Elora edited a paper called the- "Baok- ; woodsman." Ho served as-lieuienant with the local rifle corps against Fenian raiders on the frontier, and became LieutenantColonel of-.the 30th Battalion of the Canadian Mihtiaj and commanded that unit till 1893. - An, active member of this Liboral party,- he, sat in:tho Provincial Legis-lature-from 1871 till 1891, being for six years; its Speaker, and. ouly 'retired from membership of the Assembly' to become its permanent Clerk. ■ 1 •■ • Major-General J. /Jogo-Trelawny,- aged S3 Major-General Jago-Trelawny foilght ' in the Egyptian war,- and; led' the Highland Bngado in. the night attaclc at Tel-el-Kobir.'

Mr. ,W. M*Leod Read, C.M.G., aged 90 Mr. Read was formerly a merchant at Singapore, aud was an honorary police magistrate and J.P. there from 1862 to ,1885. He was a member of tho municipality . for fifteen -, years, six. as president. Ho represented officially the Netherlands in, Singapore for many years.. : Captain Francis Markham, Captain Markbam screed in Kong-Kong, India, and. Central .Africa, and was one of tho two passengors who alona were saved from tho wrcck of the Bokhara in 1892. :Mr. S.'Stuart Gladstone,, aged <71, • Mr. Gladstone was a director and former - govornor. of. tho Bank,-of-England, and' a ; director of the,' Peninsula • and Oriental ■ Steainship . Company. • '-' '. , Major William :Nunn.. ' ■' ■ Major Nunn was a Crimean and. Indian Mutiny veteran. He was one of the,force ■ that besieged and captured tucknow. Mr. R. Nisbit Bain, aged ' *| 1 , 0 ' waa assistant librarian'at the British Museum, wis a - well-known writer of history and an aothority on ■ bclavonjo _ and Scandinavian: literature. Ho translated ' a- -number of the: works of . AtaurnS' Jokai, the. Hungariannovelist; ■ Fleet-Engineier 0. A. Davfes, RiN. ■' Mr._.Dawes was a veteran 1 of the'Russiaii a™ Ouna wars. He. was emptoyed on . tho China_and East Coast.of Africa Sta- ; tions, at Dovonport and Jamaica. Keiftenant iN. Patterson, D.S.O. , .. : Lieutenant Patterson, 'whoso death resulted from an accident at Bareilly, India: served m tho South African War, wm ■ mentrtnod in dispatches; and granted tho