OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 577, 4 August 1909, Page 8

OBITUARY.

Tlie following obituary Dotioes; appcAr .t»' the!; "Standard of' Empire"'of; Juno;2s:~-V" Mr. Georgo Frederick Deacon, aged 65. i i A well-known civil engineer, and a mem« ■ ber of the Council of tho! Institution'- ,61 Civil' Engineers. He acted as assistant to Lord ' Kelvin on the' steamship Qroat Eastern in' tho. Atlantic;Teligraph. Expedition,; and was interested in several • tyg i water supply vschcmes, including t3io Liverpool supply from LakoVyrmyyV . ( The Hon., Chailcs' Edward Walsh, aged . . .' Mr., Walßli was -the seoond son of Lord . Ormathwaite. He tlio Dngado ill 1885 and was promoted-- captain, wind brevetrmajor' iii 1894; ■ Threo years. ' later he tobk part in tho Nilp Expedition' and was'.' present at the' action of Abu , Hamed. .Major Walsh had Chief , Con,of 'Radnbrsluire'; smcb'l9oo. General Harry M'Leod, aged 76. General M'Leod,'wlio died at La* Ferrief St. Saviour, Jersey, was: gazetted' to' tho ■ Madras' Artillery .in,1853. ' He' served in, the 'Afghan War .of 1878-9, 1 and received tbe mdal. '.He attained the rank of general in 1895,, and was'plaood on the unemployed supernumerary list in'tho'following , year." ■: ...■•• ■'•\ "• • Colonel Simon Conyers Scropo, aged 52. : Colonel, Scrape, was . the, head of ono ol . the. oldest and most famous, Norman fam- . iUes in English- liistory. In the. oouree' of • three centuries the Seropes ■ gave to tho nation tforeP' Archbishops; two Lord .Chali' ccllors, several carls, twenty barons, anc ... ■ five Knights of tho Garter. Lord Scropc ' in Richard-IPs time built , Bolton-'Castle, ■ in which Mary. Queen 1 pf Soots was oerated, under .the' custody of the -eleventh ..Lord Scropfe for seven,months. , ; Miss Lucy Field, aged 89. ; - Tho death of Miss Field at Hampsfc&'d t ro» moves an interesting 'link with tho, past,.' She was the' last of tho twelve children • born to the llev. Wiliiam Field, Indepen-* ,' dent minister, of Leam, Warwick. -Jlri Field,- wfio was born in 1769,' and died in 1850, was fourth in doscent' from Henry, son of Oliver Cromwell.'Ho. was tho nephew • of Mr. Oliver Cromwell, • clerki to .St. Thomas's Hospital,; wlio died in'lß2l, tin - last of the-Protector's male'descendants. Sir Andrew. Lusk, Bart., aged 99.... , , ■ ■ Sir Andrew was known as: "The Grand Old Man" of - tho Oity of London. ' Ho wai ' also tho oldest baronet in tho country. ' 'and as he had no issue tike title boctimei ~ extinct. 1 He'was Lord'Mayer• of! Londov I . in 1873-4/ and among' tho notable-, oventa of his year of office . was the visit of, the Czar, Alexander 11, who oanjo to-London on- 1 the occasion .'of tho; marriago of his only daughter; the Grand Duchesß Marie, to the Duke of, Edinburgh. For twenty years-Sir Andrew was Liberal-M.l. for • Finsbury. Lady Liisk, • hori"ji ■ of/great, 1 • age, survives her husbaKi 'V - >t- v \